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Carpet beater
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A carpet beater is an instrument used to beat the dust out of (area, not fitted) carpets.
Carpet beaters were frequently used in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. In all houses, people used to have a carpet beater before the vaccum cleaner appeared. Beaters came in many designs, but most looked like a big fly swatter, made of rattan or willow, designed to give whipping blows to chase out the dust without doing damage to the carpet.
That made it also popular for corporal punishment. The carpet beater served in a similar way to beat the dust out of the pants of naughty children, without doing much damage. Boys would have their pants dusted for the things that now make your mother very mad at you. Mother smacked your shorts, not hard enough so it didn’t whip. That looked bad but didn’t really hurt. If you grew older and did something very naughty, she handed the carpet beater to father. Your pants stripped down, father made it whip across your bare buttocks. You need to be a man to hit the bare buttocks with a carpet beater really hard.
The following excerpt is from a Dutchman, born in 1923 and writing for his grandchildren about life as a child before the war:
"When I was seven, I ruined my new shoes by playing soccer. New leather shoes were expensive, and I had to go on wearing them. Coming back from school, I had thrown them in the canal in a fit of anger. Now they HAD to buy me new shoes.
I had to get the carpet beater, which hung outside to keep it supple. Knowing the carpet beater from mama, I was not terribly afraid. But I had to hand the carpet beater to daddy, not to mama, and it was daddy who took me in the kitchen, and ordered to lower my shorts. I never had to do this before.
I got seven, the maximum (one per year). He took me firmly by my arm, and swung the carpet beater against my seat. At the first stroke, my whole seat was burning. The next one, covering burning skin, was a lot worse. From the third, the pain was unspeakable. You instinctively tried to back away, which made it worse as it allowed for a better swing. I felt the burning till I fell asleep. Till two or three days after, I could feel I was spanked badly when sitting down. I remembered it for the rest of my youth.
You boasted about having had the carpet beater on the bare from your father, as it gave you high status as a tough boy. But you didn’t care to repeat the experience: mentioning the carpet beater was enough to make most boys behave."
