Raising her butt with the carpet achieves many purposes. Perhaps the most important is that it gives the spanker a fairly good idea what areas of her rear end will be in contact with a wooden chair when she later must sit on it. He can then aim the blows so that she will still be squirming long after the spanking is over. And squirming conspicuously in front of others.
"...the girls are prepared in the reformatory’s punishment room, naked, lying on their backs on special benches, bound with their legs spread above their heads, shamefully showing the two holes usually hidden..."
Raising her butt with the carpet achieves many purposes. Perhaps the most important is that it gives the spanker a fairly good idea what areas of her rear end will be in contact with a wooden chair when she later must sit on it. He can then aim the blows so that she will still be squirming long after the spanking is over. And squirming conspicuously in front of others.
That is from a NuWest 8 1/2 x 5 1/2″ booklet about reform school spankings.