Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1915 — PLAY NECESSARY FOR CHILD [ARTICLE]

PLAY NECESSARY FOR CHILD

Moat important for Hia Proper Development. and There Bhould Be Safe Place* Provided. "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” Thus Zee ha ri ah in 520 B- C. But there were fewer motor cars in Zechariah's day than there are In oars. I The children now need, for their play, some place safer than the street, declares the Craftsman. More Important than the playground. however, la the play. It la well that children should play In a safe place, bat it is absolutely necessary that they should play somewhere if.they are to grow up at all. For there la no doubt now, I think. In the minds of educators that play builds the child. It ie the method that nature **»■ provided fry his development

Play Indeed is the positive side of the wbole phenomenon of infancy. The reason the higher animals, and man above all, are born so helpless and unformed is that they may be finished by this special method. It Is for the sake of play that infancy exists, that there is such a thing as a child at all. The child who is deprived of his chance to play la deprived of hi* opportunity to grow up.