Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1919 — Childhood’s Energy. [ARTICLE]

Childhood’s Energy.

Laziness is an adult vice. Children are almost never lazy. Little children do not want to play; they want to work. Toys are their tools —the objects they use in trying to exercise their faculties in imitation of their elders. Time out of mind the most popular toys have been those that best satisfied this impulse—a doll that the tot can mother, blocks to build houses of. and so on. A top appeals because the child can make it go. The ans* an<J the*little busy bee havejiothing on a company of smalbchildren engaged in digging a canal through the sand on the beach< —Saturday Evening Post.