Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — Playing in Clean Sand. [ARTICLE]

Playing in Clean Sand.

The spectacle pictured to our imagination by the dispatches which reported the President of the United States seated on a bench at Cape May making sand pies with his grandbabies prompts a suggestion to those who have authority over the children’s playgrounds in this city. There is nothing in which a child would rather play than sand. Given a dozen children and a pile of sand, and you have s situation more suggestive of * ‘interested contentment” than can be found anywhere else outside of a “Ladles’ Ice Cream Parlor.” And sand is cheapcheaper than dirt, as any mother who tries to keep her children clean can tell you. We. believe no inconsiderable expenditure of the public money kOuld be made which would at once gratify a greater number of parents and give joy to a greater number ol children than an expenditure for sand piles to be hauled to the several places in the oity where the children are permitted to play, and we believe that President Harrison, now that he has had some recent experience in paddling and mixing in sand, would approve such an expenditure.—Washington Post '