Rural School Leaflet. 



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OUTDOOR SPORTS 



You hear that boy laughing? — You think he's all fun; 

 But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; 

 The children laugh loud as they troop at his call, 

 And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all! 



— Oliver Wendell Holmes 



A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or 

 she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though 

 another candle had been lighted. — Robert Louis Stevenson 



Every merry soul in the world is a far reaching influence. The spirit 

 of fun should be encouraged in the young folks about us. In the educa- 

 tional world to-day there 

 are two lines of develop- 

 ment that are being ser- 

 iously considered: The 

 industrial and the recre- 

 ational. It has been 

 stated that one of the 

 things that has led the 

 farm boy to seek the city 

 is that there was too 

 much work and too little 

 play in his life on the 

 farm. The subject is 

 worthy of consideration 

 by those who have the 

 interest of children at 

 heart. 



Educators throughout 

 the country are Irymg to 

 find the best means for 

 activity that will be of 

 a recreational character. 

 Experiments are being 



made along this line. The help of ever\^ teacher in the country is 

 requested. We want to encourage in the rural schools throughout the 

 land, some plays and games that shall be standard. There should be 

 play grounds connected with the rural school. There should be an 

 interest manifested by teachers and parents in the right kind of play. 



We are hoping that the games developed in the countn,', will be those 

 that include the many rather than the few ; good wholesome play in which 

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Fig. 46. — TJte snow man has a place in the lives of 

 children 



