The Tamarack is a rapid growing tree and on account of its spiral 

 shape and its beauty of foliage during spring and summer, it makes a 

 fine tree for ornamentation. 



"The evergreens are of peculiar beauty during the winter season 

 when all things seem desolate and dreary and the ground is covered 

 with a white mantle of snow. Then it is that they remind us not only 

 of the life to come with returning spring, but also of the endless life 

 hereafter." 



PLAY AND RECREATION THE SALVATION OF A NATION 



Play and recreation are as essential to the proper development of 

 man as is work. Work alone with no allowance for unproductive ef- 

 fort, prevents the normal growth of the body and a sweet-spirited 



mental develop- 

 ment. Real hard 

 work is absolute- 

 ly necessary to 

 perform our 

 function in this 

 world, but work 

 alone sours the 

 individual. 

 Proper alterna- 

 tives of work 

 and play make 

 middle aged peo- 

 ple young and 

 old people sym- 

 pathetic with the 

 children. 



A nation's or a community's decay is in part shown by the absence 

 of play at school, and games and pastimes at home. The father who 

 makes cornstalk fiddles, little water wheels, whirligigs, spool tops, and 

 hot-air paper spirals to hang over the old cook stove, is getting pretty 

 close to the "happy corner" in the home; and the mother who plays 

 "I Spy," and "Fly away Jack, Fly away Jill" with spool labels, and 

 who assists with doll dressing and taffy pulling, helps to add to the I 

 word "mother" much that will make it a dearer word in the home. 



The teacher who enters into the games at school makes his school a 

 more potent factor for good citizenship. Character will be developed 

 in truth telling, a respect for the rights of others, the performance of 

 duty, and an obedience to the will of the many. No new-fangled nor 

 greatly modified games are needed just common, old fashioned "two 



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Game of Fox and Geese. 

 (From "On the Farm." Used by permission D. Appleton Co.) 



