372 INDOOR RECREATION 



Suggested Projects. 



1. TO LEARN HOW TO BE A VENTRILOQUIST. 



2. TO BUILD A CANTILEVER BRIDGE WITH A MECCANO OUTFIT. 



3. TO LEARN TO PLAY SOME MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. 



4. TO LEARN TO SING OR TO TELL A STORY WELL. 



5. TO START A STAMP COLLECTION AND SPECIALIZE IN THE STAMPS 

 OF SOME ONE COUNTRY. 



6. TO LEARN TO DO ELECTROPLATING. 



The place of recreation in our lives. We hear a 

 great deal nowadays about the eight-hour day. The 

 average day of the working man or the business man or 

 woman should give eight hours for work, eight hours 

 for sleep, and eight hours for other duties of life, includ- 

 ing recreation. In our school day, even more time is 

 allowed for play. But much of this time is spent away 

 from home. We are getting far too fond of spending 

 time away from home, especially in the evenings. How 

 much better it would be for every boy and girl to feel 

 that two or three hours in the evening should be spent in 

 the family circle. Too many movies and not enough home 

 life are the choice of the average boy and girl of to-day. 

 We usually have access to the well-lighted reading room 

 of the public library. But nothing can take the place of 

 home, and the remembrance of the pleasant evenings spent 

 before the open fireplace, or playing games, or reading 

 around the comfortable lamp in the living room, should 

 be the heritage of every boy and girl who reads this book. 



Sound in relation to our home life. Have you ever 

 stopped to think what our home life would be without 

 sound? No mother's or father's voice, no conversation at 

 the table, no music, vocal or instrumental, no phonograph, 

 none of the hundreds of pleasant and interesting events 



