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Professor McKeever says that rural play affords: (1) 

 better physical health and increased power to resist disease; 



(2) enlarged opportunities for the outlet of free activities 

 through the use of the hands and other parts of the body; 



(3) provisions against evil thoughts and deeds; (4) op- 

 portunities for getting along with one's fellows and for 

 learning to treat them with fairness and justice. 



HOME WORK. 

 Boy gathering the peas he has planted and tended. 



22. Work. Definite tasks must be assigned the older 

 children. And in no other occupation can children of all 

 ages receive such a stimulating uplift from a variety of 

 tasks as may be given on the farm. It is, however, just 

 as harmful for children to work too much as too little. 

 It is as bad to toil at tasks beyond their years as it is 

 to loaf. 



