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can lift it with your finger. 
Practically noiseless. 
the characteristics of both in varying 
degrees. 
Using the terms bad and good in a 
conventional way, besides the boys 
who are habitually bad or habitually 
good are the boys who are intermit- 
tently bad and good; who try to con- 
form to urban requirements, and suc- 
ceed fairly well, but whose boy na- 
ture sometimes asserts itself and gets 
them into trouble. 
Then there are just average boys, 
who contrive to get a little fun out of 
life, even in the city; who never do 
anything very bad, but whose bodies 
and minds, never being subjected to 
any real tension, are flabby. They 
lack grit. These are the boys who 
clog the grammar and the high 
schools in every city. 
The tragedy in all this is reached 
when the city boy has lost his in- 
stinct for primitive sport, when his 
ear is deaf to the call of the wild. 
Workers among city boys have told 
us that this is the saddest thing they 
find,— children who do not know how 
to play. 
In view of what boys are, of na- 
ture’s provision for their growth, of 
the necessary interference of city life 
with those provisions, the first obliga- 
tion of a city to its boys appears to 
be to give them a chance to develop 
freely in accordance with the laws of 
nature without breaking the laws of 
man. 
In other words, every city is bound 
to furnish suitable and ample means 
by which its boys may grow physically 
into men without becoming criminals 
or even juvenile delinquents. Most 
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Any person wishing the use of 
large cities are beginning to recog- 
nize dimly this obligation and are 
making feeble and half-hearted at- 
tempts to fulfil it. A few playgrounds 
have been opened, here and there a 
free public gymnasium, a swimming 
tank or two, and some skating ponds. 
This is all that the largest cities have 
undertaken, and most cities have 
scarcely made a beginning. 
(Concluded in next issue.) 
May. Henry L. Hiccrnson’s GRAND- 
SON INJURED IN AN AUTO- 
MOBILE ACCIDENT. 
Henry Higginson, the to-year old 
son of A. H. Higginson of Lincoln, 
was run over by an automobile owned 
by George L. Batchelder of Marble- 
head Neck, near the entrance to 
Rockmere Inn, Gregory street, Mar- 
blehead, Wednesday noon. ‘The boy 
was playing near the street, and 
in some way got in front of 
the machine. The chauffeur did 
all he could to avoid the  acci- 
dent. One wheel of the auto passed 
over the boy. The little fellow was 
taken to the home of his mother at 
the home of W. Starling Burgess, his 
step father, and medical aid was 
called. Four doctors responded and 
they decided that an operation must 
be performed, and it was done at 
once. It was found out that the liver 
was ruptured. The operation was 
successful ,and there is every indica- 
tion that the boy will recover. 
Trying to quiet a fretting baby is 
a hard task, but trying to quiet an 
accusing conscience is a harder one. 
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Bae Heart peat 
Rev. Mark J. Sullivan, Pastor. 
Sunday Masses: 8.30 and 10.30 
a.m. Rosary and Benediction at 3.30 
p.m. Week-day Mass at the church 
at 7.30 a.m. 
Orthodox Cong’! Church. 
Sunday morning worship at 10.45. 
Sunday school, 12m. Evening wor- 
ship, 7.00. Prayer meeting ‘Tues- 
day, 7.30 p.m. 
Baptist Church. 
Rev. Theodore L. Frost, Minister. 
Sunday morning worship at 10.45. 
Bible school, 12 m. BYPU, 6.00, in 
the vestry. Evening worship, 7.00. 
Prayer meetings Tuesday and Friday 
evenings, 7.30. 
At the Congregational church Sun- 
day morning, the pastor will preach 
in the morning on “Readiness.” At 
the evening service Rev. John J. 
Walker, D.D., of Boston, will oc- 
cupy the pulpit. As Mr. Walker is 
an interesting speaker, it is hoped— 
that a large audience may gather to 
greet him. 
Next Tuesday evening, May 2nd, 
at 6:30 o’clock, the annual roll-call 
and supper of the Baptist church will 
be held. 
Rev. T. L. Frost will preach at the 
Baptist church Sunday, April 3oth, in 
the morning on “Shall We Give a 
Tenth”? and in the evening on “How 
to Become a Christian.” 
The Ministering Circle of King’s 
Daughters will meet on Monday eve- 
ning, May tst, with. Mrs. Anna Phil- 
lips. Topic: “Humility.” 
During the month of May, Har- 
mony Guild will meet on the second 
and fourth Mondays, May 8 and 
May 22, instead of the usual time. 
A mission worker in New Orleans 
was visiting a reformatory near that 
city not long ago when she observed: 
among the inmates an old acquain- ~ 
tance, a negro lad long thought to be 
a model of integrity. 
“Jim!” exclaimed the mission 
worker, “Is it possible I find you 
here?” 
“Yassum,” blithely responded the 
back-slider. “I’s charged with steal- 
in’ a barrel o’ sweet pertaters.” 
The visitor sighed. “You, Jim!” 
she repeated. “I am surprised!” 
“Yassum,” said Jim. “So was I, or 
I wouldn’t be here!” ; 
Extremes meet when the kitten 
plays with its tail. 
