Show HOME nOME EDUCATION CLEAN PLAY Lorena Daniel Damel Solberg Neighbors cant can't always ways be deaf and brind so one spring day I could not help overhearing and seeing a little episode that was as bem being enact enact- enacted enact led ed next door to tile rape me The y sard and ard seem seem- seemed seemed seem ed to be overflowing o with little up- up to up-to up sixes There were bang ban bangs bang from toy pistols whang of home made swords cries of For ward For I ward march and Shoot that Ger Ger- German Ger- Ger German German man A miniature war was being carried on with surprising realism I Soon the kitchen door opened and anda a young mother called Come chil chil- chil children children dren lets let's play something else Bob Bob- Bobby Bobby Bobby by and Betty are not allowed aU owed to play war nor to point puns guns ns War and guns make people unhappy you know and we want to make people happy Here you may have ha this corner of the yard aU all to yourselves an and Betty Detty and Bob Bob- by Bobby have some spades and shovels and Ill I'll get some old spoons so everyone can have something to dig with Andover And Andover over 0 er there s a pile of lumber ends which Daddy brou brought ht home just for you children to things with All AU right shouted Mi h Former Commander Lets make mahe roads an railroads an signs an Yeth thin thir An Ive I've dot a tar m in I my shouted a wee red had And Ill I'll build a bridge and put a anver anver river nver under it Bobby said and Bet Det- ty Betty Detty added added Mother lets us have water if we are arc careful happy You never s siw w tw such i 1 busy hap j hap hap- ban ban- py mud d group of or hil dren callS lor came came- from the nearby houses the chIldren left reluctantly and with promises to hurry right back before the river went ent dry i J Through the kitchen inflow I 1 saw Bobb Bobby and Betty scrubbed clean and radiantly happy eating lunch with evident relish From another house I hear heard a mothers mother's angry words about your clothes filthy clothes filthy a childs child's and attempted explanatIon about bridges es and rivers After rIvers After lunch Boddy Betty andon and on- on only on only ly on other continued the road and river and river making In the other yard the the- war the war was resumed varied only wIth robberies hold ups and jail And I could not help reflectIng that on the one side of me were dirty chIldren at wholesome play constructive constructIve constructIve- play on the other Side ere cre clean I children at unwholesome destructive play With the one the dirt t was as note not e even een en skin deep and co could ld not goIn goin go in with the other the dirt dirt rt was as on the inside and would oco e a out Both those mothers b ll in clean pla play i |