Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-13 | Page 11 | Kids and Their Playground

KIDS AND A ND THEIR PLAYGROUND PLA 0 UND UNDA I IThe A t n nt f t I S r t a av FL v y ii I ir c j i rL 7 I II I The laco everybody has a good time timo HE playground movement which T THE has received sueh such an impetus within tho past post few years is no longer considered a n fad but an actual necos necessity sity to every well organized org municipality Tho The lives of hundreds hundred of ot children chil children children dren have hao been saved ed through the ef efforts efforts forts torts of philanthropists and civic or by boosting tho the playground play playground ground Idea Ideo In r New Mew ew York City alone thousands of children may be soon scon at the tho th various playgrounds enjoying tho the summer months as WI only boys and girls can on en Joy an outing Wore Were It not for the tho playgrounds provided by public and private funds these children would be forced to exist throughout the sum sumI I I mer months in back k alleys and third floors of ot tenements whore wh ro sunlight is almost unknown and filth prevails In tho the playgrounds on any hot afternoon Joy runs riot and many man an elder older per Pr person person son is refreshed and his life made happier by watching tho the children at play pla New York Tork Is only typical of or tho the thousands of ot cities in which play grounds are arc afforded the children I