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Show Toys and the Imagination. Since this is tho season of toy giving, giv-ing, the following remarks of Dr. Grace Peckham Murray, from tho Delineator, De-lineator, have a special interest: "The tendency of tho present time is to overload children with toys. Far from being a help to a "hlld, this defrauds de-frauds him. Ho should not have a surfeit of any of his senses. Toys can be made tho means of great development. develop-ment. They should be such as will aid tho Imagination and stimulate the Inventive faculty. Tho imagination of the child is his most precious faculty. fac-ulty. I cannot lament with a recent child of to-dny, who would rather have a piece of machinery or an electrical toy that he can pull to pieces and put together again than old-fashioned playthings. Rather ono should rejoice that the brain activity of children expends ex-pends itself on that which is useful. I have seen a boy's eyes sparklo-wlth enjoyment and Intelligent interest when, at ten years of age, he was working over an electric battery. His mind was grasping tho mysteries of .,l,..Mr, .llli n onronnsH that WOUld piij DiO 11" " have dono credit to an older mind. Tho point Is: Arouse tho children's minds and Imaginations through their games, their toys, to an interest in that which will be useful to them all their lives. Then there will not be need of so much cramming at school." |