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Show H Toys and the Imagination. H Sinco tbis is tbo season of toy- H giving, the following remarks of Dr. H . Grace Peokham Murray, from the H Decombor "Dollueator," have a H- special luterest: H "Tho tendency of the prosant timo H is to overload children with toys. H Far from being a help to aobild, tblB H. dofrauds bim. Ho shuold not havo H a surfeit of any of his souses. ToyB H can be mado tbo moaus of great do H volopmont. They should bo such H as will aid tho imagination and H stimulato tho invontativo faculty. H Tho imagination of tbo obild Is bia H moat preoious faculty. I cannot H lament with a recent writer tho mon- H tal activity of tho child of to-day, H who would rathor havo a piooo of H machinery or on oloctrical toy that H ho can pull to pieces and put to- B Rctber again than old fashioned play- H tkings. Rather ouo should rejoice H that tbo brain activity of children H expends itsolf on that which is uajful. H I havo seen a boy's eyes sparkle with H enjoyment and Intelligent luterest B when, at ten years of age, bo was M working mvt cs electric battory. H His mind was grasping laystorioa of m physios with a suroneaa that would B have dono credit to an older mind. H The point is: arouse the children's m minds and imaginations through their m games, their'toys, to an interest in H tbat which will be useful to them all B their lives. TheM there will not bo H ' sd of o anion cramming at school." LLB ILBL 4 |