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Show -"X"k''X'.;..:...:.A..,.x...s. I Indulge in Some Kind cf Amusement : Br EDWINA MARY LAYMAN, Colorado ! Agricultural Collate, Fort Collin., Colo. Ferhaps you don't want to play, or you think you're too old, or you say you've forgotten how ! No one is too old, nor too stiff, no one "doesn't want to play," al- though there mav be a few who think they've forgotten how. All the sorrows in life may be helped to be eliminated by some active form of play or pleasure. ' It is good for man to play and for the farmer most of all ! You say that you do not need exercise, but that is a wrong impression, impres-sion, for your daily work tends to make you stiff and does not develop the fine, delicate muscles that bring ease, grace and bodily control. All active out-of-door games tend to this development. Why not play with your wife, with your children, with your neighbor and make the most of what there is in life for you ? For an hour after supper take time to play tennis, baseball, volley ball or some form of amusement in which you are particularly particu-larly interested. Your work will hold a keener joy for you, for you will have unconsciously acquired the attitude of play toward it. You can never take wealth nor material possessions with you when you leave this world, but you can give to it and gain from it much of pleasure in the pure enjoyment of the good and happy things of life. "We were made to be happy, and the greatest material happiness comes through the enjoyment of some form of recreative sport, after a day of good work-well work-well done. 1 Don't sit on the side lines and watch ! Come into the open and play ! Drop your work for a few moments every day and play with your children, for verily a little child shall lead you back into that long-forgotten kingdom king-dom of early joya and greatest of opportunities, your youth and all it held for you. |