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Show WHY DON'T YOU PLAY? Lm i When Edward Bok, noted editor. i- Lm 1 f tired from business, he did so at laid !, TO PLAT, Plnylng. to him. meant . I ii "Cullivatlnj; diversion?, more time for j jt Rood friends, fine spnrtsmnnhlp. Rood I 'jjtf henlth. and the sal isfart ion of his J 1 f stored-up lonclncM and dream of nian Lm I 1 years, " years when business did not Lm j j plve him leisure to play. ; jjj But he is one of the few persons Lm J i who ran drop work to take up )lay, all Hp' 0&X) retire from business. To the bH ffl great majority this Is Impossible. Bui jjj It ought not be Impossible to take oTf BR; some hours of every day to play, gjlj We ean be wise, within the limits of Intic business. We ran play. In our leisure ijn 1imo, sensibly, profitably. Piny I to flfSs day being preached never before. PaaaaaVflli s nn'(' M ,nr Rrent national tonic, k(H n medicine. Walter Camp urges one kind of phiy Hl regular health exercise. To Sir Kd- sHBHu ward Grey, fishing and hUDUDg are in Htf uispensaoio. HBR field Marshal Halg withdrew in the HH midst of intolerable pressure on the saaaaHlu western front, from time to time, and Hffjfl played golf on the quiet links of gtgfl 'iff France. Hjjjl If Halg could do that, why must you sHHiH keep your nose to the grindstone all sHBilii! lno t'm jtH TBeodore Roosevelt played. Hurd LHHWlB Ing doe?. Wils?!) plays, when his Hffjj health permits. Burroughs, and Ford. sHVillfl nt Edison PlA don't you? Bur all these men do something H themselves when lbe BM They are not content to sit don BH nnd watch a Kuib or a D( mpeey. or 10 1 follow a Chick Evnns about the links, 1 or Man o' War going round the track. H They play nctively themselves. J I .abor savinp devices, shorter hours. J the closed RalOOU are producing 1 leisure time in ull our lives. In gtHlgflfl liy of 35.000 there are four limes I t many leisure hour1. HH How will thej be spent ' In w?iai tHHiB kind of play, or diversions, or satisfsc sHHftw tions or hobbles? tUH'lili A national organization, called Com tLS sm munity Service, with bead,quarteri in m iSsfl New York, has been organized q I hK slst communities all over the country sUH ufi "ut nto tne 'e'sure hours of life sHHH I J Si abundant chances for all the people jffj to enjoy life with play and profil AH work and no play make Jack a sHi'lm rlu" ,nnn' It, too. maketfa gH nil of JDl R mlht' ,lu11 H(1 ' |