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Show pi!eas for tieplayground soy bnd Olrla If thl ctlaal 8h uld , I Have' Their) Public;' Placea V of 'Recreatlan. , j llerr rnicliel. In "The, Muratlnn 'of Map." any: ' I ) 1 "Kvcry town ahnuld bfiva fit own common iln ground for Ihe boya. filurlfiua reault would t-nme from Ihla for the rnllre community. 'For at thl period gainia. whenever It, tea feaalhle. are .common, gud lima develnpl tlx feeling and deefra fof comniiinlt j aud the law nnd rrqulreinvnta nf rominti nlty. The buy trie lo aee blniaell In hla comptinlona, to feel hlmt-elf In them, to weigh and metmnre hluiHelt by them, tn know nnd find blinaelf with thnjr help. ThiiaVho fliuitu ill reetry Inhuenee and eduratu the boy for life, awnken nnd cnltWnie many civil ttnd moral virtue. From the euaiern part of our conn try come an eloquent pica for lb tendeut of playground nt IMIIaburg. trndetlt. of plnygniiinda' al ritlaburgh, virltna:' ' FY ran (lie Juvenllo court, ffnni prleotfb, from tioapitnl, friuu Indent rf laoclivl 'evil, friun every department of r1ofie devoted to lb ludy of mini, come rbe naming thai In our Dny, a In no other day, Hie world lata yl aeun; we need In nur great rllle tn give heed lo the nntui and aplrlt of ntilblliond anil youth and lo Ihe right of the people In hnptd mil. Hoclety hna not ao much for gotten a II ha fulled lo reullte In lhe atrenunua day of mnterlnllam how much miodern cltyi and am-Utl condttlona are making void for many a fundamental tenet of our national creed.. In tb boya and (Irla of the treeta, In the deHmiuent, the fallrn, tha outeaat, the utiutK-t-aaful and the mlaflt there I Ihe rain bunker for happlneea that ! our own Hut If Ibat hunger roual be attllKfled In the one or two or throe-roomed home of Iha tenement. In Ihe at reel, nlekehr deon, cheap theater, aaloon or public danca hall, or nnt at all, who ran wonder at Individual ruin or aoclal dlaaaierr |