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Show Ue orOames. With tho young games are iuvnlna- " ' ble. says Entertainment. Children . will learn to playgames before they j cau road tho primed rules, and the events discussed on the cards of hlstnr-ical hlstnr-ical games become fixed in their minds long before they come to the history clnss in school. Tho pleasure of a game a child associates with tho facts learned in playing it, aud it is not a task to learn in that way. As for games for stakes, they are the good grain of our field that .lias been made into deadly spirits. The games ; aro good as the corn is good, but through misuse some have become; . poisonous. Wo would not abstain ' from corn-broad because whisky is a product of the grain; neither will I abstain from dominoes or other games ; because men have misused them; - . rather by their mire aud proper use 1 , . will build ou them for future beuelits "'' ' ' as I may. But games ore not the vork of life. At best they arc but play, and like condiments they must be used judiciously. judi-ciously. We should not let games of any sort interfere with the serious work of life with study, labor or bodily bod-ily rest. When the tired body is cry- ; ing for rest games have no claims on us, and wheu humanity is demanding our help amusements should be postponed. post-poned. Let us have games, but let us use them as we ought. They will help ' us to keep our faces turned toward the bright aide of life. |