Show homemakers AS PAGIE PAGE by maric at ogden og den on the subject of games for children angelo patri golump for the idaho daily statesman and other papers offers a bit of counsel as follows play is a childs business in life it means as much to him as his fathers business means to father and the family he goes about it with keen interest and lie he puts all he has into the game be it tag or IGI G men it were better not to make it G men I 1 am concerned about gun play because play is the introduction to all activity A child plays for about twelve years without any thought or idea of work gradually this play activity changes bits of work begin to show in the pattern he builds himself a hut she knits herself a scarf and weaves it into the play the game goes on because it is the childs life expression we after many years of living with children have come to believe that every activity that children practice merges into the next activity geving it quality and strength and direction to that end one would select values in games wherever possible gun games would set certain qualities in a childs attitudes and behavior and to my way of thinking those qualities are not what we his friends would choose for him and for those who might come under his hia influence when a small boy not so small i either considering his eleven years steals softly up behind an elderly woman his hostess and snaps a toy pistol behind her head who can call his behavior valuable when a group of sev j en year olds hide in the shrubbery and dash out yelling wildly at thel the riders on the bridle path frightening the horses and throwing a rider who can call their behavior valuable even decent children do not know the implications of their behavior beh avdor but the grown people who give them the toy guns and smile at their playing with them ought to understand I 1 der stand if they do not bad ma man ln 1 ners do lead to bad conduct and much trouble for the child and f family amily there are many good games f for or children of all ages there are balls racquet tees tools cameras fishing rods bats boards and boats the world is full of ways to happiness and joy and many of them are open to all children parents and friends who give children toy pistols guns uniforms that suggest guns and war and gangs knives to be carried in a sheath in the belt are responsible for whatever ill effects these things have upon the children and so society it is all very well to say that boys must be trained to use guns in defense of their country if that were true it does not apply to children at least in this coun try if all the guns pistols and swords in the world were gathered an one great junk pile and towed out to the deepest part of the sea and there interred with joyful anthems who would be hurt certainly not the children of the nations surely not the nations themselves men were given brains that they might use them for their own good and f for or the good of th the world some day they will us use them and discover that all guns toy and big bertha alike are foolish and evil on the subject of proper foo food and diet morton alexander speaks sneaks a truth as follows I 1 your life depends upon the iford food you eat your health your efficiency your well being all de pend on the food upon which you feed your body Is that food good or bad do you know Is it pure clean and wholesome or has it been processed denatured and preserved until its value has been destroyed destroy these are important facts for you to find out because fully one half of all food products offe offered for sale today have little or no actual food value they are merely waste materials which poison your body and hinder the natural processes Process ei of life you eat of this deficient food and decline in health you consult the doctors they give you an examination that means nothing and tells them nothing but it mystifies and pleases you and you pay well for it they give your ailment a mysterious name that pleases you more then they give you a shot of serum the composition of which you know nothing and that pleases you some more for all of this foolishness you pay well both in money and in health and you go to your grave many many years ahead of your time dr F homer curtiss voices opinion we agree to in the following words no sooner are great possessions pa sessions attained than they entail great anxiety to protect and preserve them hence great agitation instead of that tranquility of mind so necessary for happiness and once attained they no longer satisfy iff y this is amply proved by the lack of satisfaction the boredom and the unhappiness of many of those with great possessions also their loss often causes overwhelming wh elming sorrow orrow so why devote devot ones ones life to the attainment of that which may cause loss and sorrow wealth position and power are often fine aids to the expression of happiness if properly attained and used but if they are obtained through means that violate truth honesty virtue and good conduct they can never bring happiness only ultimate misery the acquisition of possessions or attainments w without I 1 t h 0 u t happiness only increases the thirst for more without bringing satisfaction |