Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . evil suggestions and utterlydesert them in one of the strongest passions of the humanrace, that of the drama. Why do boys play Indian, cowboysand robbers? A group of Sharpsburg boys were arrested andbrought to the juvenile court. They had formed a club ofoutlaws, elected a chief, who wore a mysterious and awe-in-spiring decoration, and they tried to carry out the practicalside of their profession. This was the unsupervised form ofa play of which the Childrens Theatre of New York is thesupervised. The police and criminal courts a
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . evil suggestions and utterlydesert them in one of the strongest passions of the humanrace, that of the drama. Why do boys play Indian, cowboysand robbers? A group of Sharpsburg boys were arrested andbrought to the juvenile court. They had formed a club ofoutlaws, elected a chief, who wore a mysterious and awe-in-spiring decoration, and they tried to carry out the practicalside of their profession. This was the unsupervised form ofa play of which the Childrens Theatre of New York is thesupervised. The police and criminal courts are full of cases of mis-directed rivalry and competition, the right expression of whichhas meant so much to the world. Boy gangs stoning and WHY TEACH A CHILD TO PLAY? 269 knifing each* other are unsupervised rivalry play, organizedgames the supervised. There is hardly anything finer in thesocial relations of men than the spirit of true sportsmanshipthat despises an unmerited advantage and that is master ofvictory and of defeat. Chivalry developed contemporane-. THE BOYS WAND DRILL A Valuable Form o«f Exercise Common in the Modern School Gymnasium ously with the tournament and the joust. The evils of schooland college sports are plainly due to lack of right supervised play only do boys learn best the double lessonof how to bear defeat and how to temper victory. Not long since, a gang of boys, fourteen in number, werearrested in Pittsburg and taken to the police station in a pa-trol wagon, because they had gathered together and were
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