Health and the school; a round table . Parsons what provisionhas been made for gratifying what Dr. Latta considersthe healthy roving instincts of boys? Miss Parsons.—The Boy Scout organization, withits hikes and camps, provides very successfully forthis instinct, as well as for many other perplexing in-stincts of boys between twelve and eighteen. Cross-country walking clubs are another means of supplyingboys with distance to cover. The Chicago PlaygroundAssociation has lately been carrying on interesting ex-periments with clubs of this sort. Mr. Martin.—What about the girls? They numberfour to
Health and the school; a round table . Parsons what provisionhas been made for gratifying what Dr. Latta considersthe healthy roving instincts of boys? Miss Parsons.—The Boy Scout organization, withits hikes and camps, provides very successfully forthis instinct, as well as for many other perplexing in-stincts of boys between twelve and eighteen. Cross-country walking clubs are another means of supplyingboys with distance to cover. The Chicago PlaygroundAssociation has lately been carrying on interesting ex-periments with clubs of this sort. Mr. Martin.—What about the girls? They numberfour to one in my family. Do the playgrounds takethem into special account, and has there been any or-ganization devised to serve them as the scout organiza-tion serves the boys? Miss Parsons.—You may well ask about the girls,for until lately their needs have been largely overlookedin favor of their more insistent brothers. In 1911 adirector of the New York Child Welfare Exhibit dis-covered that there was just twenty times as much or-. ON THE TOBOGGAN TO HEALTH. These Vermont children find full scope for their love of action onan inexpensive home-made slide.
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