. St. Nicholas [serial]. About tops, marbles, ball, hop-scotch, hoop-rolling, and such games I need say little, formost of them are played in much the same 300 CHILD LIFE IN GERMANY. [Fa manner as in this country. The only tops Isaw in Germany were whip-tops, which mustbe familiar to you all from old-fashioned pic-ture-books. Their games of ball would seem. very tame to American boys. They neverhave developed any one great national game,like baseball or cricket; indeed, athletics havelittle hold in Germany, except in the matter ofpure gymnastics, such as involve the use ofparallel and horizont
. St. Nicholas [serial]. About tops, marbles, ball, hop-scotch, hoop-rolling, and such games I need say little, formost of them are played in much the same 300 CHILD LIFE IN GERMANY. [Fa manner as in this country. The only tops Isaw in Germany were whip-tops, which mustbe familiar to you all from old-fashioned pic-ture-books. Their games of ball would seem. very tame to American boys. They neverhave developed any one great national game,like baseball or cricket; indeed, athletics havelittle hold in Germany, except in the matter ofpure gymnastics, such as involve the use ofparallel and horizontal bars, dumb-bells, leap- ing, etc. Baseball, football, cricket, and othermanly and invigorating sports, which arouse somuch enthusiasm here and in England, are al-most unknown in Germany. However, whatis lost in outdoorsports is made goodin a degree by theexcellent drill offrom one to threeyears in the army,which every able-bodied young manis obliged to under-go at about the ageof twenty. And now that wehave seen Hans andGretchen at someof their games, Ithink we may wellturn to see them atwork; for I supposethat is what most ofyou would call lifeat school. Certainlyit is work for theGerman children,for their hours inschool are longerand the tasks hard-er than yours. InGermany the lawrequires that everychild attend schoolfrom the age of sixup to fo
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