The Playwork Book

THE PLAYWORK BOOK
BY ANN MACBETH
WITH 114 DIAGRAMS
NEW YORK Robert M. McBride & Company 1918

Printed in the United States of America
Published October, 1918


Far enough below the surface, in every one of us there lives, very often almost forgotten, the child, who, like Peter Pan, never grows up. It is this everlasting child in us that keeps the keys which open for each his Kingdom of Heaven, and sad it is for those of us who have lost sight of the keeper of the keys. The sweetest and loveliest things in our lives are the simplest things. They do not abide in the excitable enjoyment of luxuries and entertainments to be bought with money; they lie in the living and eternal interest of the homeliest things of daily life, wherever people are simple, and sincere of heart, and full of loving, kindly thought and care for the concerns of others; where people do things themselves instead of paying for them to be done; where wealth is counted in love, in thoughtfulness, and in interest in other people, and not in many possessions. These things are the heritage of all children, and we are happy if we can carry our heritage with us through our life; for this indeed is to be of the Kingdom of Heaven.