CHILDREN’S MISSIONARY MAGAZINES

World WideAmerican Baptist Publication Society, Ford Bldg., Boston, Mass.
Over Sea and LandPres. Bd. For. Miss., 156 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Day StarWoman’s Bd. of For. Miss. Ref. Ch. in Am., 25 E. 22d St., N. Y.
Lutheran Boys and GirlsLutheran Board, 1424 Arch St., Phila.
Children’s Missionary FriendWoman’s For. Miss. Soc. of the M. E. Church, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
EverylandEveryland Publishing Co., 156 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

See magazines of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Boards.

See also Bibliography for Chapter I.

CHAPTER III.
THE CHILD AT PLAY AND AT WORK

“Boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.”

Questions concerning play and work—Two great movements, Playground movement and Child Labor movement—The importance of play—Children at play in Japan—Games known the world over—Children at play in Africa—In the desert—Why play stops so early in non-Christian lands—Need of the “Spirit of Play” in children and parents—The message of a doll—Child labor—Bedouin and African girls at work—Children at work in many lands—Child slavery—Rescue homes for slave children—Defective and dependent children—Orphans and orphanages—Famine waifs—Blind, deaf and dumb children—Homes for untainted children of lepers—A crime in the name of civilization—The Child in the Midst.


What is play?