A Word to Parents About Games and Educational Amusements.
Systematic play is as important as systematic work. The best games and home amusements are as valuable to a child as school-studies; in fact, they bring out and stimulate qualities in a child, which no school-study can. Fascinating home amusements are as necessary as school-books.
Boys and girls like to be busy. Their amusements should be entered into as heartily, chosen as carefully, and purchased as willingly as school-books.
Games.—Jingo and Hustle-Ball are good games.
- They are interesting and full of action.
- They arouse a child's common-sense.
- They cultivate an ability to think rapidly, judge correctly, and decide quickly.
- They educate the eye and hand at the same time.
- They are very simple, and may be played at once.
Educational Amusements.—There is a peculiar fascination about Electricity and Magnetism, which makes these subjects appeal to every boy and girl.
There is nothing better than science studies, to teach children to observe and to see what they look at; besides, it is fun to experiment. "Fun With Electricity" and "Fun With Magnetism" are educational amusements. They contain fascinating experiments and are systematically arranged.