GAMES.
Two paragraphs from a letter written bj a father to hit eon:—
"... I do not wish to put any difficulties in the way of your playing games, if you want to; at the same time, I should like you to know that I look on game players as those who have escaped from life. ... The extraordinary craze (it amount* to no less) for games at the "present day I attribute mainly to the restlessness and unhappinets of the world. They are an escape from uncongenial work, from worry, from nerveexciting labours. Too tired in mind* or overstrung in nerves, we seek the antidote of game* to take as out of ourselves simply because we are unfitted by our daily tasks to pursue any intelligent hobby.
"It may be necessarr to play games occasionally. They provide a healthy breathing space, as it were, in the dailv hustle. But dona make' them an end in themselves. They won't lead you anywhere, and are likely to prove a handicap* to your intellectual development by taking you out of the atmosphere of serious and consistent endeavour. ... An old fogey, am 1? Well, 1 ■peak from experience. Among our relatives are an eminent naturalist, a bold explorer, a pioneer of discovery, an original researcher in science, and half a dozen leaders of men. and none of c≥. oWfe? Ve". y «£ er « M, * U »» *• ■««*
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 6
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229GAMES. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 6
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