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Games For All Occasions, by Mary E. Blain
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Title: Games For All Occasions
Author: Mary E. Blain
Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24597]
Language: English
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GAMES FOR ALL OCCASIONS
BY MARY E. BLAIN
CHICAGO BREWER, BARSE & CO.
Copyright, 1909 By Brewer, Barse & Co.
PREFACE
"A Merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance."
The desire to play and frolic seems to be a heritage of mankind. In infancy and early childhood this joy and exuberance of spirit is given full sway. In youth, that effervescent stage of human existence, "joy is unconfined." But in middle age and later life we are prone to stifle this wholesome atmosphere of happiness, with care and worry and perhaps, when a vexed or worried feeling has been allowed to control us, even forbid the children to play at that t