Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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About tops, marbles, ball, hop-scotch, hoop-rolling, and such games I need say little, formost of them are played in much the same 300 CHILD LIFE IN GERMANY. (Fa manner as in this country. The only tops Isaw in Germany were whip-tops, which mustbe familiar to you all from old-fashioned pic-ture-books. Their games of ball would seem
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very tame to American boys. They neverhave developed any one great national game,like baseball or cricket; indeed, athletics havelittle hold in Germany, except in the matter ofpure gymnastics, such as involve the use ofparallel and horizontal bars, dumb-bells, leap- ing, etc. Baseball, football, cricket, and othermanly and invigorating sports, which arouse somuch enthusiasm here and in England, are al-most unknown in Germany. However, whatis lost in outdoorsports is made goodin a degree by theexcellent drill offrom one to threeyears in the army,which every able-bodied young manis obliged to under-go at about the ageof twenty. And now that wehave seen Hans andGretchen at someof their games, Ithink we may wellturn to see them atwork; for I supposethat is what most ofyou would call lifeat school. Certainlyit is work for theGerman children,for their hours inschool are longerand the tasks hard-er than yours. InGermany the lawrequires that everychild attend schoolfrom the age of sixup to fo

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