Identifier: playmovementitss00curt (find matches)
Title: The play movement and its significance
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Curtis, Henry S. (Henry Stoddard), b. 1870
Subjects: Play Playgrounds
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e streets apply better to Sunday than to any otherday, because on Sunday there are many idle, and it is justafter pay day. The police courts usually show a much largernumber of arrests on Sunday than on other days. Therecan be little doubt, but it is better for those who play thatthe grounds be open to them on Sunday afternoon. The basis of the objection, however, is not, as a rule, thatthese wicked people are going to be harmed, but thattheir play will detract from the church attendance and willlead to a general disregard for the Sabbath. There is another class of people who object to baseball onSunday because it is noisy and they wish the Sabbath quiet.Baseball certainly ought not to be played on Sunday in acongested portion of the city. THE PARK WATERS It is believed that the park waters, thus far, have not beenwell utilized. St. Louis has just created a stir by makinga cement swimming pool four hundred fifty feet long by threehundred feet broad. This is more than three acres and a
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Public Recreation 103 good-sized park lake as such lakes go. This pool has had theimmense use of nearly twelve thousand bathers per day dur-ing the summer of 1914. Cement pools of this size, however,are very costly, and we may well question if the cement isreally essential. Certainly most people would rather stepon sand than on cement, and sand at least is necessary inorder to keep down the mud in the lakes as they now exist.The pool with a sand bottom cannot be scrubbed down, ofcourse, but it is not certain that this is necessary in a poolwith a sand bottom. Such pools will consume a large amountof water, if it is to be changed often. But there is not thesame danger of infection from a pool that is open to the windand the rain and the sunlight that there is from an indoorpool. If the waters, or a part of them, were available forswimming, it would probably double the use of nearly allof the parks during the summer. In London men are allowed to swim in the open-air poolin Victoria Park

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