Throughout the entire country there is at last rising a wave of enthusiasm in behalf of affording the child a better means of play. First the cities took the matter up, then the towns, and now the country districts are beginning to do their part. The farmer and his wife should feel an interest in such a matter, for they can render no better service to their community than that of joining the district teacher in an effort to equip the school grounds with play apparatus. As a suggestive outline of what materials to procure, the dimensions and cost of the same, there is given below the equipment worked out by certain officials in Colorado and described briefly in Superintendent Fairchild's report, as follows:-- A turning pole for boys may be made by setting two posts in the ground, six or eight feet apart, and running a 1 or 1-1/4 inch gas pipe through holes bored in the tops of the posts. The cost of such a piece of apparatus should be as follows, assuming that the necessary work will be done by the teachers and boys: Two posts, 4" x 4", 8 ft. long, 50 cents; one piece gas pipe, 8 ft. long, 15 cents. Teeter boards may be made by planting posts ten or twelve feet apart, and placing a pole or a rounded 6 x 6 on top of them, and then placing boards, upon which the children may teeter. Individual teeter boards may be made by placing a 2 x 8 board in the ground, and fastening the teeter board to it by means of iron braces placed on each side of the upright piece. The cost of the above apparatus would be, for several teeters: Two upright posts, 6" x 6", 5 ft. long, 93 cents; one piece, 6" x 6", 12 ft. long, $1.22; four teeter boards, 2" x 8", 14 ft. long, $2.50. For individual teeter: One piece 2" x 8", 16 ft. long, 56 cents--to make upright piece 4 ft. long and teeter board 12 ft. long; two iron braces and four large screws, 25 cents. A very attractive and desirable piece of apparatus may be made as follows: Secure a pole about ten or fifteen feet long. To the small end attach by the use of bolts one end of a wagon axle, spindle up. Upon the spindle place a wagon wheel, and to the wheel attach ropes, about as long as the pole. Place the big end of the pole in the ground three or four feet, and brace it from the four points of the compass. The ropes will hang down from the wheel in such a way that the children may take hold of them, swing, jump, and run around the pole. The one described was rather inexpensive. A telephone company donated a discarded pole, a farmer a discarded wagon wheel and axle. The only expense was that of paying a blacksmith for attaching the wheel to the pole and the cost of the ropes--about $2. It furnished one of the most attractive pieces of apparatus on the playground.