_Lutheran Boys and Girls_ Lutheran Board, 1424 Arch St., Phila. _Children’s Missionary Friend_ Woman’s For. Miss. Soc. of the M. E. Church, 581 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. _Everyland_ Everyland Publishing Co., 156 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. See magazines of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Boards. See also Bibliography for Chapter I. FOOTNOTES: [15] John L. Dube, Orange, Natal, _Missionary Review_, June, 1912, p. 410. [16] J. S. Dennis, “Chr. Miss. & Soc. Prog.,” vol. ii, p. 176. Revell. [17] Mrs. S. C. Perkins, “Home Life in China.” Pres. Wom. Bd. of Miss. [18] Mrs. O. W. Scott, “Child Life in Burma.” Wom. For. Miss. Soc. M. E. Ch. [19] _Life and Light_, Aug., 1912. [20] _Missionary Review_, June, 1912, Karl Kumm, F.R.G.S. [21] _Missionary Review of the World_, Oct., 1911. [22] Daniel McGilvary, “A Half Century among the Siamese and Lao.” Revell. [23] Mrs. C. M. Wherry in “Daylight in the Harem,” Revell. [24] M. Fadil, Atbara, in _Missionary Review_, Feb., 1912, p. 131. [25] Robert Moose, “Village Life in Korea.” Pub. House of M. E. Ch. Soc. [26] E. A. Lawrence, “Modern Missions in the East,” Chap. viii. Harper’s. [27] _The Continent_, April 17, 1913. CHAPTER III. THE CHILD AT PLAY AND AT WORK “Boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” Questions concerning play and work--Two great movements, Playground movement and Child Labor movement--The importance of play--Children at play in Japan--Games known the world over--Children at play in Africa--In the desert--Why play stops so early in non-Christian lands--Need of the “Spirit of Play” in children and parents--The message of a doll--Child labor--Bedouin and African girls at work--Children at work in many lands--Child slavery--Rescue homes for slave children--Defective and dependent children--Orphans and orphanages--Famine waifs--Blind, deaf and dumb children--Homes for untainted children of lepers--A crime in the name of civilization--The Child in the Midst. What is play? [Sidenote: How would you answer these questions?] What are the advantages and disadvantages of play? At what age would you wish your child to stop playing? What would be the physical and moral consequences to a child who practically stopped playing at or before the age of ten years? At what age would you advise that a child begin to work for commercial profit? If it is good for the children in whom you are interested to have time and opportunity for play, how far would the same rule hold good for other children in America? For children of other countries? Name the countries in which defective and dependent children may be neglected or overworked without danger to world-welfare.