GAMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1927, Page 3

GAMES.

Two paragraphs from a letter written by a father to his son: — “ . . . T do not wish to put any difficulties in the way of playing games, if you want to; at the same time, L should like you to know that I look on game players as those who have escaped from life. . . The extraordinary craze (it amounts to no less) lor games at the present day I attribute mainly to the restlessness and unhappiness <>) the world. They are an escape from uncongenial work, iron) worry, from nerve-exciting labours. ’loo tired in mind or overstrung in nerves, we seek the antidote of games to take us out of ourselves simply because we are unfitted by our daily tasks to pursue any intelligent bobby.

“It may tie necessary to play games occasionally. They provide a healthy breathing space, as it were, in tindaily hustle. But don’t make them an end in themselves. They won’t lead you anywhere, and are likely to prove a handicap to- your intellectual development by taking you out of the atmosphere of serious and consistent endeavour. - . An old fogey, am 1' Well, I speak from experience. Among our relatives are an eminent naturalist, a bold explorer, a pioneer of discovery, an original researcher in science, and a half dozen leaders of men, and none of them ever played any other game that the great Game of Life. Verb sap.”