Heaps of sea sand are placed, at public cost, in the parks and squares of Berlin, where the German children sport under the general supervision of the police. So excellent an example was followed recently in Boston, where the Massachusetts Emergency and Hygienic Association provided seven such play-grounds. Writing of the pleasant outcome of the small investment for this and other out-door recreation in the interest of the city poor, a correspondent of The Worcester Spy says:

"The ladies started the movemeat, the school committee gave the use of the school-yards, the public contributed the money, and reliable, motherly women were employed four days in the week to matronize the little folk. It was a pretty sight to see these children, doomed to spend the summer in town, playing with shovels and pails in the sand, whose fascination was unending. Others were playing horse with worsted reins, or tossing bean bags, skipping rope, and playing ball. If a different set had come every day, it is calculated that the matrons would have entertained almost 130,-000 children. Now and then a basket of flowers would be contributed, so that each child went home with a nosegay. This season it is hoped the contributions will be sufficiently generous to establish twenty sand gardens and extend the benefits".