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McGhee collected the play preferences of 15,718 children, and found a very steady decline in running plays among girls from nine to eighteen, but a far more rapid rise in plays of chance from eleven to fifteen, and a very rapid rise from sixteen to eighteen.
The field of play is as wide as life and its varieties far outnumber those of industries and occupations in the census. Plays and games differ in seasons, sex, and age. McGhee has shown on the basis of some 8,000 children, that running plays are pretty constant for boys from six to seventeen, but that girls are always far behind boys and run steadily less from eight to eighteen.
When he did approach a group and listen, they seemed speaking of things foreign to him usually of people he did not know, their homes, their doings, their daughters and their fathers. They seemed to know people intimately who lived far away. "You mean the Smiths of Boston?" asked Miss Jones. "No, of Cleveland. They're not related." "I heard that McGhee of St.
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