Excerpt from N. Y. State Hospitals Bulletin, Vol. 5: May 15, 1912 The only means by which we may interest our patients then is by the judicious employment of these two measures - work and play. Of these, work is the more important, for work possesses the element of material advancement and gain which play lacks. Work in that way appeals to another instinct - that of gain, of accumulating, of putting aside for to-morrow, of providing against the future. With the young, play in itself is sufficient. As age advances play becomes less important, and after middle age almost distasteful, and work becomes the dominating instinct. The lesson in this is that for the young we should provide more and a greater variety of amusements and less of monotonous work than for the older patients. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.