Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 15: Organ of the Priesthood Quorum, the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and the Schools of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1912 Articles on Work and Play intended to encourage young men and boys in self - reliance, develop their ingenuity, and their practical ability to do things along lines of activity that will reward them and at the same time enable them to have fun in the doing. Writings on Vocations and Industries, designed to awaken in boys and young men, desire and anxiety to ask, What line of work shall I adopt and prepare myself for to earn a living? Books and games have a value always, but there is a large field of joy in actually doing things. 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.