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But I do reommend some game or games as part of recreation. As long as I could see to play and had sufficient leisure. I enjoyed immensely the game of real or court tennis, a very ancient game, requiring activity as well as skill, a game in which Americans may take interest and some pride, because for the first time, at any rate in the recent history of the game, an amateur is champion of the world and that amateur is an American. The English are sometimes criticized for paying too much attention to games. Football is a national game in America as well as in England but I do not suppose that either You or We think that our soldiers fought any worse in the war of having been fond of football. I put games definitely as a desirable part of recreation and I would say : have one or more games of which you are fond but let them at any rate in youth be games which test the stamina, the staying power and the activity of the whole body, as well as skill.

Sport shall be mentioned next. I have had a liking for more than one form of sport but an actual passion for salmon and trout fishing.Salmon fishing as I have enjoyed it, fishing is not from a boat but from one's feet either on the bank or wading deep in the stream, is a glorious sustained exercise for the whole body, as well as being an exciting sport; but many of my friends do not care for it. To them I say, as one who was fond of George Meredith's novels once said to a man who complained that he could not read them, 'Why should you?' If you do not care for fishing , do not fish. Why should you? But if We are to be on equal terms and you are to be on the same happy level as I have been, then find something for yourself which You like as much as I like fishing.

There are many other subjects for recreation. I cannot even mention them all, much less discuss any of them adequately. But I must mention for a high place in recreation the pleasure of gardening, If You are fond of it: Bacon says, ' God Almighty first planted a garden and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures'. The more you develop it and the more you know about it, the more absorbing is the interest of it.

I recommend games as part of recreation in leisure. I enjoyed immensely the active and skillful game of tennis in which Americans feel some pride since for the first time in the history an amateur American won the championship. The English are sometimes criticized for paying too much attention to games. Have one or more games you are fond of and let them test the stamina, the staying power and the activity of the body with skill.

In Sport I have an actual passion for fishing. Fishing from one's feet either on the bank or wading deep in the stream is a sustained exercise for the whole body and an exciting sport. If you want to be a much happy as I have been, then find something of your interest.

Other subject for recreation is gardening, the purest of human pleasures. The more you develop it and know about it, the more absorbing is the interest of it.