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View of Scarboro' Beach Amusement Park, Queen Street East/Scarboro Beach Boulevard "Parents who believe babies can sleep in their arms, in a baby carriage or go-cart while they gad about with them at Hanlan's Point or Scarboro Beach Park will have a sorry awakening some day. But they will ascribe it to something else, not their own gross abuse of the baby. Most of our children do not get enough rest and sleep; rest should mean complete relaxation of the muscles, and a young babe should be in its bed before seven o'clock, and stay there till morning, except for necessary feeding and care. There is one thing our children do get enough of, and that is amusement; they get too much of the stimulating, exciting, and unhealthy kind of amusement. A child needs amusement, but of the simplest [kind] and largely in the nature of play. Moving-picture shows, band concerts, days and nights at Hanlan's Point, Scarboro Beach, the Midway at the Exhibition, and light operas at the theatre are making our children blasê before they are out of their 'teens, and giving them a weak, unstable, nervous system and a mushy sentiment which they dream is genuine feeling." Dr. W.E. Struthers |
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