Excerpt from It Is to Laugh: A Book of Games and Stunts Amos R. Wells said, Recreation is re-creation, or a re-fashioning of the soul in the image of God wherein it was created. Real recreation is just that. All through the war every effort was made to fill the leisure time of soldiers and sailors with recreation rather than dissipation, the kind of recreation that made leisure time an asset rather than a liability. Since the war, with the great impetus it gave the movement, recreation work in churches, in communities, in schools, and in almost every kind of social service work, has been put on the same construc tive basis, and it is being looked upon not merely as a side issue or as entertainment, but rather is re spected as one of the most vital forces for a re-fashion ing of souls in the image of God wherein they were created. 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.