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Rh Your grandmother has the big sunny room upstairs where her knitting, her rocking chair, and her plants are. Your father never touches the things in your room. You would not think of taking his papers out of his desk. No one in the family would take any of your grandmother’s comforts.

If Uncle Sam could look into your home he would give you a term for this special family kindness. He would call it "respecting property rights."

There is another way in which your family keeps sale and happy. You all help each other. You carried your father’s luncheon down to the office the day that he had to do extra work and couldn’t come home. Your sister made the sandwiches, and packed the luncheon for him. You all helped your mother with the housework on Saturday morning, so that she could go to the park for a picnic with you in the afternoon.

Uncle Sam looks in your door again, smiles, and tells yon that he has brought you a long word this time. It means this working together, which he likes so much. "Coöperation," Uncle Sam says it is.

Perhaps you never thought of it but playing a game is a little like running a home in the right way. There is baseball. You know the rules of the game, and you keep them. You don’t play