From Charities and the Commons, promoting the benefits of outdoor play and public playgrounds.

Elmer Elsworth Brown, United States Commissioner of Education

This pamphlet provides recommendations for safer celebratory traditions for the Fourth of July.

August H. Brunner, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A model aimed for use by various institutions that provide asylum to orphaned children and struggling mothers, including temporary receiving homes into which mothers who might otherwise abandon their children are received with them. The model is designed to exhibited the chief sanitary features which the medical profession recognize as essential to success in saving the lives and improving the vitality of the babies who must have institutional care temporarily.

Including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. Compiled under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis by Philip P. Jacobs.

From the Introduction: “The development of the anti-tuberculosis activity in the United States during the last ten years has been so rapid and the extension of its field so varied that the need of a comprehensive survey of the work is obvious. A similar situation was met in 1904 by the appearance of the ‘Directory of Institutions Dealing with Tuberculosis’ compiled by Miss Lilian Brandt and published by the New York Charity Organization Society in cooperation with the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The present volume includes a revision of that directory as an important section of its contents.”

The purpose of this handbook is to suggest activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of information about them. The material is arranged in such a way as to serve readily community-center officials who view problems of organization objectively, who regard themselves as trustees of certain spaces and facilities in a school building which they are to utilize for the enhancement of the neighborhood’s common life.

Clarence Arthur Perry, Department of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation

A selection from the papers written by Mary E. Richmond, edited with biographical notes by Joanna C. Colcord, director of the Charity Organization Department, Russell Sage Foundation, and Ruth Z.S. Mann.

MARY E. RICHMOND was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Prepared by the Committee on Independence Day Celebrations of the Art Department, New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Reprinted by the Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

From the Preface: “The importance of a ‘safe and sane’ Independence Day needs no argument. The aim of this booklet is to offer to those who are seeking material for such an occasion, gleanings from the experience of others who have achieved success in this direction, and to assist any who desire to arrange suitable pageantry in finding amid the treasures of New Jersey history scenes appropriate for representation.”

A report on the adoption of the Transportation Agreement, with contributions from Alexander M. Wilson, assistant director of the Department of Public Health and Charities of Philadelphia; Mabel Tibbot, overseer of the poor, Fort Dodge, Iowa; George S. Wilson, secretary of the Board of Charities, District of Columbia; and the State Board of Charities of Missouri, in a “Letter of Advice to County Courts.”

A look at athletic exercises promoted by the Girls’ Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League, including folk dancing, relays, and athletic competitions. From the Playground Association Committee of America.

A survey by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation, the result of field investigations on vital statistics carried out between March and May, 1914, supplemented by co-operative efforts by city and state officials and local volunteer workers.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.