ABSTRACT
One can always derive a fund of quiet amusement from listening to children at their play, and observing without being observed. “Let’s play shops,” or trains, or keeping house. “Let’s make believe,” well, practically anything. As preludes to the children’s play these may almost be regarded in the light of what one may term household phrases. But the times have a persistent and ineradicable habit of changing, and even juvenile pastimes have altered with the march of progress. As a sign of the times we live in at present, I may quote a remark I over-heard made by the youngsters of a friend of mine the other day. They had gone through a fairly lengthy programme of impromptu amusement, and had come to a temporary standstill. “And now,” said one of the elder children, smitten with a brilliant idea, “let us make cinema faces.” The cinematograph grin. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315855820/71384f26-5846-4544-b83c-87c4e14bded0/content/ufig6_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
