What fun to watch children in their grotesque masks playing about at Halloween! Weeks ahead the tiny tots look forward to this day when they can don these disguises representing man and beast and go about from house to house suppressing giggles that would all too soon reveal the child behind the mask.
Have we not all watched the children troop into the corner shop and look over a table of masks? Peals of laughter fill the room as they peer through the funny faces at each other. No one would think of being frightened at a table piled high with ugly, funny, sad, fierce, or cunning faces —all made of paper, glue, and paint. No one is deceived as he views the heap of false faces, product of the manufacturer's fertile imagination.
But sometimes one meets a little friend in tears. He is taken by surprise. He sees only the ugly face. He does not look away from the terrifying features to what he really knows to be his playmate.
