JOYS OF LOST CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 10

JOYS OF LOST CHILDREN

YARMOUTH HOSPITALITY. The children who crowd to Yarmouth sands each ' year, bringing their parents with them, have discovered that one of the delights of thiß pleasure-town by tho sea is to get lost. As a holiday -hobby it grows in favour every year. "Tho fact was forced on my notice," says * London correspondent, " when a little mite accosted me near the Wellington Pier. Expecting the usual requests, I said at once, 'I have no cigarette pictures, and the time, is just half-past twelve.' '"But Tyo lost mummy and daddy/ was tho disconcerting reply. 'Please find them.' "To be thus asked, at a moment's notice, to tinker with the mysterious machinery of fate was rather a bigger order than I had leisure to undertake, so I explained tho matter to a passing constable. "'Oh, that'll bo all right/ he said, cheerfully. ' I'll just take him along to the tent.' "'We formed up in procession, an* soon my new friend was playing happily in a tent on the sands. Outside hung m board with the words, 'Lost Children." ' All the visitors know thiß tent/ euid the constable. 'He'll soon be claimed.' " It appears that in bank holiday weak sixty lost children were brought to tho tent. If they are not claimed at closing time they are taken to tho police station, which ib a treat. Sweets and buns appear in a wonderful manner, and chil» dren are often very sorry to leave th« fun and hospitality that the police pro vide. Altogether • Yarmouth is a very good place for a child to be lost in.