Get a number of pictures of strange faces, such as you often see of a convention, or take them from magazines. Cut them apart and take five of these faces and observe them carefully. Make a deliberate effort to note any peculiarity of these faces or anything about them that will help you to identify them. Mix the five among the rest, now run through the entire group of pictures and see if you can, without hesitation, pick these five from the others. Practice until you can do this. Leave these five faces out of the group and select five more; observe these in the same manner. Now mix the last five with the large group and identify them as you did the first five. Now take the ten and shuffle them into the large group and identify them the second time. Divide the ten in the two original groups of five so that you have the first five and the second five separate. When several children are playing this game together a score may be kept. Mental operation becomes habitual and such practice will help the child form the habit of close observation of faces. The more difficulty he has in accomplishing this the more it shows his need of just such mental training. Let a week or so elapse and then go back to this same group of pictures and try the same exercise again, urge the child to look away once or twice and to make a real effort to build up his mind's eye picture. Have several sets of pictures of faces so that this exercise can be continued as often as possible. Progress by Practice To recognize people accurately and to be able to call by name is a wonderful asset in business or in social life. Your children can have this advantage if you will see to it that they realize its importance and make a deliberate effort while young. They will easily form the habit and thank you for it all their lives. The ideas and principles in this chapter should be studied by the parent and imparted to the child as he advances in years and becomes able to use them. Do not make the common error of waiting too long or expecting the child to get this for himself. We all like to have children remember our names as well as to have elders do so. The pictures which appear on the preceding pages were for the purpose of practice and should be learned. The Name Game Take the same pictures used in the Face Game, on page 116, and put the names of each on the back. Now learn the name of five, making good strong name pictures, use every idea suggested in the chapter. Review the five and learn five new ones, now review the ten, and follow this plan until you have learned not less than twenty names.