Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-10-23 | Page 17 | Let's Explore Hour Mind

Lets Let's 5 Explore Your Y our Mind Min Are There More Happy Marriages Today Than Ever Before By Albert Edward Wiggam Answer to Question No 1 1 I fully agree Several highly highly highly high high- ly reliable studies of the intimate Intimate intimate Inti inti- mate lives of large groups of married couples agree gree that at t least three three fourths fourths are happily married One study found 87 81 per cent stated they were unqualifiedly unqualifiedly unqualifiedly un 1 qualifiedly happy I feel sure i that would not have been the case 50 or years ago First young people did not know more than half a dozen of the opposite opposite opposite site sex to choose from Now it is surely an unsociable person person person per per- son who does not know at least leasta j ja a hundred young people get far better acquainted with each other before marriage And the future will see lee still greater improvement b because cause 1 of all the courses on marriage being given in high schools and colleges over the country Answer to Question No 2 1 2 No Not t always Dr Knight Dunlap psychologist is originator origins origins- 1 tor of what he calls negative practice for overcoming bad habits that habits that is practicing them for a short time to excess He has say to themselves for several weeks I 1 am going to perfect my stuttering stuttering stuttering-be- be become come a champion Strange to say this sometimes works a a. j cure Also with thumb-sucking thumb in children old enough to understand understand understand under under- stand nail jerking and twisting the head and similar habits Of course the person must understand his real aim aimis is to cure the bad habit It should be done cautiously and if possible under a a. psychologist j gist or the habit labit may become worse Answer to Question No 3 S 3 Not at all he is thinking solely of himself Ever since he took the money h he has carried a a. miserable sense of guilt and he returns it precisely as a a. child does who comes and confesses his wrongdoing to his mother Giving the money back gives him a a. sense of forgiveness of having righted a wrong and somehow he feels redeemed from his sin and inwardly cleansed