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Show Mental Treatment Best to Overcome Moodiness One- of the commonest faults among modern women is "moodiness," "moodi-ness," according to a recent psychological psy-chological study. The psychologists have been seeking a cure for it, and declare that mental treatments, administered ad-ministered by the sufferer herself, give the best results. "Moodiness is a thing that definitely definite-ly endangers a woman's happiness," declares Anne Bryan McCall in the Woman's Home Companion. "It also harms her standing with others and menaces her usefulness. Moody people peo-ple are untrustworthy and unaccountable unac-countable to others. They are gay and friendly one day, and the next may be sullen or discouraged or morose. "Why do they indulge a characteristic character-istic so obviously to their own disadvantage? disad-vantage? Almost invariably moodiness moodi-ness is the easy thing, the unadult thing, the undeveloped thing. If you carry the analysis further, you can hardly fail to see that it is also the primitive thing, .the uncivilized thing, the savage tiling, as a matter of fact moodiness and 'unreliability are outstanding traits of savage tribes. "The person who is still behaving In uncivilized ways, ways of moodiness, moodi-ness, is a person who is not keeping up with civilization. This is a person who Is taking the easy childish way out. It Is the person who is not developing de-veloping and who no matter how up-to-date she may think she is, Is in a profound sense tragically behind the times." The remedy, according to the psychologists, psy-chologists, is for the victim of moodiness moodi-ness to ask herself the following questions every day, and answer them honestly : "How moody have I been today? How savage? How cfflld-lsh? cfflld-lsh? How undeveloped? In short how Inferior and backward a person have I been?" . |