Show homemakers PAGE by marie AT ogden with a weekly publication colled coiled progressive opinion wh ch we receive as an exchange we found an interesting supplement on character building from which we offer the following article written by dr john T aller and which includes some splendid information and suggestions in regard to correction of negative traits in children dr miller says all boys and girls must learn how to be happy and how to make others happy the way to be happy is by thinking the best thoughts we can every d day ay and by doing the best we can do every day happy thoughts and feelings lift up all the muscles of the face and turn the corners cornera of the mouth upward sad and feelings pull the muscles down and turn the corners of the mouth downward in more than 1000 cities around the world the editor of the character builder has told boys and girls how to build life right he placed upon the blackboard in school a f face ace with the corners of the mouth up and one with them down in every school the children could tell him which is the happy face and which one is not an artist once painted tb the e face of the nicest boy he could find then he wanted to paint a very ugly face to show the mis spent life he hunted many years for the ugly face and when he found ana painted it he learned that it was the face of the nice boy that had been spoiled by many many years of wrong thinking and bad living after his life building talk in one of the a girl came to the writer and said 1 I have a bad temper people tease me and then I 1 get angry and say and do things that thai I 1 am sorry for if people did not tease me I 1 would not get angry and would not say and do those things teasing is a very bad habit many dogs have been teased until they were angry and bit people A friend had a good dog that everybody liked but the boys teased the dog until it was angry and bit people the owner had a muzzle put on it but was vas afraid it might come off and he would have to pay damages if the dog should bite anybody so he hired a man to take the dog out and shoot it if the dog had not been teased he would have made people happy for years many years ago a father and mother came to the writer with their girl for help in training her they said the girl had such a bad temper they did not know what to do with her when they were told never to let anybody tease her and she would gain control of her temper the father said that sounded reasonable to him and he would protect the girl from teasing he did two years later the mother came with the girl and said that she now seldom became angry and had almost ei entirely overcome her bad temper the writer has studied all the boys and girls in reform schools of three states nearly all of them were there because they were too stubborn to be controlled or because they had bad tempers and quarrelsome natures or because they took things that did not belong to them or because of the misuse of sex life when boys and girls learn to control themselves there will be no more need for probation officers juvenile courts and reform schools there will then be more happy homes than there are now |