HOW TO BE HAPPY OR SAD
CHANGE \ THE LOCAL COLOUR. B is a good thing to remember that oiie's mood may he changed or accommodated by altering the environment. If you want to change your mood try a change of your dress. ' Wagner used different coloured coats for his different moods. »and Gorki, the' writer, used "symbolic ink*' — red for rage, black for tragedy, green for happiness. _ In hospitals for treating mental affections it is not uncommon to have rooms with walk decorated in definite colours — green and blue for the excited, red 'for the dejected. There is mpre in the- decoration of houses than is often cup* posed, and a man who is fortunate in having the necessary mean* can almost euit his moods to please himself. He can have his sad room and his joy room at pleasure. Environment, not season, is the great maker of moods j the gardener is often a gloomy man — the lady of the house cuts his flowers and the frost spoils his plants; the gamekeeper is often surly because he views everyone as a possible trespasser, and the. younger, son has a disappointed air because, by the caprice of fortune, he has an elder brother ! — Prof essoa? T. Claye Shaw, in th 6 Daily Newts.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 59, 6 September 1913, Page 12
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