HOW TO BE HAPPY OR SAD

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3452, 2 October 1913, Page 7

HOW TO BE HAPPY OR SAD

CHANGE THE LOCAL COLOUR. It is a good thing to remember that one’s mood may be changed or accommodated by altering the environment. If you want to change your mood try a change of your dress. IVagner uses different colored coats for his different moods, and Gorki, tho writer, uses “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 walls decorated in definite colors—green and blue for the excited, red for tho dejected. There is more in the decoration of houses than is often, supposed, and a man who is fortunate in having the necessary means can almost suit his moods to please himself. Ho can have his sad room and his joy room at pleasure. Environment, not season, is the groat maker of moods; 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 localise, bv the caprice of fortune, he has an elder brother'.—Professor T. Clave Shaw, in the “Daily News.”