If you frown it will soon get to be a habit--and give you a heavy heart. If you smile your face will be attractive, no matter how unlucky you were in the lottery of beauty. Be pleasant and you will never feel old. The pleasant disposition is a sure route to happy land and happy homes. Old Ponce de Leon lost out in searching for the fountain of youth. If he had been pleasant, he would have kept the smiles on his wife's face and there would have been no excuse to leave her to find the mythical fountain. Hoe cake, bacon and smiles beat lobster, champagne and frowns. Our land is thrice blessed with its peaceful, happy homes--for "happy homes are the strength of a nation." Be pleasant in your home. Make the children feel home is the pleasantest place in the world. Every act and example is written in the child's memory tablet. Let your hours with the children be loving, laughing, living hours. Pat them on the head, joke with them, whisper affection, express love to them. Those acts will be remembered in all their years to come, for you are planting everlasting plants that may pass on to a hundred generations and make children happy a thousand years from now. [Sidenote: Cheerfulness Its Own Reward.] Be pleasant to live with and you will have more pleasant things to live for. There will be kindnesses, kisses, beauty, health, peace, fun, happiness and content coming your way all along the great big road of life you are traveling. Be pleasant to live with and the people will turn to you as you pass and reflect your cheerfulness like the sunflowers turn to face the sun. Be pleasant; don't be cross and crabbed because someone else in the household is not pleasant. Do your part; you will likely thereby cure the frown habit on the face of the unfortunate disturber of your peace. Make yourself right before you criticise your life partner. Answer this question, "Am I pleasant to live with?" Don't fool yourself in the matter. Get right down to brass tacks with yourself, watch your moves and acts and attitude for ten days carefully before answering the question. If your answer is no, now is your time to change your attitude and try the pleasant plan, and here is my blessing and good wishes in such an event. 5. There is fun and interest and diversion all around us. All we need is keen observation and we will see much that passes unnoticed to the preoccupied person. What an interesting thing is the great round world we live in! The people are as interesting as fish in an aquarium. [Sidenote: Sitting on the Side Lines.] See the rushing, surging crowd. Man pushes along searching for necessary things to be done; he builds cities, harnesses rivers, makes ships to sail the seas to the uttermost parts of the earth. Man goes to war, he builds death-dealing devices that destroy in a few minutes a beautiful cathedral which has taken centuries to build. Man makes the desert blossom like a rose.