allow these little bad thoughts to live in your head and heart for a
while, they get so bold and 'sassy' that they insist on taking
possession of the best room of your head and the parlor of your heart
and defy you to put them out? The only thing to do is to throw them
out the very first time they come in.

[Illustration: Fig. 7
(In each instance, the upper picture shows how the drawing will look
when partly finished.)]

"Let us take a walk down-street and mix with the crowd. Every person
whom we see is thinking about something, even though he doesn't say a
word, and we believe, as we look into the faces we meet, that we can
tell just what kind of thoughts some of them have. Here, for instance,
is a man with a face something like this: [Draw the sour face,
completing the first step, Fig. 7.] He looks grouchy; perhaps he is
vicious, and we avoid brushing against him. Perhaps he has lost money
in a business deal; perhaps he wanted a political position and didn't
get it; perhaps a supposed friend has proven untrue; perhaps his
disappointment, whatever it is, has made him sour and crabbed. But he
passes on, and we meet other faces. Here comes a man who looks
something like this: [Draw the happy face, completing Fig. 8.] He
doesn't look as if he had a care in all the world, does he? And yet we
may find that he, too, has lost money in a business transaction that
was full of promise--that he, also, has failed to win a political
race; that he has been mistreated by a supposed friend. And yet,
through it all, he has never lost sight of the sunshine. He has
learned many a valuable lesson from each of his disappointments, and
perhaps he has had a good many more of them than the other fellow ever
knew.