Cheerfulness: A Bright Face And A Cheery Word - Deepstash

Cheerfulness: A Bright Face And A Cheery Word

About the same time as Marden, the Boy Scouts of America published its first handbook, combining advice about such practical skills as how to build a fire in the woods, with moral encouragement toward a better life. The development of the self is governed by a “Scout Law”, consisting of 12 virtues. The 8th of these is cheerfulness. Here is how the Scouts define it:

“Another scout virtue is cheerfulness. As the scout law intimates, he must never go about with a sulky air. He must always be bright and smiling… A bright face and a cheery word spread like sunshine from one to another.”

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A cheery mood, we might think, is a terribly self-absorbed response to serious times. But history tells us otherwise.

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