When women used to be depressed or were not “taking care of their men” properly their husbands could send them to the psych ward for attitude adjustments. This was part of conditioning them to always wear a smile. They believed that if a woman saw herself smiling that it would become natural practice and that she would be “cured”. This often went along with shock therapies.
This gives a whole new level of creepiness to when random men tell you to smile.
god thats gross
People who talk about the 50s like they were this golden Era frighten me
why do every one of you believe shit that is handed to you
This picture is from the Smile Club in Budapest, Hungary which dated back to the 1930s. it was during WWI when Hungary was in a serious suicide epidemic and so they thought that by people working on their smiles, they could counteract the self-destruction rates (which was mostly as a joke of itself).
source (this one has been removed but a simple search for “smile club budapest gives you everything)
source
google for fucks sake
lawlliets