From Toronto Teachers' College's 1966 yearbook.

"Frowns or scowls make ugly things.  Smiling gives them fairy wings!"  From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).

From Startling Stories, 1948.

From Together, 1967.

From Roses and Other Plants Seeds, 1888.  (Thanks for the tip from Clawmarks.)

Here's some Seasonal Affective Disorder from Making and Keeping Friends by William Menninger, 1952.

A rotatable happy-sad face from Henderson's 1910 yearbook.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see another expression. From Elmhurst's 1937 yearbook.

The ghosts of light bulbs.  From Graphs: How to Make and Use Them by Herbert Arkin and Raymond Colton, 1940.

INSTRUCTIONS: Meet the "Monarch of all he surveys, only excepting his wife."

From c. 1906, via UpNprthMemories.

From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.

A frown turned upside down.  From Jugend, 1896.

Here's a precursor to photographer Jill Greenberg's technique of making subjects cry by taking away their lollipops.  From Nebelspalter, 1909.

It's been said that "skeletons symbolize everyone's condition in the world, where we are all left abandoned and starving, longing desperately for union with and nourishment from heaven and earth": see my skeletons gallery.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to crack a smile. From Judge's Library, 1894.

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From Les Hommes du Jour, 1913.

Reblog if you feel two ways about wearing wood-grain printed fabric.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.