The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-02-23
A CHAPTER ON LAUGHTER.


Than that we quenched in parting tears!
A CHAPTER ON LAUGHTER.
am not ore of those who think with the |
poet that loud laugh bespeaks vacant
mind. love to hear sturdy ouiburst;
quick, sudden, full, and sonorous. Not a |
premeditated laugh, mind you! No, one of
those explosions where you see the risiLle |
muscles working and puckering up half an
hour previous to the expected cachinnatory
ebulition. No telegraphick signals for me. |
No precursors to destroy the effects of what
is coming; gise me laugh, the sound of
which strikes upon the tympanum with the |
sudden effect of thunder from the summer
sky-yet would not have it uproarods or
lasting either, but of moderate volume, and
departing as suddenly as it came There
Is some pleasure in telling good Joke to a
hearty laugher-it repays you for treasur-
ing 1t In your memory-you feel that your
soc'ablliy is appreciated, and while tie re-
cipient shakes all over with mirih, YOU con-
graduate yourself that the pleasurable feel
ings you have excited are worthy tribute
paid to your powers of humorous recital,
No man ever laughed heartily without being
stout and whole-souIed wiihal. There is
more philosophy in the advice sslaugh and
grow fat" than is dreamed of in the day.
dreams of the many. 1t implies capability
of neutralizing care by dilming it with good
humor. The lean, ragged, fursive-looking
anatomy never enjoys the luxury of good
laugh; at least not such one as makes YOU
throw yourself back in your chair, your
thumbs tucked into the arm-holes of your
waistcoat, your face turned to the ceiling,
your mouth wide open, and every thew and
sinew convulsed with pleasant sensations
His physical powers are unequal to SO much
eXertlon--a brief smile is the utmost he can
compass-and that "like moonlight on the
blasted health" only exposes by its melan-
choly brightness, the desolation Of the sur
face it lrradIa,es. Never sti1e pleasurable
feelings. Every honest laugh man enjoys
draws nail fiom his coffin-"vive la baga-
tel!e," Laugh when you cam" ssthrow ply
sick TO the dogs" and study to be as good
humoured as you may--it is the only secret
of long life and a green old age. Good
humor is better than Swaim's Panacea-and
cheaper to boot. Never be ANNOYED at tri-
Aes; they are but the flying clouds across
the blue sky of a mans life. They soon
pass away, and what the better are you for
having been il!-humored at their presence.
Sunshine is the laughter of nature, and,
mark you! how heat-gladdened all things
are when basking beneath its beauty. The
lambs frlsk, the birds sing--the streams leap
in their brightness, and even the spirit oil
man expands glowing to Its influence. As
sunshine is to the visible world, SO is laugh
ter to Misunderstanding and viyifyina
warming and expanding.
TIE AMERICAN ORAToR.-The Roman
orator had the population Of city for his
audience, but the American orator has ma
: lion for his heaters Although his voice is
!. not heard by his countrymen proclaiming
: the precepts Of morality-yet the Press
J. bears every word which he utlers in the
4 Capitol from The Atlantic cities to the Flor.
). idas. The merchant of New Y rk reads
a the speech when reclining on his luxurious
couch, after the business OF the day is over
and the hunter Of the Rocky Mountains car
: peruse /. by the light of his pine torch. Yes
|evenin the RIDE hut of the trapper, whef
l. the, bleak snows are lying around, and ID.
l. loud night blast walls above his lonely dwell
+ ling, the thoughts Of the American orator ar,
ID felt. Let him remember his responsibility
y, and weigh all that he utters He is spea
al ing to fourteen millions Of freemen!
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