Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1855-11-14
L.auGhter.

Professor Flogel devotes 270 pages to pro-
foundly philosophical investigation OF the origin
use, and benefit of laughter generally, ard urea Is
of its different causes and aspects under 'n't'y-
seven distinct heads.-He is able to inform US
how to Judge mans character and disposition oy
hearing him laugh. The melancholy mans laugh
is poor hi, hi, hi!-the choleric temperament
shows itself in he, he!-the ph'egmatc 10
cheerful ha. ha, ha!-and sangulne haoil IS %
Itrayed by lis own characteristic no, no, ho!-
II Westminster RepieW.
Two hundred and seventy pages deVolea u
laughter! But not too many. AS a remeaia' d
gent nothing equals it. One hearty laugh every
dav. will cure each and all who are sick, or any
way aing of whatever complaint,and keep tnoSe
in health always we'll! The laugh cure VIII e.
ven beat the water cure, potent as 1t ls.-hId 'iie
two combined if universally applied, would soon
close every apoihecary shop, lay every physician
water cure included, on the shelf, and Danish ev-
erv form of disease from among men. All It's
giggles elfectually stir up every viscefal organ
churn the stomach and bowels more effeclually
i than ANYTHING else can possibly do-hence, the
easy laughers are always fat-hurry the blood
throughout the system with real rush. burst o.
pen closed pores, and cast out morbid matter most
Irapidly-for how soon does hearty laughter induce
free perspration-set the brain in motion TO man.
lufaciure emotions, thoughts, and mentality, as
nothing can excite it. and universally practlced
would be worth more to the race, than II CallIor-
mia gold deposits covered the W hole heart! On-
ly when fully tried, can it be duly appreciated
! Laughter is life; while sadness and long faceo
sedaeness is death.
| A medical neighbor tells the following =.
While on pic mic excursion with party OF
vonng people, discerning crows nest on a rocky
precipice, they started in great glee to see VINO
would reach it first Their haste being greater
than prudence, some lost their holds. and were
seen rolling and tumbing down the hillside, bon
nets smashed, clothes torn, postures rldicuious'
&c. but no one hurt Then commenced scene
of the most violent and long continued laughter,
and which, being all young people well acqua!n-
ted with each other and in The woods, they IN
duged to perfect surfeit. They roared Out
with merry peal on peal of spontaneous laughter;
! they expressed it by hooing and hallooing when
ordinary laughter became insufficient to express
the merrilnent they felt at their own RIDICULOUS
situations and those of their mates and ever al
forwards the bare mention of the crow-nest scene,
occasioned renewed and inepressible laughter.
Years after one of their number fell SICK, BE-
came So low that she could not speak, and was a
bout breathing her last.
Our Informant called to see her,gave his name,
and tried to make himself recognised, but tailed,
till he mentioned the crows nest. at which she
recognized him and began to laugh, and contin-
ued every little while renewing it, and from !hat
time began to mend. recovered, and still lives
nementp of The laugh cure.
The very best application Of laughter is in con
nection with intellect, as in the soul stirring
speech where some public folly or wrong is held
up TO merited rdicule-the location OF mirthful-
ness at the side OF causalty indicating their con
| joint exercise.
But whether we laugh wisely or foolishly, at
something or nothing; at ourselves or others let
us ha ha many times day, and laugh off many
of those ills and petty annoyances at once, over
which 100 many now fret and cry.