Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-10
LAUGHTER.

foundy philosophical investigation of the orr
gin, use, and benefit of laughter generally, and
treats of its different causes and aspects under
thirty-seven distinct heads. He is able to in
form us how to judge mans character and
disposition by hearing him laugh. The mel
ancholy mans laugh is a poor hi, hi, hi =
the choleric temperament shows itself in he,
he the plegmatic in cheerful ha, ha, ha =
and sanguine habit is betrayed by its own
characteristic, ho, ho, ho!- Westminster Re-
vieac.
Two hundred and seventy pages devoted to
laughter! But not too many. AS remedial
agent nothing equals it. One hearty laugh
every day will cure each and all who are sick,
or any way ailing, of whatever complaint, and
keep those in health always well. The laugh
cure will even beat the water cure, potent as
it is And the two combined, if universally
applied, would soon close every apothecary
shop, lay every physician, water cure included,
on the shelf, and Danish every form of disease
from among them. All its giggles effectually
stir upevery visceral organ, churn the stomach
and bowels more efectually than anything else
can possibly do-hence the easy laughers are
always fat-hurrying the blood throughout the
system with real rush, burst open closed
pores, and cast out morbid matter most rapidly
for how soon does the hearty laugher induce
free perspiration--set the brain in motion to
manufacture emotions, thoughts, and mentali-
ty, as nothing can excite it! and universally
practised would be worth more to the race,
than if California deposites covered the whole
earth! Only when fully tried, can it be duly
appreciated. Laughter is life; while sadness
and long-faced sedatenessis death.
A medical neighbor tells the following
While on picnic excursion with a party Of
young people, discerning crows nest on a
rocky precipice, they started in great glee to
see who would reach it first. Their haste be-
ing greater than prudence, some lost their holds
and were seen rolling and tumbling down the
hillside, bonnets smashed, clothes torn, pos
lures ridiculous, &C., but no one hurt. Then
commenced scene of the most violent and
long-continued laughter, and which, being all
young people we'll acquainted with each other,
and in the woods, they INDUCED to a perfect
surfeit. They roared out with merry peal on
peal of spontaneous laughter; they expressed
it by hooting and hallooing when ordinary
laug ghter became insufficient to express the mer-
riment they felt at their own ridiculous situa-
tions and those of their mates and ever after
ward the bare mention of the croY-nest scene,
occasioned renewed and irrepressible laughter.
Years after one of their number fell sick,
became so low that she could not speak, and
was about breathing her last.
Our informant called to see her, gave his
name and tried to make himself recognized,
but failed till he mentioned the crows nest, at
which she recognized him, and began to laugh,
and continued every little while renewing it;
from that time began to mend, recovered, and
still lives memento of the laugh cure.
The very best application of laughter is in
connection with intellect, as in the. best soul
stirring speech where's some public folly or wrong
is held up to mcrited ridiculc-the location of
mirthtulness at the side of casualty indicating
their conjoint exercise.
But whether we laugh wisely or foolishly at
something or nothing; at ourselves Or at 9TH
ers let US ha-ha many times day, and
laugh off many of those ills and petty annoy
ances at once, over which too many now fret
and cry.
The hi, hi, hi he, he, he ha, ha, ha ! no,
no, ho! mentioned in the above quotation as
signs of character, are all true, but embody
only the merest glimpse of those charactcris-
tics disclosed by different laughs. Thus con-
tinued laughter, continuity, and application !;
while short ha, ha of only two elections,
and the first the most forcible, signifies "good
on the spirit" but without consecutiveness-
What such can do with a rush, they will do
6rst-rate, yet will plod over nothing. Whole
souled, spontaneous persons, laugh right out
heartily and loudly, while secretive persons
suppress their laughter, and hypocrites change
their countenance into anunmcaning leer.-
Warm feeling but reserved persons hold in for
a while, then burst into a broad hearty laugh
Such will be cold and stoical on first acquain-
tance and towards uncongenials, yet warm and
devoted friends when their affections, adhesive
or conjugal, are once enlisted Discriminating
persons laugh atsense, or only when something
laughable is presented while the undiscern-
ing laugh about as much at what is a little
laughable, as at what is superlativcly ridicu-
lous.
Cast iron conservatives laugh little, and
then by rule; and proud aristocrats must keep
on dignifed hard-faccd look, while true re-
publican familiars laugh freely. Vain persons
laugh much, at least with their faces, and at
what they have said and done. Forcible per-
sons laugh "good and strong" while tame
ones laugh tamely. Some laugh mainly with
their faces, others with both face and body
The former is better for health than nothing,
yeta thousand times more healthy is the latter
The old fogy notion, that to laugh out loud
is decidedly vulgar, especially for female, is
mplyridioulous. 1t is on a par with breath
ing, thinking, and every natural Junction.
True, there is course, gross, sensual and an
exceeding vulgar laugh, yet its vulgarity con-
sists in the sensualism of the laughter and its
heartiness.
ORIGIN OF SURNAMES.
Few people, when they hear strangers
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