The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-07-28
HILLsDALE MICH, TUESDAY, JULY 2s 1857
Laughter.

Speaking Of laughter; when a woman's
laugh is musical, it is the sweetest thing in
the world; when heard the warble of birds
and brooks, and the tinkle of harps are unat-
tended.
1t is an accomplishment that cannot be
learned-that art Of laughing we'll; gift OF
Nature, bestowed upon her favorites.
Somebody confesses to having been fasci-
mated by one Of the fairest faces the sun
ever kissed blush on, and pair Of eyes
that almost "took the breath.n For long
time, he played the poor Publican and wor-
SHIPPED her afar of, when one day, that he
imediately indicated in his calender with n
"white mark, he succeeded in getting within
two chairs of her, at dinner. His soul lay at
the threshold of one of his ears, TO hear what
should first fall from those divine lips
Blessed would those words be, and remem-
bercd forever! He had not long to wait, for
the words came, and all to soon for romance.
And what in tho name of Webster's Una
bridged, do you suppose they were? "By
jfago" His castle in the air came down by
the turr,r,s and the angle that swore "by
jingo," dwelt in nothing of his building.
The owner of one of the sweetest faces
we ever saw, whose lips, it seemed to US,
should always part in music, Memnon's did
at sunrise, had laugh like the rafting of
unannonted machinery. 1t was much as if
a distant saw-mill should pause in its riving
of trees, and fall a laughing with the sort of
mouth that such q set Of teeth would be like
ly to fill. And she was always laughing,
and as she was wont. innocenty TO say, cit
hurt her to laugh" Every body sympathized
with her. for it hurt every body to hear her.
There is world Of character in the laugh !;
quality that shows as it were, the grain of
tie soul, whether it be Of course or delicate
texture. Leather Stockings" quiet, inly,
and yet hearty merriment, it docs ono good
TO see; it is the sort of laugh to be enjoyed.
Some people keep there hearts so tucked a
way out of all sight and hearing, that laugh
ter explodes above them, much as a ships
gun at sea, above the groves of red coral,
having nothing in the world to do with them
at all.
A great, honest laugh from great, honest
man, is as pleasant TO hear as a chime of bells
on a holiday, but deliver us from litter
We do not wonder it serves as name for
one of the meancst weeds that grows. And
there is a whole family Of them-giegles,
chuckles and grines-in which plethoric wa
tor spouts, mean men and humorous hycnas
indulge.
How much llcartiness there is in the cha
ha' that wakcns the echoes; how the jolly
huntsman's "ho hc' rings through the good,
green wood; "hc he" is roGuish explosion,
and "hu hu" winds up that great diapason of
laugh we sometimes hear, when pair of
strong lungs goes through the merry gamut
with aha ha"-ho ho-hu hu," until the
five vocals and the breath arc exhausted to-
ge,hcr.
.. An hQgGgt. bsr @gm2n laugh j. always made
When you hear a man who laughs conso-
nants, look out for him; who elects series
Of SIS at you, between the sharp edges of his
teeth.
When a man laughs, he ALWAYS laughs in
English, no matter what dialect Of Babel his
mother may have taught him. 1t is a uni
vcrsaI language, common at once Moses and
to "Mose."