The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-08-06
REFINED HUMOR.

4 writer in the New York Iihnf5 says
 T, may no doub, be surprising to ouf people to know tha, one of tine mos, re- fined humorous and literary journals in America is published in Little Rock-THt l ARkANSAw TRAvELER.
 This IS d compliment and one which. unlike many compliments. meets with most genuine appreciation. The ARKAN- SAW TRAvEiER will always be refined publication. Humpr and vulgarity are not acquainted they are strangers. \ smile expresses intellectual refinement the horse laugh which arises from the loa Ioke b vulgar When true .tmeg.tan humor seeks obscene illustration nt a point. then ii Is time for so called hgmor- ous publications to suspend. ilumar k IS often misunderstood as the sermon un the Mount No man who truly feels with in himself that bdbbling up of something genial. aspires to make the street loafer laugh He IS content wlth making | gentleman smile. Human nature ls hu- mprous. Accepting .he osthodnX yer sion of crcatioa. the world from Adam down to the last democratic convention has been humorous. Ilumor i, that re- iincd flow of emotion which mntiestly halts between smile and tear. This feeling cannot bc aroused by anything coarse. \ touch os true character brings Ii once the Smile or the tear. \ rough Jokc cannot quicken such feeling.
 He who delights in the name of :" funny man k the weak part of a yer, shackly literary machine. His work k as me ehanical as that of | corn sheilcr He proposes to rub oti he grams of miuh whether or no, the cob Is willing. He strives h awaken the horse laugh even though from the more refined |; brings a blush. \ laugh i, an expression of nature The little child laughs: the iit,lc child smiles at the amusing grimaee of a parent. but the little child does not smile at a distorted face. No artist, whether from nature. the great mother of all science and truth In the most uneouth That clement K the foundation upon which the better idea al life is constructed: ]: in the composition of every man there k 4 smile; upon that element intellectual enjoyment and kindness of Eeaft are erected. The simple touch that Ilumincs this smile k bcneti, to mankind Sour ness may he deep but il is moi inspiring. Bitterness may be heavy in its though, but |, is no, proper food for the soul. The las, days of Carlyle. both sour and bitter. did not shed one ray of light upon man. The last days of Hood. ,o the pondcrous mind may have been light, Yet they made many smile and were Il blessing to man kind. The true humoris,. the refined writer in lively mood, does not live in valn. Why. you grizzly headed banker. after you have struggled all day with the ln,ricacics ot finance. do you no, ind more actual pleasure and in fact more benefit in an hour with rhaekeray than you would with Watt: Certainly you do One makes you smile over the ligh,ness of life; the other imprcsseS you with lic's hcaviness.
 Refined humar points out the easier paths ot lie. Coarse Nil is d rough road. You may run down q smooth glade and smile m your freedom You may fall over stone and laugh q, the accident. The glade may not inspire so loud laugh as the rock. but in one YOU arc uninJured but in the other yoa skin your knee.
 The ARkANsAw THANEiER may he stupid but il will never be coarse Ii we can persuade man to smile. Ill right. If he shows no disposition of tlrc .cnill. we will leave hlm and associate with his bet ter conditioned nclghbor