Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-23
LAUGHTER.
But, mark you, Death lets loose his grip
Each time he hears laugh.

But, mark you, Death lets loose his grip
Each time he hears laugh.
Laughter is an element of health. It
shakes up the diapragm and sends the
blood thrilling through the veins, and ex-
pels the murkY humors that clog the sys-
tenn. It dissipates gloom and illumlnes
the soul with Joy. Though its manifesto
tions may be evenescent, Its influence may
leave behind residum of chastened en-
joyment. sold Saws" spring from the
verities of human experience, but are gen.
orally untraceable, being clouded in the
mists and myths of antiquity. Neverthe-
less they are redolent with quaint philoso-
ply, and sound suggestions. "To laugh
and grow fat" is not meaningless apo
thegm, but contains an important truth
sententiously expressed, indicating 1.-THE
connection between laughter and healthy
digestion, Old Ben johnson says:
Laugh and be fat, sir, your penance is known
They that love miIth, let them heartily
drink,
IT'S the only receipt to make sorrow sink.
Medical men assert the physical benefit
of laughing, and advise US to "laugh and
grow fat" Hobbies, the old philosopher
says: Laughter is a sudden glory, arising
from sudden conception of some emil
nency in ourselves, by comparison with
some uniformity of others, or with our own"
favorably." And rbymster has said:
Laughter! 'tis the poor mans plaster
Covering up each sad disaster,
Laughing forgets his troubles
Which though real, seem like bubbles.
Laughter! tits seal of Nature
Laughter, whether loud or mute,
Tells the human kind from brute
Laughter! tits hopes living voice,
Bidding US to make choice,
And to Gull from thorny bowers,
Leaving thorns. and taking flowers.
Douglas Jerrold speaks of glorious
laughter, that blood-taking melancholy by
the nose and maketh it grin in spite of it.
SELF" And another says, eff you should
grow exorbitantly fat by laughing, laugh
ing still will keep you in healthy motion"
Man is the only animal that laughs. The
solemn, ass, though laughing never, has
been the cause of fatal laughter in man.
1t is recorded of Chrysippus, the philoso-
pher, that he died of immoderate laugh
ter caused by seeing an ass eating pigs!
And it is said of Marcus Crassus that he
never laughed but once In his life and that
was when he saw an ass eating thistles.
Philemon in his old age died in fit of
laughter, provoked by the solemn antics
of an ass. Many men of virtue and worth
are so constituted with the elements of
austere sobriety, that they seldom or never
laugh, and are rarely betrayed into a
smile. John Brown, the martyr, was not
given too much laughter. Life for him was
made ap of too stern realities. Laughter
was crushed out, and almost extinguished
In Washington, by the severe grandeur of
his sublimated personal dignity. Such
men chill rather than attract their fellows.
as they lack the benign magnetism that |
makes US hale-fellows in social, buoyant
fellowship. Some one unknown to fame has |
said: 'Whether laughter discovers the gums
OF infancy or age, the grimaces of folly or
the pearls of beauty; whether it rocks the |
sides or deforms the countenance of vul- |
garity or deep lines of the visage, or mois- |
tens the eye of refinement all phases,