The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
Our gincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught.

-SheItey.
At a funeral once, e gentleman in
tears pulled of his wig with his hat, and
observed deep mourner giggling at
Mr.. -. Very slight and various
causes produce remarkable ebul1itioRs of
this physical phenomenon. We laugh
st a thought, or at ludicrous combina-
tons of words or matter-anything
which is different to the way we expect
it, or are accustomed to see it. For
instance, if digniGed man accidentally
trips and falls on the stage; or by the
misappropriataon of q word, as when
a lady asked as the ofice-box 10 book
some preserved" seats; also at dis
tOrted objects, or merely because it
tickles our fancy. Scientifically, it is
O6l0ngGtd which is the irritating organ.
Temperament has no doubt a great deal
TO do with healthful laughter, and
sometimes it is positive indication of
weakness of the nervous system.
The homes of ancient and medieval
times would have been dull indeed but
for the fools and testers whose sole bust
ness was to provide laughter. The
asses ears, fools sceptre and cocks
comb, have played Important parts in
the history OF many drama, real and
idle. All Fools Day, when everything
was given up to Edicule and folly, was
an undoubtedly compliment to those
merry andrews, and proves their
influence upon society. suppose our
low comedians of to-day to q certain
extent fill the place of these court
testers" and merry councillors " That
full breath, thrown out in short, inter
Eupted, audible sounds, accompanied by
such a queer expression and distortion
OF features, and in extreme cases by an
etusiOn of tears from the lechrymal
glands, must app ear to all thinking
minds, perfectly marvellous. These are,
however, only the physical effects; the
mental are thousand fold, and comprise
all the VaridtiOns Of the faculty, as the
smile, the shipper, the litter, the
Singer, the grin, the horse laugh,
guffaw, giggle, crow, smoker, chuckle
and cackle. The dimple laugh gives q
charming expression and grace to the
features, and in ancient times was
practiced to entangle gazing adorers.
They called it the chan laugh. l won
der If it is practiced now! The grin was
called the SyaeruSida, and has ever been !
used to display beautiful set of teeth. |
The guffsW, chuckle and cackle are not |
honored with ancient names, but have |
bCCA VI VIC 6bA4OEL Nd4uC III |
The side the laugh Joins |
with generally gains the best of the |
He laughs who wins"
The smile, or Ionic laugh, is beyond |
question the most exquisite of the |
shove: it does not disorder the features |
visions of dimples, sparkling eyes, and
pearly teeth. Poets have raved about |
this heaYen-born expression of pleasure
By the countenance," as the dictionary
has it, so I nope I may be excused.
Beauty is never so beautiful as when
adorned with a smile.
smiles from reason glow, @ brutes denied,
And are of love the good.
-KfHon.
Let as avoid the barren shipper, snig-
gle and grin. which as Carlyle tells US,
)ne thrust form the throat upwards,
With q snuff and q litter, and whiting
husky noise; and God defend US from
he empty-headed horse laugh, or
Iardonic! Poets have been equally effu-
i've about that; ne hear q great deal of
he loud laugh that spoke the vacant
mind, "'the horse laugh that indicates
brutality of character. Never trust
your horse laughter! But, in spite of-all
his, it is laugh, and if it flows natur-
lily and honestly from the heart, We
i0OulO not condemn II. IN tneS6 0lglly |
proper days we can understand that
Kitty Gives remarkably celebrated
gushing laugh, which used to rouse her
audience to roars of reclamation. might
,e considered boisterous and unmaid-
My, and quite unfit for the drawing
DOM. We should prefer the delicate,
md perhaps more enchanting, refine
nent of such q laugh as might be
of Peg Wellington, Dorothy
ordan, or Mrs. Nisbett, or more
ecentIy, of such as Lolita or Ellen '
'erry. We cannot always Judge q man
Y his laugh, or condemn him for not {
aving one Liston hadD t one, vet he
the power of provoking r
aughter in others; SO irresistible was
is Influence, that when he consulted q 7
octor, and complained of his want of
the doctor recommended him T
D ''go and see Liston." The doctor 7
'as perfectly dumbfeunded when he / Y
new he was addressing Liston. With
FANATIC students it is thing to prac- Y
ce and encourage as an indispensable
of his art; with others it is
lOugh TO know that il is most enioy-
DE NofhIuO Is mora oxhilo ti1ct