The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-30
THE WAYS WE LAUGH
THEY DIFFER AS MUCH AS DO OUR
VOICES OR OUR FACES.

won NQpOkeou q Battle.
Since the days OF Adam, who is said
to have invented laughter when he
awokc aud saw Eve by his side. no
two people have laughed alike. The
laugh is as distinct as the voice.
Women laugh differently from men,
children from women; indeed, even
the laugh OF o full bearded man Is diff
ferent from that which lie laughs when
he has shaved.
The AbDe Damasceni thought lie had
discovered In the various enunclations
Of laughter sure guide to the tenn
peraments Of the laughers. Thus he
said "Ha! ha! ha" belonged to
choieric person; HE! he! he" to
phlegmatic one, and "Ho! ho! ho.' to
the sanguine. And it is a scientific
fact that, while men commonly laugh
in A and 0, women usually laugh in
Z and /.
Those who practice laughing to any
extent have been divided wlttily into
dimplers-and to know how charming
they can be one has only to 60 back to
Charles Readc's "Simpleton With a
Dlmple" griuners horse
laughers and sneerers. This Is to lay
down science Of laughing. for which
there might have been need had our
generals in the late war taken up the
idea Of old Bulow, who proposed to
form troops. In face of the enemy, In
line Of battle and order them to ad-
vance with their arms at n shoulder
and salute the foe with ringing bursts
OF laughter.
'Be sure." said Bulow, "that your
opponents, surprised and dlsmayed at
this astonishing salute. would turn
about and run off,"
Perhaps this scheme would not work
now, while the present long range ar
tillery Is used; but, as q matter Of fact.
it ig related that the AEauleiukes once
turned iaii from an assault upon the
French in Egypt on hearing tho roar
OF laughter with which Napoleon's
veterans greeted the command, Form
In squares, asses and men OF science
In the center"
Great men often have fancled 1t a
part OF greatness to refrain from hilar.
ity. Philip Nv OF Spain is said to have
laughed only once in his life. That
was when his bride, Anne OF Austrin,
wept at hearing that the queens of
Spain had no feet. She took with Ger.
man literalness IN cid piece Of Spanish
courtesy. As she was journeying to.
ward Spain some German nuns met
her and desired to present some stock.
tngS OF their own knitting. The worthy
princess was about to accept the gift
when q Spanish grandee OF her suit In.
terfered with the remark that II would
be against etiquette, as the queens Of
Spa. were not supposed to hsvo any
use FOR stockings, whereat the priucess
began to weep, understanding, door
woman. that on her arrival In Spain
her feet would be cut of.
Lord Chesterfield said, "Nobod]v has
seen me laugh since have come to INV
reason" ana Congreve makes his Lord
Froth IN the Double Dealer say,
when laugh. always laugh alone"
Young people and fools laugh easily.
says an old proverb. which often has
proved true.
Nevertheless the singer Robert saye
lessons In laughter In Paris and in Lon.
don In 1905. and, so far ut least as
niling his own purse went, with suc-
cess. He held that men and women
could not iangh "decect,y anu sva.
teInatically" without n-oza= training
and said that q person who could laugh
only in one tone seemed to him ike
one who could say only oui and non.
Dut that trained laughter should ex.
press many things.
1t ts curious fact that 1t is only
among the French and among the an.
clients that we read Of people laughing
themselveS to death. We. In orr davs
must have either more Jokes or a dull.
er appreciation Of wit Zeuxis is said
10 have died Of laughing at O painting
or an old woman, his own handiwork.
Phtlemon expired laughing ut donkey
who ate SO contentedly tbs philoso.
piers 1gs that, with his la articulate
breath, he sent out his iast glass of
wine to the beast, who drank It with
equal enjoyment and thus proved him.
SELF. It yi:cu;d seem. not such donkey
after al!E
1t remnins true, however, that laugh.
ter is good for the health. Laugh and
grow fat" Is the old proyerb. Syden-
ham maintained that the arrival of q
clown in a village was as wholesome
as that Of 20 donkeys laden with drugs.
Tissot, the famous French physIcian.
cured consumption ana liver com.
plants by causing his patients to
laugh, and Erasmus, through fmmoder.
ate laughter at the rude Latin Of HSt-
tens Letters OF Obscure Men," broke
an internal abscess which had long
plagued him.
when q man smiles, and much more
when he laughs, it adds something to
his fragment Of life," said Sterne who
wished laughter enumerated In the ma.
teria medica, holding it as q curative
of the same kind as coughing, sneez.
Ing and perhaps vomiting; only much
pleasanter than any OF these.
Queer Busine-1 Combinations:
Some Chicago men carry on at the
same time two or more different lines
nj -.ax u