The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-12-27
HOW PEOPLE LAUGH
NAPOLEON MADE HIS SOLDIERS RAISE
aLaueH THAT WON A BATTLE.

1t is Said That Laughter Was Fist
Used When Adam, on Awakening
Saw Eve BY His Side.
Since the days of Adam, who said TO
have invented laughter when he aWoAe
and saw Eve by his side, no two peo-
pIe have laughed alike. The Iaugn Is
as distinct as the voice. Women laush
differently from men, children from
women: indeed, even the laugh OF
full-bearded man is different rom
that which he laughs when ne mas
shaved.
The Able Damascent thought he had
discovered in the various enunclallohs
of laughter a sure guide to the temper
aments of the laughers. Thus ne salo:
.aa. Ha. Hal" belonged to acholerlc
-person: He! He. He!" to phlegmaG
ic one. and "Ho. Ho! Ho!" to the san
puine. And it is scientific fact tnat
while men commonly laugh in a ana
o women usually Taught E and I.
Those who practice laughing to any
extent have been divided wittlIy into
dimrlers- and to know how charming
thev can be- one has only to go back
tn Charles Reades "Simpleton with
DimDle'-smilers. grinners, horse
laushers and sneerers. This is to lay
down a science of laughing, for which
there might have been need had our
generals in the late war taken up the
idea cf old Bulow, who proposed &c
form troops in face Of the enemy, IN
line of battle, and order them TO ao-
vance with their arms at a shoulder
and salute the foe with ringing pursls
oflaughter.
aBe sure said Bulow, that your
opponents, surprised and disnayed 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 matter OF TACT,
it is related that the Mamelukes once,
turned tail from an assault upon the
French in Egypt on hearing the roar
of laughter with which Napoleon's vet
erans greeted the command: FORM
in squares, asses and men OF science
in the centre
Great men often have fancied it
part of greatness to refrain from hllar-
ity. Philip ". Of Spain is said to have
laughed only once in his life. That
was when his bride, Anne of Austria,
wept at hearing that the Queens OF
Spain had no feet. She took with Ger
man lireralness an old piece OF Span
ish courtesy. AS she was journeying
toward Spain some German nuns met
her, and desired to present some stock
inss ;of their own knitting. The
worthy Princess was about to accept
the gift when a Spanish grandee OF her
suite interfered with the remark that
it would be against etiquette. as the
Queens Of Spain were not supposed TO
have any use for stockings, where2t
the Princess began to weep, under
| standing, poor woman. that on her ar
rival in Spain her feet would be cut
of.
Lord Chesterfield said: Nobody has
seen ne laugh since have come to
nv reason. Congreve makes his
| Lord Frotn in the Double Dealer"
say: When ! laugh always laugh
alone" Young people and fools laugh
easily, says an old prcYerD, which or
len has proved, true.
Nevertheless. the singer Robert
gave lessons in laughter in Paris and
in London in 1905. and, so far at least
as filling. his own purse went, with
success. He held that men and Wo-
men could not laugh "decently and sys-
tematicalg" without proper training.
and said that person who could laugh
only in one tone seemed to him like
one who could say only oui and non;
but that atrained laughter should ex-
press many things.
It is curious fact that 1t is only
among the French and among the an
clients that we read Of people laughing
themselves. death. We. in our days,
must haveeither more jokes or q dull
er appreciation of wit ZeuXis is said
to have died Of laughing at painting
of an old woman. his own handiwork.
Philemon expired laughing at don
| kew who ate so contentedly the phil
csopher's figs that with his last ar
ticulate breath, he sent out his last
glass of wine to the beast, who drank it
with equal enjoyment. and thus proved
himself, it would seem, not such
donkey after all.
It remainsttrue, however, that laugh
ter is good for the health. Laugh
and grow fas'' is the old proverb. Sy-,
| denham maintained that the arrival Of
clown in avillage was as wholesome
as that Of twenty donkeys laden with
drugs. Tissot, the famous French
| physician, cured consumption and liV-
er complaints by causing his patients
to laugh, ard Erasmus, through i'm
moderate laughter at the rude Latin Of
Hutten's Letters of:Obscure Men,"
broke an internal abscess which had
| long plagued him.
When a man smiles, and much
more when he laughs. it adds some
thing to his fragment Of life said
Sterne, who wished laughter enumerat-
ed in the materia medica, holding it as
a curative of the same kind as cough
ing, sneezing. and perhaps vomiting.
only much pleasanter than any OF
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