Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-10-11
HE WAYS WELAUGH
THEY DIFFER AS MUCH AS 90 OUR
VOICES OR OUR FACES.

While Men Com monty Use the q and
a style, Women Usually Indulge In
the Il and Braod-A Laugh That
Won Napoleon a Battle.
Since the days Of Adam. who as said
TO have invented laughter when he
awOke and 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 full bearded man is diff
ferent from that which he laughs when
he has shaved
The Able DamaSceni thought he had
discovered in the various enunciations
of laughter n sure guide TO the tenn
peramentS of the laughers. Thus he
said "Ha, la. har' belonged to a
choleric person: He, he, he" To n
phlegmatic one. and "Ho, no, hor' to
the sanguine. And it is a scientific
fact that. while men commonly laugh
in \ and ., women usually laugh in
T. and |.
Those who practice laughing to any
extent have been divided wittily into
dimplcrS and to know how charming
they can Ice one has only TO go back TO
Charles ReadcS "Simpleton With a
Dimple"- smilcrs. grinners. horse
laughcrS and sncCrers 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 of old BulOw. who proposed to
form troops. in face Of the enemy. in
line Of battle and order them to adj
vance with their arms at shoulder
ana salute the foe with ringing bursts
of laughter.
BE sure" said Bulow that your
opponents. surprised and dismayed ut
this astonishing salute. would turn
| about and run on
Perhaps this scheme would not work
now, while the present long range arr
/ tillery is used; but, rs a matter OF fact.
| 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 Napoicon's
veterans greeted the command. Form
in squares. asses ana men of science
in the center"
Great men often have fancicd it "a
part of greatness to refrain from hilar-
| 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
mau literalneSs an old piece Of Spanish
! courtesy. As she was journcying to-
ward Spain some German nuns met
her and desired TO present some stock
ings Of their own knitting. The worthy
! princess was about TO accept the Gift
when Spanish grandce of her suit i'm
terfered with the remark that il would
| be against etiquette. rs the queens If
| Spain were not supposed to have ANY
use for stockings. whereat the princess
began To weep. understanding. Door
woman, that ON her arrival in Spain
her feet would be cut off.
! Lord Chesterfield said, NOBODY has
seen me laugh since have come TO nv
reason and Congreve makes his Lord
froth in the Double Dealer" say.
| when laugh. 1 always laugh alone. -
Young people and fools laugh easily.
says an old proverb, which often has
proved true.
Nevertheless the singer Robert gave
lessons in laughter in Paris and i'm Lon
don in 1905, and, SO far at least n.
filling his own purse went. with suc
cess. He held that men and womer
could not laugh "decently and svs
tematically'' without proper training
and said that person who could laugl
only IN one tone seemed TO him Xix,
one who could say only oui and non
but that trained laughter should ex
press many things.
Ii is n curious fact that il is ONLY
among the French ana among the an
clients that we read of people laughin.
themselves to death. We, in our days
must have either more jokes or a dull
er appreciation Of wit Zeuxis is sal,
TO have died Of laughing at a paintin;
OF an old woman, his own handiwork
Philemon expired laughing ut donke,
who ate so cOntentedly the philoso
piers figs that with his last articulat
breath, he sent out his last glass O
wine to the beast, who drank it wit
equal enjoyment and thus proved him
self, it would seem, not such donke
after all.
1t remains true, however, that laugh
ter is good for the health. Laugh an
: grow fat is the old proverb Syden
, ham maintained that the arrival of
clown in n village was as wholesom
as that Of 20 dOnkeys laden with drug.
Tissot, the famous French physician
cured consumption and liver con
plants by causing his patients [
laugh, and Erasmus, through immodel
| ate laughter at the rude Latin of HUI
tens Letters of Obscure Men," brok
an internal abscesS which had lon
plagued him.
when man smiles, and much NOR
f when he laughs, 1t adds something I
} his fragment of life," said Sterne, VIII
r wished laughter enumerated in the ms
terra medica, holding it as n curativ
, of the same kind as coughing, snees
| ing and perhaps vomiting, only niue
t | pleasanter than any of these.