The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-23
HOW PEOPLE LAUGH
NAPOLEON MADE HIS SOLDIERS RAISE
LAUGH THAT WON A BATTLE


1t is Said That Laughter Was First
Used when Adaa, on Awakening,
Saw Eve BY His side.
SiAos tAs days Of Adam, who said 70
haze mNsntsd laughter when he awoks
and cav I've by ais side, no tive pee
pie lave laughed alike. The laugh b
as distiAct an the voice. Women laugh
dlR~satly from men, childrea from
wom@; indeed, even the laugh of .
fuu-boardel man is different from
that which he laughs when he has
shaved
Tns Able DamascsAt thought he had
discovered In the various NAuncistioRs
81 Laughter . sure guide to thA temper
aments Of the lauGAArs. Thus he said:
IA! Hal Hal" hAleRSsd to asholSris
person; "He! ko! Mel" 70 a phlsaAAt-
ic enc, and No! No. He!" 70 the saA-
guiAO. And II 10 Q OeiSAtiAs fast that
while men ceRmoAly laugh In A and
o, women usually lsuUAt Z and l.
Those who practice Laughing to any
extent have hesa divided wittily late
dtmplOrs- and to know how charming
they can be, oa0 has oAly to 20 back
to Charles RSAA0's "SiRDleton with =
DIMpls"-smilers, griRAora, horse
lauGhsrs and snsNrSrs. This In TO lay
down q soisnes OF laughing, for which
there miOAt have hNaA Aoea he'd our
generals in the lAGa war taken UP the
! idea Of old BuloW, WAC proposed to
form ueNR1, in face Of the enemy, In
limo Of battle and order them 10 ad-
vance with their arms at q shoulder
and salute the AOS with ringing bursts
OF laughter.
Pc sure" said Rulow, that your
opponents, surprised ana disnayed at
this astonishing salute, would turn
about and run of.
Perhaps this scheme would not wOTh
now. while the present long range ar
tillery is used; but as a matter Of fact
1t is related that the Namelukss oAcG
turned tail fVoM a assault upon the
French in Egypt On hearing the roar
OF laughter With which Napoleon's vet
Grams greeted the command: Form
in squares, asses and men OF scieAcl
in the centre"
Great men often have fanci0d 1t 9
part Of greatness to refrain from hilar.
ity. Philip ". OF Spain is said to have
laughed emily once in his life. Thai
was wksn hh bride, Anne OF Austria
wept at hearing that the Queens Of
Spain had no tsst. she tSok with Ger
man litsralnsSs an cid piece Of Span
ish courtesy. Az shs was journsyinl
toward Spain sOns German nuns net
her. and desired to pressat s0me stock
in0s Of their own k4itting. Th'
worthy Princes wAs about to aecept
the gift WhsA 4 Spanish Sraadee OF hsl
/ fMt-fArA1 ri ~
1t would DO aaAiA3t etiquette, as thG
Queens OF Spain were not supposed Il
have any use for stockings, Whsreat
the Princess ba0An to weep, under
standing, poor WonAA, that on her ar.
rival In Spain her feet would be cu
off.
Lord Chesterfield said: Nobody hal
seen ne laugh since I have come Il
my reason" and ConSrsvS makes hk
Lord Froth in the Double Dealer
say: When l laugh l always laugh
alone" Young people and fools lausf
easily, says an old proverb, which Of
ten has proved trus
Nevertheless, the singer Robsr
gave lessons in laughter in Paris and
in London In 1895. and, so far at leas
a. filing his own purse went, with
success. He held that men and wo
men could not laugh "decently and syE
tematically" without proper training
and said that a person who could laugh
only in enc tone seemed to him like
one who could say only oui and non;
but that trained laughter should ex.
press many things.
1t is a curious fact that it is only
among the French and among the an
clients that we read Of people laughing
themselves to death. We. in our days
must have either more jokes or a dull.
er appreciation OF wit Zeuxis is said
to have died of laughing at a painting
OF an old woman, his own handiwork
Philemon expired laughing at a don
key who ate so contentedly the phil.
osophsr's figs that with his last ar
ticulate breath, he sent out his last
glass OF wine to the beast, who drank II
with equal enjoyment, and thus proved
himself, it would seem, not such q
donkey after ALL
1t remains true, however, that laugh.
ter is good for the health. Laugh
and grow fat" il the old proverb. Sy.
denhan maintained that the arrival oil
a clown in a village 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, and Erasmus, through i'm
moderate laughter at the rude Latin oil
Hutten's Letters Of Obscure Men, y
broke an internal abscess which had
long plagued him.
When a man smiles, and much
more when he laughs. IL 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, sneszing. and perhaps vomiting,
only much pleasanter than any OF
these"