Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28

I ing givn way to mirth at very inopportune times
and so losing the lover or husband.
Poets pre-eminenty sensitive mortals and
susceptible to the moods Of Others. Many are
the names of our posy writer's who have had
their love rudely- shaken and their ROSY dreams
shattered by a laugh
Chief among Mr.. Rand's collection in this cate
CORY Poe, Shelly, Byron and Rosett. This
quartette all speak bitterly of the heartless laugh
of lovely woman.
THE LAUGH OF THE SHREW
Balzac William HaNitt, Stevenson and Emer.
son write about the power to win and the quality
which estranges to be found in womans laugh.
Hazlitt writes: The laugh of a good woman is
as the benediction of angels. The laugh of
shrew tears the heart.
| Speaking of shrews, there was nothing which
go infuriated Petruchio as Katharnas mocking
laugh, and although It didn't lose her her hus-
band, when Petruchio came a-wooing, we are led
to believe that many previous sutor had been
frightened off by its scornful notes.
NO WEDDING BELLS FOR HER
Among the most recent of the stories collected
by Mr.. Rand are these four. About six weeks
ago young man walking with his bride to
the village church of Simmenthal, Switzerland,
when the former slipped in the and fell.
At this mshap the girl burst into such uncon-
trollable ft of laughter that the bridegroom, on
rising, broke off the engagement in vehement
terms, and left the unsympathetic bride to con-
tinue her way to the church alone, there to ex-
plain to the expectant crowd of relatives and
friends the reason Of her lovers absence.
This is by the only occasion on
which untmely merrment has parted an engaged
couple almost at the steps of the altar. A short
while ago an east end couple were with the
bridegroom's father and mother, driving to the
church in four-wheeler matrimony bent
The old couple were dressed in their best; in
deed their smartness bordered on the grotesque
which SO tickled the brides sense of humor
that she was unable to control her mirth, the
objects whereof were so angered that they
stopped and alighted their example being prompt
ly followed by their son. who declared that he
could never marry girl who would make fun
of his parents
Equally detrimental to young couples happ
ness was the presence Of the bridegroom's father
in-aw in Birmingham wedding party that
were accompanying the principals to the church
On the way the old gentleman waxed exceeding
ly jocose and so amused the bride with his conf
calities that she could no longer restrain her
nirth and despite the protestations of her hance
literally shook with laughter. Unable to endure
such inordnate levity, the young fellow took him
self off then and there, leaving the glrl to the
care of his father who being widower, subse
ouently displaced his sedate in her affections,
and ere year elapsed, made her his wife.
HER NIERRIMENT MISJUDGED
At the altar of Hamstead Road church
couple presented themselves to be married. The
bride was excessively nervous and scarcely had the
ceremony commenced when her nervousness found
expression in a succession of gggles that grew
so loud and disconcerting that the clergyman
closed his book and refused to continue the SER
vice The bridegroom thereupon demonstrated
with his bride and, as he put her behavior down,
not to the true cause, but to levity of conduct,
his reproof threw the girl into Mysteries. Upon
her recovery the couple departed, unmarried. Nor
were they ever united, for thinking her as frivo-
| Ions as she considered him heartless, the young
man refused to put his future happiness in her
keeping :,
This quartet forms the last chapter in Mr..
Rands book to date, but he has by no means
written fnis He is ever on the lookout for dis
astrous laughs and he declares that the crucial
fest Of the woman he marries, if he ever does
marry will be her laugh. Does she know when
TO make merry and when to present serious
face; is her laugh sincere; can she make the
echoes ring with the music of her laugh when
occasion demands such hearty mirth, and does
she know the fitness and beauty of quiet smile!
These are the questions which Mr. Rand will
settle satisfactorily before he turns Benedict
| Although he is determined to avoid jarring
/ laugh Mr.. Rand is equally determined to never
marry woman who does not laugh, for he
/ agrees with Thackeray, who said in his Sketches
and Travels in London" ga woman without
laugh in her is the greatest bore in existence"