The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-23
Learn to Laugh
eek FIRTH said Oliver Wendell
MI Holmes, lis Gods medicine
1 1 Therefore laugh. How many


N Holmes, is dou meuieiho.
AV4 Therefore laugh. How many
persons in your circle of acquaintance
habituafiy and genuinely laugh?
Most persons smile. -
Some ohuckle. =, =. s
"a Others giggle.
/ Comparatively few are those who laugh
easily, heartily and with gusto.
A laugh, you know, begins down in the
diaphragm and works itself up quickly
into the corners of the mouth, into the
wrinkles of the eyes and then, the face
broadening into pure merriment, let's IT.
self loose naturally and loudly. laugh
of that sort--a real laugh-makes every
body else want to laugh.
Laughter Is a gift.
The man or woman who laughs Is a
CHEEKY optImist, who sees the funny side
of things and who, in the face of dignity
and restraint, pours out his hilarity in
libation to the gods Of merriment.
| Laugh and grow fat.
| 1t is real medicine, because the mind
influences the body in wonderful way,
and he who laughs on slight proyocation
is never far from the kingdom of cheer
fulness
Moreover the mere message of the liver
| and the other organs by the laughing
/ diaphragm is a physical benefit not to
be ignored.
|. Laughter is a social asset.
Whom do you like most about you,
"the lean and hungry Cassius or the
hearty, genial soul that laughsf VINO Is
the social favorite?
The man or woman who has keen
and observant sense of humor who laughs
at the right time when you tell story,
who is most generous In his applause
of laughter when you try to exercise
J, your wit or humor Is 1t not SO?
rl.of rrh iG
timely amused by the passing show and
who good humoredy vents his JOY by
the pleasant noise of mirth is an ac-
ceptable addition to any company.
Learn to laugh. To large extent
the habit may be cultivated, and 1t Is
worth cultivatins. Your instinct OF humor
may be as keen as another's, but you
have repressed the natural propensity to
make a happy sound over 1t.
Learn to laugh. 1t will tide you over
many an Ill and make the world laugh
with you.
Let go all holds Let go and make
noise Let go-and laugh.
His $40 Day
A college graduate bewails the public
taste and laments his lack of opportu-
nifty to use his education.
He says he has spent eight years In
/ preparation since he left the public
schools but no one is seeking his SER
vices. At the same time he knows
young man who quit the common
! schools in the sixth grade who makes
! $40 a day by diving daily from So
foot ladder into tank.
N So? And does the college man think
Hsomebody will hunt him up and beg
|4him to accept $40 day?
m He faces a condition and not the
n ory, for the world of today is askins
! Of a man not so much. What do you
know? but
What can you do?
( The diver cam do something. He
does not know so much as the collie
gian, but he knows part of the pub
lie liles to be thrilled, and he is able
TO thrill it, though at Imminent risk OF
his neck.
The collegian must have learned
somewhere in his eight year course
that, other things being equal, man
is paid according to the service he
renders to his fellows
What service can he render?
The diver can make his high jump
better than another, and to that ex-
tent he Is a specialist.
Now, the advantage of a college ed
ucation, over and above the personal
-sa tisfa ction of 1T, Is in the sharpen
ing of mans mind so that he can do
things better than the man whose
mind has not been so sharpened. Else
why the time and money that is
spent?
M The collegian with all his education
cannot perhaps make q successful high
| dive Into a tank. sssrsf ~ p
But there is something he can do
and do better than the diver, always
provided he is not an educated fool.
Let him find out what he can do,
and then let him begin where all. lit
crate or iiliterate, must begin-at the
bottom
When he has Learned how to do
something worth 81 day or $40 a
day, whether 1t is diving on lad
der, or managing factory or plead
[ ing sheep, or what not. his money is
ready.
A severe test? Yes, and a sordid,
one, but It is the test.
And II the collegian scorns to begin
at the bottom and work up to his $40
day he will be slow in getting it,
The World Grows Better
Said my neighbor-
What trail of corruption has been
over the land! Foulness in San Fran
cisco, graft In Albany, shame in Column
bus, bribery In Springfield, perversion
Of justice in Chicago. tell you the
world is not growing better.
But hold
Think you the world knew nothing Of
craft and greed and graft in the day
Yhen civilization was youug?ss "a Il 81
|YANhy, you may read that 5000 years
" ago, "Samuels sons walked not in his
ways. but turned aside after lucre and
took bribes and perverted Justice" And
the sons Of Samuei are vet with us, e
There is evil In the world and human