The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-21
!. Herbert Leon Cope at Hamilton
chautaAqua Tells just How
Much Laughter Means to
All.
SAYS IT HAS A SOUL
e..iss Yodlers Give Fine Concert in
Afternoon and Prelude to Eve
ning-Assembly Closes
Tomorrow.
rsnecial to The Gate City

rspecial to The Gate City.l
HAMILTON, Ill, Aug. 21.-The
raichtl Alpine singers and yodlers
asve one OF their characteristic pro-
Grams Friday afternoon at the Ham
ilton chautauQua. The numbers in
ended "A Yodeling March" "Hia-
watha Love Melody" a either selec-
tion. Invitation to Dance, The Bell
n the Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong
and number of others.
The evening prelude was given by
This same company, this being their
last appearances. .
DR.. Herbert Leon Cope was the
sneaker. His theme was the phil
osophy of laughter. His lecture was,
~ q great extent made up of comic
stories and was a lecture that to be
annreciated needs to be heard. He
said: 60
Laughter is a serious thing and
ought to be a study at school. Man
il the only being that can laugh and
man is the only being that has soul,
therefore laughter has soul. The
world is full Of fun if we only can
see it. Every bit of fun is made up
If stumbles and mistakes and back
Of it no tragedy.
Some people are 'agin' everything;
the more miserable they are the hap
rier they are. There is class OF
people too good, who believe piety
consists OF a long face and melan-
oboly disposition. If that is true the
iackass ought to be the most plouS
thing in the world Religion not only
means happiness in the next world,
hut also here God is fair, square
God
.The same physical muscles cause
iaughter or tears. Ill temper is
hahit AS bad as the booze habit. In
tbp penitentiary 80 percent of mur-
derers there were criminals through
loss Of temper.
"A laugh is good both mentally and
nhysically. Educated people laugh
most and the old saying laugh and
grow fat is true"
He explained the ills that come to
the physical being from mental de-
preston and said laughter as no
trust. everyone has an equal snare
in it. Laughter is a catching quallty
inst as surely as crouch will start
n row. 1t is never the cause OF
row that makes the bigness of 1t.
Country Furnishes Many.
..Don't think for a minute fellow
from the country is 'rube. Eighty
percent of the fellows from the city
came originally from the country.
.'Td like to be elected congressman
and il / were I'd try to make them
take the eagle off the American doliaf
and put on a chicken" he declared.
"What has an eagle ever done TOT
this country compared to an Ameri-
can hen. Why you can eat them De-
fore they are born and after they
are dead. Just at this time there IS
a great propaganda of national Diues.
In talking with number OF hlgn
government officials all expressed
greatest faith in America.
To-day is the best day, this minute
is the best minute. Nothing IN the
past equals today. There are greater
wonders in the past twenty years than
the seven great wonders of the world
We are always looking to the future
for happiness when it is right here
"a boy is always longing to grow
up so he can earn money and De
happy and spends his later life tell
ing of the happy time he had when
boy
"A house does not make home
nor money or society, but love, laugh
ter and forgiveness. The philosophy
of civilization is the philosophy OF
laughter"
He paid most glowing tribute tt
mothers saying, "God makes mir
acle OF mothers" He spoke of the
great love and forgiveness of mothers
and said" If were to steal horse
mother would swear someone put tho
halter in my hand and reiterated
the saying "home is love. laughter ant
forgiveness"
Today's program consists Of the
Chicago Light Opera company, ant
in the evening lecture by Dougla:
Malloch, the lunberman, philosophel
and poet. On Sunday morning there
will be held union service and in ths
afternoon after a prelude by thu
Chicago Light Opera company, lee
ture on ''1s There Solution for thu
Present Unrest?'' by DR.. Dayit
Hughes of Baltimore, and full con
cert by the Chicago Light Oper;
company, Sunday evening.