Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29

| Fl [ were a FAIRY GOdmOtner VINO cOulu
| kiss a girl baby and therefore bestow
- upon her the supreme gift of life, 1
would net put purse of golC into the tiny
hands, nor would I change her into future
vamp; neither would / endow her with what
oil Fashioned novelsts used to call the fatal
gift of beauty.
| I would bestow upon her sense Of humor.
| I would give ner an enlarged funny bone
that was easily tickled. I would give her a
laugh hung on hair trigger, that the very
contrariness and ironies of CxisteA &c would
explode at the first touch.
| For a sense of humor is the magic that
| takes the bitterness out Of the cup Of gall
and worm NC Cd that all of us must drink at
times 1t contains the secret of how to be
happy though miserable 1t is the silver lin
| ing to every cloud of misfortune. 1t is bet
ter medicine than any doctors little black
| bag contains. 1t is the courage that gives
us the strength to endure, and the philosophy
| to bear without breaking.
1t is lamp to our feet, and a shield and
buckler to our souls. 1t is more efficacious
| than any other one thing to keep us from
making fools of ourselves. For the only way
to keep people from laughing at our follies
| is to be able to laugh at them ourselves. And
do it first.
| Of course, it is highly desirable that both
men and women should have a sense of hu-
| NOR, but it is more necessary that women
| should have it than men because there are
so many things in a woman's life over which
she must either laugh or cry, and she is so
much happier herself, and Sc much more
agreeable to live with, if she can chuckle in
stead of weep.
There are millions of trifIes that happen
to woman that are tragedies, or comedies,
| according to the way she sees them.
| Generations of brides have gone into hys-
| terics over burnt pies yet Mr.. Charlie Chap
| lin has accumulated he riches Of Croesus by
| demonstrating that a custard pie is a source
of humor instead of tears. Uncounted num-
| bers of women are at this very moment dis
| solved in brine over the servant problem
and sobbing out the story of how their
| Hildas, or NoraS, Dnahs put sugar instead
| of salt in the soup, and burnt the roast, and
balled up the oinner when they had company,
and were trying to act as if they had buffers
| and parlor maids, instead of just one maid
| of all work.
| Yet our most hilarious farces are built
| around just such dc nestle misadventures
| and if women only had a sense of humor
that enabled them to see the fun of the sit
uation at the time as they often do see it in
retrospect, what lot of worry and pocket
| hankerchiefs could be saved
| Most wives pray for the patience of Job,
| and the wisdom of Solomon in dealing with
| their husbands. What they should petition
| Heaven to grant them is sense of humor, for
| the trouble with most wives is that they take
their husbands too seriously. They magnify
fvibles into faults. They see deep, dark de-
| sig.s in chance words or acts; they brood
| over imagined Sights and lose sleep fearing
| they have lost the love OF a man who sticks
| to his fireside like house cat when it is all
| t. laugh, instead of weep.
Without doubt, it takes woman with a
keen sense of humor to regard her husband
| as joke, and to laugh with him, and lit
| tie at him, when he occasionally takes a glass
| too much Of wine, or loses more than he car
afford at poker, or when he lets some pref
| ty little chicken, young enough to be his
| daughter flatter him into making an elder
| ly spectacle of himself. Yet surely, the wife
who can smile at these vagaries of hus-
| band, and see that they really mean nothing,