Show PAID TRIBUTE TO LAUGHTER men of intellect Intelli ct and renown join in n testimony to the value of jollity in life the value of 0 a good natured laugh may be rated low by some people but many writers have attested I 1 its worth in no measured terms it la is not surprising that charles lamb should have said A laugh Is worth a hundred groans in any market I 1 but from the lips ot of the somber bomb er carlyle carlle one la Is scarcely arcely tc prepared to hear bear no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether or irreclaimably bad it was douglas jerrold who boldly stated that what was talked of as the golden chain of jove was nothing m more 0 r e than a succession ot of laughs a e chromatic h r 0 matic scale of merriment reaching from earth to olympus 1 I am persuaded w wrote rote laurence lAuren 6 0 sterne that every time a man stories smiles but rauch more so when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life last of all may be cited the verdict of oliver wendell holmes given with his own inimitable humor the riot out tumult of a laugh I 1 take it Is the mob raw law of the features and propriety the magistrate who reads the riot act the tee sunday magazine magazin |