Show HUMOR AND ITS USES it Is the S hashino of the world but way may be overworked humor is the very sunshine of the world writes carrie E F garrett in the s rome home companion compani i on hardly any other single gift will go so far to refresh and inspire one in evex everyday life and keep the heart still young it steals merrily across the workaday kaday world animating the drear iest monotony and finding place in inthe ae most hopeless destiny such a guy gay traveling companion is humor for the pilgrimage il gri age of life the woman with a sense sen e of humor homos has a safeguard against ennui against folly and abt against t despair she can never be dull so long as the comedy of life is being played before her eyes with a keen sense of the ridiculous ridiculous she is n not at lively likely to make a fool of herself and she will never ber be hopelessly unhappy for she will find in the most adverse fue something still to laugh at ai and af after ter all laughter is your true alchemist however it may be with the unmusical person surely the sarv surly individual who cannot laugh spontaneously on occasions is fit for treasons trea sons n stratagems strate gems and spoils but this blead d gift of humor should be wd used to lif the shadows of life not to deepen them A joke which causes another a pang of humiliation or makes some sensitive heartache is not only a cruel sort of amusement but it is also a vory very expensive indulge indulgence nm for just a moments gratification at hav having ing made a hit tile the funny woman inay forever lose a friend and may even arouse a very genuine spirit of enmity enin ity wo we learn to forgive and mayhap I 1 forget many injuries in lifes troubled journey but perhaps among the wounds that rankle longest in the human heart are those which are made only in fun fuit I 1 |