Show 0 I I Laugh at It and You Are I I II I I II I Superior i By DR FRANK CRANE I Xo No man hates him at whom he can laugh wr wrote te Ben lien Jonson In the sixteenth century We Ie hate that which we fear and we never fear tear What we arc are able ablo to laugh at When we laugh at nt something It Is Indicative of ot ofa ofa ota a feeling of superiority The reason we laugh at the farmer fanner who buys the gold brick in the vaudeville show Is because we feel that we would uld know better Wo We feel superior to him When someone makes mistakes we have outgrown outgrown outgrown out out- grown we can laugh Indulgently because we know better and feel superior I I The same samei I is tru true In the happenings of ot life lite Those things you OU are able to laugh It at a are the ones over I which you feel superior and nd those at which which you 1 are unable to laugh you fear i f It Is Js when you are able t laugh at super superstition and the bugaboos of ot Ignorance that you demon demon- i I strate you rou have advanced ad beyond them I When you accept them hem with deadly seriousness you demonstrate that you OU are their dupe If It you can laugh at personal slights and hurts it It I shows you are superior to them i I When you can laugh at your own on embarrassing predicament It shows that you you are bigger than they are If It you can laugh at the sudden heaping up of ot bad luck It shows you are still unvanquished It Is when you can laugh laugh at at yourself at your own mistakes and foibles foibles that you demonstrate you you have sanity and nd balance I It is when you OU can no no longer laugh at life Ute that worry begins to to- consume your heart As long as you can laugh at your misfortunes mistakes and embarrassments yon show how that you are still superior t to to- them Copyright 1925 1923 b by McClure Newspaper per Syndicate |