Show laughter a low thins thine according to one authority moltke the famous german general on only laughed twice after attaining years of discretion the first occasion was when lie he heard the news of his mother in laws death the second when someone some one told him that a military construction J just list outside stockholm was considered by tile the swedes sweden to be a strong fortress moltke would have indorsed endorsed Indor sed lord chesterfields Chester fields indictment of laughter as n low and unbecoming thing not to mention the disagreeable noise that it makes and the shocking contortion of the face that it occasions I 1 am sure that since I 1 have had the full use of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh charles sumner the american statesman could make a similar boast while RC according COrding to john martineau Martl neau who was for some time a pupil at eversley charles charlee kingsley never lau laughed glied family herald |