Show LAUGHTER NOT ALWAYS GOOD evidences of merriment sometime by no mean satisfying of course you have heard said the man with a sensitive ear a laugh that jarred I 1 don t mean he continued so much a laugh at an anop fortune time 1 imagine we have u 1 heard such laughs as a laugh the quality of which Is unpleasant there Is something contagious in laughter of the right kind even though you may be the object ot it it bubble from the well of good humor there Is no hidden thought or arrlene gensee as the t rench say behind it it Is the essence of frankness it Is spontaneous and whole and it cleanses the system of the laughter and too of the hearer e a spiritual bath but there are other kinds of laugh ter the sneering laugh Is perhaps the most familiar then there Is a quiet laugh a sibilant secretive sort of laugh that Is quite as certain to mean mischief another laugh dis agreeable in its nature Is the high pitched nervous that either from embarrassment or la a mere vocal habit the worst laugh of all however to my mind Is that mirthless sound provoked by the distress or embarrassment of others and it rasps naturally most of all the object calling it forth A person laughed at and hurt never forgets the experience |