OCR Text |
Show LAUGHTER NOT ALWAYS GOOD. Evidences of Merriment Sometimes by No Means Satisfying. "Of courso, you havo heard," said tho man with a sensitive ear, "a laugh ft, that Jarred. I don't mean," ho con- Sty tinned, "so much a laugh nt an Inopportune Inop-portune tlmt I lmaglno wo hnvo all heard such laughs as n laugh tho quality of which Is unpleasant. Thero Is something contagious In taughtor Of tho right kind, even though you may bo tho object of it. It bubbles from tho well of good humor; there is no hidden thought, or 'nrrloro ponseo,' as the French say, behind It. It Is tho essenco of frankness; It Is spontaneous spontane-ous and wholcsouled, and It cleanses ho system of tho laughter, and. too, of tho hearer, like a spiritual bath. "Hut thero aro othor kinds of laugh-tor. laugh-tor. Tho sneering laugh Is perhaps the most familiar. Then thoro Is a qulot laugh a sibilant secretive sort c-I laugh that Is qulto as certain to mean mischief. Another laugh, dls-agrocoblo dls-agrocoblo In Its nature. Is tho high-pitched, high-pitched, nervous cachlnntlon that ' comes either from embarrassment or " Is a mere vocal habit. Tho worst laugh of all, however, to my mind, Is that mirthless sound provoked by tho distress or embarrassment of others, and It rasps, naturally, most of all, tho object calling It forth. A person laughed at and hurt nover forgets tho v experience" J |