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Show i I It has been a matter of TUT YV7L r YT wonder with me for some Q Why IJo Young Women time thnt yong women are Laugh So Easily? easily moved to mirth (and By H. O. WILLIAMS, Yankton, S. D. RHrne t0 b? t!l feeble witticisms of the av- L- , ' crn.go young man. Very lately a concrete case came under my observation. I frequent the society of young women very little, but the other evening eve-ning a friend of mine persuaded me to offer myself up as the sacrificial complement of a parly of four. He provided the time, the place and the girls. During the course of the evening he continually unloosed a stream of asinine and obvious puns, at which the young woman ho accompanied shook with uncontrollable laughter. On recovering from these sustained attacks, if I had not caught the scintillating remark, she would lean over and repeat it for my especial benefit. At firnt I greeted these repetitions with a look of pained surprise, but ns the evening wore away I steeled myself and at her lnler retailing of the hilariously funny observations I mustered up a respectable amount of appreciation. 1 laughed 1 I have always considered it an unmanly thing to construct jokes in the presence of women, having an idea that they feel bound to laugh out of politeness and that it is cruel and unnatural to link them to make the sacrifice. On the evening I speak of I violated my principles and allowed my wit to gambol, willi I ho result that she laughed at most of my jests. Some were either loo deep or not, funny at nil. Sharp twinges of remorse have racked rne ever since for my conduct. Yet, why do they laugh? Against the young lady in this particular impanel) 1 would he extremely rrluchml. lo make any complaint whatsoever, whatso-ever, for in addition to, being a charming dancer and also wonderfully J cony to look at, ahc lias a rosebud mouth. I uimply oak laiow., |