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Show FEW WOMEN LAUGH HEARTILY Whether Due to Lack of Humor or Childhood's Training Is Unknown, But Fact Remains. Women laugh -too little. Whether this' is due to their lack of humor or to childhood's training in gentle manners man-ners may be questioned. Certain it is that a hearty laugh in a woman's voice is rare music. An audience of women rustles with amusement, but seldom laughsJ A group or girls giggle, gig-gle, but do not laugh. A woman reading read-ing the most brilliantly humorous story seldom gets beyond a smile. When Sir Walter Besant, in his clever skit, "The Revolt of Man," pictured the time in the twentieth century when women should have usurped all power political, ecclesiastical and social he shrewdly noted that laughter had died out in England; and when men revolted against their feminine tyrants, ty-rants, they came back to their own with peals of laughter. A Paris doctor doc-tor has recently opened a place for the laughter cure. It is a private institution, and large fees are charged. The patients sit around a room, and at a give nmoment begin to smile at each other. The smile broadens to a grin, and at a signal to a peal of laughter. - Two hours a day of thi3 healthful exercise is said to cure the worst cases of dyspepsia. But whether wheth-er the habit of laughing easily and naturally could be acquired by this process is doubtful. Montreal Herald |