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Show IT 13 TO LAUQH. '' You Cannot Now Be Popular Without Knowing It. When tho terms for singing lesslons had bcon agreed upon the teacher said: " "For 50 cents a week extra I will give you a losson in laughing, too." ''Laughing?" exclimed the prospect-tlve prospect-tlve pupil. "What shall I laugh at?" "Anything nothing. But you must laugh If you expect to be popular. What Is more, you must laugh out loud. Tho days ot ultra-refinement when merriment could be properly ex-picssed ex-picssed only by a smirk and a smile, nio happily passed. People laugh heartily nowadays, but at the same time thoy should laugh musically. That is, they ought to put a tew all-ery all-ery notos Into their peals ot Joy, and those who are wise enough to study laughing do put them there. Un-not Un-not bo well patronized as they should be. As jet the laughter ot most people peo-ple Is a series of. cacophonlous coughs. Take your owu case, for example. I hoard ou laugh a little while ago, it sounded like " "Yes, I daro say It did," interrupted the prospective pupil, "but I had a good time, just the same." Tho teacner threw back hor head and emitted a merry tintinnabulation of hor own. "There," she said, "you onght to laugh llko that. Ot course all laughs cannot so- : alike. Thero Is tho so-Pt-ano lnuc.., he contralto laugh nnd tho mezzo laugh, the laush 'he-he." the laugh 'Im-ha,' and the laugh 'hollo.' 'ho-llo.' Tho quality of a person's laugh Is largely ormlned by temperament, but no matter what its natural tone. It can be f lned Into :i thing of beauty. beau-ty. Now '.s nil students of singing are advlbed to look for tliolr laugh. Many luno accepted the suggestion, and in six months from now any girl who asplus to Bhlno socially must laugh In fluent trills. Now, for tho sum of onl)vC0 cents " Tho prospective pupil shook hor head tadlj, "I'd HUo to," she said, "but I can't afford It. If It comes to tho worst I shall hao to swear off on laughing altogether." |
