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Show ADVICE FROM THE OPTIMIST. Cultivate Humor and Scatter Bleat-Ingt Bleat-Ingt Around You. Humor may not bo n sixth senso or a seventh, but It ought to bo one of tho senses of the well-ordered human being. The man who has no sonso of humor nnd who goes unhumorous and laughterless through his dreary existence exist-ence may have the comfort of knowing know-ing the animals do not laugh nnd that the bray of tho jackass comes nearest an expression of laughter in tho anl. mill creation, writes an optimist In the New York Times. He may have that comfort if he wants It. nut ho should not want It. The thoroughly serious mnn Is of a piece with tho patient nnd somber post that stands In the ground and holds up part of a fence till It rots off. He has a mission, but It Is not a specially enviable one. Hlessed are the cartoonists and the sutlrlsts and tho funmakers. For by enlntglng upon our follies and foibles and consplcultles they awaken us to their elements of the ildiculous and lead us with wisdom to temper exuberance. ex-uberance. Hlessed Is the saving grace of humor. Fo- whero humor Is, treason finds no fertl'e soil, deceit flourishes not, hypocrisy withers and dies, greed is tempered and reason only rules. |
