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Show "Laughter a Low Thing" According to one authority, Moltke, the famous German general, only l.iughed twice after attaining years of cllicretlon. The first occasion was when lie heard the news of hlg mother-ln-l;iw' death ; the second, when some one ild him that a military construction J ist outside Stockholm was considered by the Swedes to be a strong fortress. Moltke would have Indorsed Lord Chesterfield's Indictment of laughter pa "a low and unbecoming thing, not to mention the disagreeable noise that It makes, and the Bhocklng contortion of the face that It occasions. ... I mo sure that since 1 have had the full me of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh." Charles Sumner, the American statesman, could make ii similar boast; while, according to Jnhn Martlneau, who was for some time a pupil at Eversley, Charles Ktagslejr never laughed Family Her-ali |