| Show Why the Same Caine Muscles Move love When You Laugh When You Cry u TRAGEDY The Mother of Little Augie Jacob Organ Oran New York Gang Leader Who i Wa Wu Killed Weeping Over the Coffin fi of Her Son m in the Cemetery I HE closeness of laughter to tears THE I is proverbial but the tho physical and psychological causes of the phe phe- phenomenon phenomenon are not known to most mast persons Some Somo Very interesting work done re recently re- re recently recently by scientists explains the connection tion and links hysterical laughter and tears with tho the primitive reactions of our prehistoric ancestors Study Stud two of the photographs illustrating ing lag this article they show how two women at at the be graves of their loved ones The one at the left reveals the mother of Little Augle Jacob Organ a New t NewYork NewYork York gunman who was murdered by by gang gang- gangsters gangsters gangsters weeping hysterically at the final resting place of her son at the right hand side of the page is Mrs Airs Ida Garfinkle the sister of Benny Goldstein in hysterics at her brothers brother's grave Benny was another boy from New Yorks York's East Kast Side who was murdered Both these women are weeping bitterly yet Set so fa close to laughter is the facial ex expression ex expression that accompanies tears that they appear to be laughing in the pictures which have not been retouched On tho the theother other hand the photographs in the center show sho two laughing faces But when tears are added to one photo by the the face seems to be crying This is more than a n mere coincidence The rhe emotions that produce wild and un un- uncontrolled uncontrolled controlled laughter are arc often oil en the same samo ones that bring a spasm of weeping Fre Fre- Frequently Frequently the two go together And scientists Lists tell us that many of the same muscles are brought Into play in laughing and crying cring About two years ago fourteen year old Mary Goldhaar who lives In New York City's Bronx was on her way war home from school when an nn automobile hit her on the back of or the head The blow bl lw paralyzed the tri facIal nerve so that afterward she die was unable to either cither laugh h or cry priced High specialists examined her herand herand herand and decided that while the trouble might have been partly psychological the lus Ius muscle controlling her smile as well as the optic muscles controlling her eyes ees f. f x t I p pa a M ry Y b LAUGHTER AND TEARS AND TEARS The Photos Photon Shown Above Are Exactly the Same But in One Two Large Lare Tear Tean Have Been Added Put Pur Your Hand Over Laughing Photo at Left Then Glanc Glance Quickly at the Other She Seems Seem to Be Crying Doesn't She were both affected This indicated the close dose connection between the sources of power which permit one to laugh or cry cry- Cr Literature abounds in instances of the psychological affinity between laughing and crying There is tho the Italian play Laugh Clown Laugh Lau h in which one man afflicted with undying sorrow utters piercing guffaws while another merry and gay ga burst into tears In Victor Hugos Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs the story is told of a child whose muscle was cut by b gypsies so that he lie would wear a perpetual grin even though he was in agony The psychological cause of hysterical laughter and weeping Vc is well brought out by tho the famous Professor l who says that when we indulge in it wo we move a step backward toward our primi primi- primitive primitive tive ancestors You will notice that the outbursts of weeping on the part of Mrs Garfinkle Garfinkle- and nd Mrs Organ took place while they were in the midst of crowds surrounding their loved lo ones one's graves Other persons near them were hysterical too 1 koff says Man under the influence of a n crowd gets J ts into int a n condition like that of a hys hys- hysterical hysterical patient By the mere fact that he forms part of an organized crowd he ho descends Several rungs in tho the ladder of civilization Isolated he may be bo a cult cultivated individual in a crowd he is a crea crea- creature creature ture acting by instinct These instinctive outbursts may come when one is alone but they are arc more apt to happen when one is in a crowd be be- because because cause cau e the effect of many people on one another is often very ery VCr like the power of ot ofa ota a hypnotist over a patient But in either cither case the victim of the outburst may laugh or cry or do both in quick succession Some scientists have discovered that there are certain savage tribes which possess Po sess the ability to laugh heartily or wildly without knowing how to smile Their laughter tends constantly toward hysteria and tears The smile on the other hand Is said to be the controlled and md civilized way wa of expressing pleasure and joy joy- It is serene erene and is never ne associated with sorrow ex ex- except cent when it is worn as a mask to hide other feelings t i r Photograph of Mr ids Ida in in Agony Altony at the Grave Gravo of Her Brother Benny Goldstein Goldtein Who Was Wai Murdered A Casual Glance at the Picture Might Leave Leavo the llie Impression That She Was Wa Smiling 1957 IUT rut Service lea Uw Great Grut K Ruined L a U r I i I 41 T J a |
