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Show I AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES j V 1 Ud i D Olfi BIjI FT A brand new weapon against band- i itry has been discovered. Any wo-man wo-man can use It- It's cheap and easy to ! operate anil always ready on a nio- j nil nt 4 notice. It'.- nothing but laughter. "Woman's laugh unnerves boy thief," reads tho caption In a dally I newspaper "Drops his gun and runs away." the sub head adds. That girl had the right idea. If1 she had screamed the young medal would have thought he must b :er. e fellow nnJ stuck to hia nefarious business. But when ho heard laughter, laugh-ter, ho lost confidence in himself. "In case of doubt or In time of need, first try laughter," would bo a good motto tor overyons to adopt. There'-, no telling what could bo accomplished Ijv first attempting to laugh your en- in s out of existence. Boy bandits arc not the only nuisance nuis-ance ( who can be laughed out of existence. ex-istence. All sorts of people who take themselves tOQ seriously, either In re-i-i-. ; ti your heart 01 your purse, can be put to flight by a hearty laugh, when threats or argument would bs futile. There's nolhlnK as lata! to the too ardent suitor as laughter. If you don't like ;i chap and wish to hlgb heaver he wouldn't embarass you With .if nllon. lu-.Kii at him Juft j once. Once will be enough. "A man can staud any amount of argument or haughty disdain, when ho rnukes love to u girl," confessed a popular bachelor. Jn fact the more vehement her protests, the more flattered flat-tered he feels. But let her Just giggle gig-gle and It's all off." There are no end of problems which can he giggled right out of the way. If you find yourself getting angry, try laughing first. The chances are that the other fellow will laugh, too. and then the idooy of quarreling over trifles tri-fles will suddenly become perfectly apparent ap-parent And that's not all. Brave women have even ben known to beat poverty pov-erty at Its worst by laughing at it. for there are humorous aspects of that old goblin that only the courageous can see. To be sure there are griefs and hurts which go too deep for tears and too deep tor laughter. They are QOl to bo bluffed, and laughter in the face of dlfilculty is nothing mor- than a gigantic game of bluff. A few of life's uncompromising realities real-ities refuse to be laughed out of exlst- ie e or backed off the boards by bluff. But only a few. fewer In fact than we imagine. Most of them are bluffs themselves, like the boy bandit, who dropped his gun and fled at tho first giggle. So. In tho face of tragedy or at least near-tragedy, let's try laughing laugh-ing first and see what happens. oo |