WOMEN AND HUMOUR

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 13

WOMEN AND HUMOUR

OFTEN HAS LAST LAUGH

Women have no sense of humour, according to a psychologist. They cannot laugh at themselves in the way that men can. Wo arc not surprised, states a London writer. Women who live closer to life's realities have less time for pawky humour than the male sex; and, again, men are funnier by nature. Men are the romantics and women the realists. It is easy fora man who comes down to a wanned room and a hot breakfast all prepared for him to see the funny side of life. It is not so easy for the woman who has to clean the grate, empty the ashes, and light the- fire in i the cold mornings.

That, perhaps,- is the whole secret of it. Many women have toiled at menial tasks to keep a man in good humour; often they have found their sole reward in the knowledge that they have succeeded.

But no mere man knows what they say about him when they talk among themselves. It is their own little joke they keep for their own sex.

•The . truth of the..: matter -is that woman's humour is different- from man's. And a good thing, too. The world would be impossible if the sexes reacted in exactly the same way to life; if men and women always laughed at the same jokes; iJJ a wife saw every thing in the same light as her husband.

There are too many generalisations about women, none of which is wholly true. We suspect, for instance, that at the next election women will bring their own sense 'of humour to bear on the shortcomings .and pomposities of some of the candidates.

Woman may not have man's sense of humour, but she often lias the last laugh.