TELL CHARACTER BY LAUGHS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13814, 29 July 1908, Page 9

TELL CHARACTER BY LAUGHS.

I Yotr can tell people's character by their I laughs. Did you ever hear a stingy man I laugh? There are two kinds of stingy- i man laughs. Ono is the querulous squeak | of the miser: the other, the hard, unsym- i pathetic and unwilling noise, without j wrinkles, and of the tight-fisted, self-made coin-squeezer." The general man's laugh is the healthy roar, rising from a chuckle that comes light up- out of good, healthy intellect. . He's the fellow who isn't afraid of disturbing the meeting. Then there's the titter of the harmless youth whose fingers are yellow, indicating no special claim to greatness; the giggle of the gushing girlie who sighs at the problem-play matinee; the indulgent chuckle of the motherly matron who tells the family all about the show ''at the supper table; the staccato laugh, coupled with the Jialf-frown, that belongs to the neurotic; the -wheezing demonstration of the asthmatic gentleman, who has to go to the mountains in hay-fever time; the calculating laugh of the. landlady, thai sounds as though she had just made someone take more prunes.

Oh, every laugh has its distinct character. 1 can tell from the first round just what kind of people are in the house, and very nearly ■ how many of each class. Leslie's Weekly.