THE LAUGH THAT EINGS.
A young man who is credited by hia friends with being a good deal of a philosopher penned me up in a corner today and harangued me as follows :— " Did you ever study the human laugh as an index to human character ? It is an infallible test, me boy. Did you ever know a iran who simpered and giggled like a girl who wasn't a sneak in hia heart ? And on tie contrary, did you ever know a fellow who laughed squarely out with a good hone3t roar who wasn't the prince of good fellows ? A. shrill laugh ia indicative of deceit, and a deep chuckle proves sincerity and good nature. By this I don't mean that a man* with a tenor voice can'fc laugh aa though he was honest, or one with a bass voice cover his insincerity with a mere bellow. It's the ring that talks. If the laugh had no ring in it you can put the fellow down as a half-hearted cuss, no matter if his laugh is loud enough to lift the roof of the auditorium. Stand twenty men up in a row before me and do something to get them all laughing, and I'll separate the good fellows from the Miss Nancies about as quickly a 9 you could get outside of a beefsteak after a year's famine. See?" I said I saw, and made a Buccessf ul divo for liberty.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6989, 18 October 1890, Page 3
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THE LAUGH THAT EINGS.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 6989, 18 October 1890, Page 3
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