HUMOUR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 6

HUMOUR.

(By WALT MASON.) If on® has humour in his make-up, u tlie darlin S <hild of luck; for .i troubles life can rake up slid© oil like water from a duck. If humour’s in your composition, you laugh where other fellows swear, and no adventure or condition can fill your bosom with despair. Ah, me, I pity some poor mortals who cannot laugh at their own grief; you cannot make them thmk that _ chortles bring to our tioubles quick relief. They’re always prompt to laugh at others, they see the fun in neighbours' cares; they laugh when they behold their brothers go falling down nine flights of stairs. Eut their own grief’s another matter —there s nothing humorous in that; they hand out grievous groans and splatter all kinds of tears around the flat. It is not humour that inspires you if you ha-ha at other’s woe, while your own trouble only tires vou, and makes the well known briny ‘flow. If you can laugh at your own troubles, you have- true humour in your heart, and you can look on woes as bubbles —you have a sMve for every smart.