“A LAUGH DOETH GOOD.”

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1928, Page 4

“A LAUGH DOETH GOOD.”

“ One of the most serviceable of nl tlie aids to good health is a sense of humour,” writes the medical correspondent of ‘‘Tiie Times Trades and Engineering Supplement,” in one oi those helpful contributions that delight his readers from time to time. “ For a sense of humour enables its possessor to keep on smiling not on 1\ at the cares and afflictions of the world, but also at his own reactions to those cares and afflictions. It enables him to see even his own stomach in a true light. The importance of such vision is far greater than most people realise. At least half of all cases of dyspepsia which vex our age are cases of nervous dyspepsia. The cause lies not in the stomach, but in the nervous system, and the irritated nerves are frequently the victims of black and gloomy ideas and feelings. We believe ourselves isolated, or oppressed, or despised, or in danger of death, and belief becomes a whip laid oil -our brains, Every

organ of the body is thus punished by the same lash, since every organ depends on the brain for its health. Could we but see the funny side of these troubles we should Be saved from fhem. The day may come, sooner than most people expect, on which it will be possible to deal with a dull sense of humour, just as it is possible to-day to deal with a dull sense of hearing.”