LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU!

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 121, 23 January 1915, Page 2

LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU!

THE CONTAGION OF MIRTH. I heard her laught this morning, arc the <iay turned suddenly from grey U rose colour, I wonder who she is, the One Who Laughs? Does she live next door all the time? Somehow I feel as if she were just a ' frequent visitor. . . . How glad they must be to see her when she arrives with that laugh! Is she young, I wonder, and pretty.

ton? It doesn't always follow. The prettiest laugh I know belongs to a wo--3 man who is 60 years old. And she is poor, and not very well, and alone in the world, and I would go 10 miles any day to hear her laugh. When I first met her I didn't under- | stand. , I had heard about her so much. "Do you know Miss Mary?' said the very first woman I met at the very first club I entered in the new town. . . . "Let's get Miss Mary for a ehaperIon," said the very first pretty girl who was planning a house party to the new resort. "Have you asked Miss Mary what to do?" said the man who was talking over plans for a new free library. "Dear me," said I to myself, "I'll have to know Miss Mary, that's one sure thing," and when I did know her I. was very much disappointed at first. She wasn't even executive, and she never thought of being brilliant. ,She must have been pretty once, in a gentle, feminine sort of way—the of prettiness that doesn' leave even a trace after 40—and she wore plain clothes, without, the faintest attempt to be "modern," (