WATCH HIS LAUGH!

Taihape Daily Times, 19 April 1918, Page 3

WATCH HIS LAUGH!

The leopard cannot change his spots, nor the laugher his laugh. It is as characteristic as his nose or the colour of his eyes. No polish or educational veneer can alter the laugh much in quality and, tone, although it may soften it. "Set, even then, in an unguarded moment, the old laugh rings or cackles, or explodes, and the show is given away. A man to be avoided, to be passed by on the other side, is the man who laughs without smiling. The man who laughs like a mask or a ventriloquist’s puppet. His face wrinkles. He makes a noise. But he is smileless as a rooster when cackling. Take it fr o m me, that, man is hard, relentless, cruel malignant. The far-seeing man with a sense of humour laughs in his throat with spasmodic little bursts. He looks before he leaps. He takes a good survey of himself. Neither laughter nor speech escapes easily. He lets them out judiciously.

People who laugh inside, shake their shoulders, and go red in the face are generally a good-tempered "sort, generous, above board. But look round the corner when you dee the man, coming who swallows his laugh as though it would defile his lips. If he is your master he will sweat you; if your parent, he will bully you; if your husband, he will make you miserable. (