Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1918 — Laughing and Good Breeding. [ARTICLE]

Laughing and Good Breeding.

Valuable as a good laugh and a happy smile are for men and women In every activity, there are ami always have been some stiffnecked, proper folk who have been a little suspicious of the good breeding of a hearty laugh, asserts an exchange. We have all heard women of the old school of manners admit reluctantly that they “had to laugh” at a play they went to see, as if there were something too crude for well-bred folk in a hearty laugh, and if you could but face the audience instead of the stage during the performance of a taking comedy you would see here and there prim, proper folk pulling their faces straight the moment the curtain goes down and the lights go up for fear some one might think they had so far forgotten their manners as to share in the general laughter.