Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — Humor in the Family. [ARTICLE]

Humor in the Family.

Good humor is rightly reckoned a most valuable aid to happy home life. An equally good and useful faculty is d sense of humor or the capacity to h»ve a little fun along with the humdrum of life. We all know how it brightens things up genially to have a livdy, witty companion, who SMS ths ridiculous pointe of things, and who can turn any annoyance into an occasion for laughter. It does a great deal better to laugh over some domestic mishaps than to cry or sooM over them. Many homes and lives are doll because they are allowed to become too deeply Im pressed with a sense nt the carm and responsibilities of life to recognise Its bright end especially its mirthful side. Into such a household good but dull, the advent of a witty, humoroue friend is like sunshine to a cloudy day. While it is oppressive to hear people constantly striving to ray funny things, ft is comfortable, seeing what a brightener a little fan is to make, weU t o tarn off w> impatient question sometimes and to regard ft from a humorous point of view, instead of becoming irritated about it. “What in the reason I can never find a clean shirt?" exclaimed a good but rather impatient plied: I never could guess conundrums; J. m laughed, anti they both laughed, and she wept and got

Ii find sstuusiod of biwuhclt and he ktesed her, and then she felt happy; and so stoat might have been aa occasion tor hard words and feelings became just the contrary, though the little vela iff humor that cropped out to the surface, borne children have a peculiar faculty for giving a humorous turn to things when they are reproved. It does Inst as well oftentimes- Laughter te better than tears. Let us have a little mon at home.