Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — Good Humor. [ARTICLE]

Good Humor.

Good humor is rightly reckoned a most valuable aid to happy home life. An equally good and useful faculty is a sense of humor, or the capacity to have a little fan along with the humdrum cares and Works of life. We all know how it brightens up things generally to have a lively, witty companion, who sees the ridiculous points of things, and can turn an annoyance into an occasion for laughter. It does a great deal better to laugh over some domestic mishaps than to civ or scold about them. Many homes and lives are dull because they are allowed to become too deeply impressed with the cares and responsibilities of life to recognize its bright and especially its mirthful side. In such a household, good, but dull, the advent of a witty, humorous friend is like sunshine on a cloudy day. While it is always oppressive to hear persons constantly striving to say witty or fanny things, it is comfortable, seeing what a brightener a little fan is, to make an effort to make some at home. It is well to turn off an impatient question aometimls and to regard it from a humorous point instead of being irritated by it “Wife, what is the reason I never can find a elean shirt ?” exclaimed a good, but rather impatient husband after looking all through the wrong drawer. His wife looked at him steadily for a moment, half inclined to bo provoked; then, with a comical look, she said, “I never guess conundrums; I give it up.” Then he laughed, and they both laughed, and she went and got his shirt, and he felt ashamed of himself and kissed her: and then she felt happy, and so what might have been the occasion for hard words and unkind feelings became just the contrary, all through the little vein of humor that cropped out to the surface. Some people have a peculiar faculty for giving a humorous turn to things when they are reproved. It does just as well oftentimes to things off as to scold them off. Laughter is better than tears. Let us havea little more of it at home. An exchange makes this suggestion for business men: “In all towns where a newspaper is published, every business man ought to advertise in it, even if it is nptoS* kind helps sustain a paper, and lets the people fid! of business men. The paper finds its