LAUGHTER

Maybe it's just me, but I think people need to laugh more.  Here's a quotation from a 1922 New York Tribune......

"When you are jovial, your health is good.  Laughter is the greatest of all physical exercise.  A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically.  It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods.  There is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood vessels that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsion caused by good, hearty laughter.

"'Laughter,' says Dr. Hudeland, is an external expression of joy:  It is the most salutary of all bodily movements, for it agitates both the body and the soul at the same time, promotes digestion, circulation and perspiration and enlivens the vital power in every organ.'

"Laugh every day.  If you can't do it naturally, do it as a matter of duty, or conscience.  Laugh without cause and the cause will come.  If you can't laugh, smile.  A smile is a young laugh, a bud of a laugh, a laugh in the kindergarten stage of development.

"Let us have more robust, full-blooded, whole-souled, clean laughter of the kind that a man can share with his family as he would a pie--laughter that lapses into a long trail of reminiscent chuckles like the faint dying away of an echo."