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Does Your Laugh Annoyr BY E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS Man is a laughing animal. There are lower animals that laugh. The crow, the goose, the hyena, the owl | and the jackass, all laugh in their | own way. Many men laugh like geese. Some have the canine laugh. | Others have sneering, snarling, or | sardonic laughs. Occasionally men give one another the horse laugh. What Is Laughter? satisfaction in silly or snicker- is pleasurable laughing, even when it is ing laugh. For laughter is ¢ explosion of merriment, or any expression of cheerfulness or gaiety. There is health in a laugh. Does Your Laugh Annoy? Have you analyzed your laugh? Did you ever wonder whether or not_ your laugh Annoyed those around you? There is unin- telligent laughter that stamps one an | inferior Great Men and Laughter On the other hand, there is the contagious, infectious laugh of the sound, sane think the cultured person, the men have always been gre: all laughed their r ° But there was thought behind each laugh. ‘There was gray matter mixed with each outburst. ‘That's why we ask you to dissect your laugh. Find out if it isa commanding and pleasing laugh. Laughter Is a Test of Culture loses its divine fire when it cc igh. We have long felt that we could perform a genuine public service if we were to gather the works of laughter of the world’s truly great masters A cultured people of humor. And we feel that we have reached our goal. We now announce our HUMOR IN 25 VOL- ding of which will provoke explosions of merriment, but which will never cause the laugh that classifies one as inferior. A man is known by his laugh. Let us laugh with the great masters of humor. Here is a library of which we are going bsurdly low price price so inviting that there be no excuse on the ground of expense. We guarantee that he who reads these books will never be ashamed of his laugh. These 25 Volumes Open the Floodgates of Laughter Mark Twain's Jumping Frog, and Other Humorous Tales, In addition to Twain's famous masterpiece this volume contains s by George W. Curtis, Ed: Everett Hale, and Oliver Wendell Holt Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome K Jerome's ever-fresh observations The Humor of Whistler. This great tist found laxa- tion in laugh- ter. A valuable collection of his most amusing thoughts. Humorous Epi | Bernard Shaw. His acid pen makes you think while you E. HALDEMAN.JULIUS Editor, Library of Humor laugh Lets Laugh. Petroleum V. Nasby was | Lincoln’s favorite humorist | Charles Lamb's Essays. The best works of one of the supreme humorists of the ages. 25,000 Laughs in 25 books were issued in the y they might cost you as much We have decided to all of them for If thes ordinary wa} as a hundred dollars. issue them so you can get the price of ‘one ordinary book. That sounds inviting, doesn’t it? And we an it, too. Here are 25 books, containing 2,176 pages of t ull neatly printed on good book paper 3!4x5 inches in size, bound securely in card cover paper. You can take these books with you when you go to and from work. You read them in your spare moments can slip four or five of them into and they will not bulge. You ean, for slight cost, get the best humor of the world’s most gifted ators—and the price will be so low a tonish you. No, the price will not be for the 25 volumes Nor will the price b The price will be even less than half that sum. Yes, we mean it. Believe it or not, the price will be only $1.95 for the entire library. 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