1. LAUGHTER EXPRESSIVE OF CHARACTER.--Laughter is very expressive of
character. Those who laugh very heartily have much cordiality and
whole-souledness of character, except that those who laugh heartily at
trifles have much feeling, yet little sense. Those whose giggles are rapid
but light, have much intensity of feeling, yet lack power; whereas those
who combine rapidity with force in laughing, combine them in character.
2. VULGAR LAUGH.--Vulgar persons always laugh vulgarly, and refined persons
show refinement in their laugh. Those who ha, ha right out, unreservedly,
have no cunning, and are open-hearted in everything; while those who
suppress laughter, and try to control their countenances in it, are more or
less secretive. Those who laugh with their mouths closed are non-committal;
while those who throw it wide open are unguarded and unequivocal in
character.
3. SUPPRESSED LAUGHTER.--Those who, suppressing laughter for a while, burst
forth volcano-like, have strong characteristics, but are well-governed, yet
violent when they give way to their feelings. Then there is the
intellectual laugh, the love laugh, the horse laugh, the philoprogenitive
laugh, the friendly laugh, and many other kinds of laugh, each indicative
of corresponding mental developments.