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There is a hoy who never laugh, and cience is investigating" him.
He is the "find" of Dr. C. W. Kimmins, psychologist and educationist, who told of his discovery in an address on "The Sense of Visual Humour in Children," deliver- ed to the psychology section of the British Association last month,
When asked to give an account of the funniest night he had ever seen," said Dr. Kimmins, this boy, who is fourteen years of age. said he had never seen a funny sight. Inquiries seemed to indicate that he never derives any pleasure from the contemplation of a humorous situation... He is quite intelligent.
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When he was asked if he ever went to the cinema e' replied. Oh, yes, I go be cause the other boys go, but I have never seen anything in the cinema to laugh
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• It is an interesting case," commented: Dr. Kimmins, and will be further in- estigated."
Professor McDongall has developed a new theory of laughter, the basis of which is that if you did not laugh you would have a pain. His way of putting it is: The biological function of laughter is defence of the organism against die many minor paits to which man is exposed! by reason of the high sensitivity of his primi- tive sympathetic tendencies
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Dr. Kimmins and is doubts about this, and instanced, as a cause of laughter, what he called the typical case" of the fat man in the street wildly pursuing hist hat on a windy day.
I cannot imagine," he said, "such a sight injuriously affecting the most highly sensitive onlooker.
Dr. Kimmins has been finding out, what! fanny sights make children laugh most. In the domestic life of the child," he kaid, the dog and cat are retained on the pedestal of the fairy story, and are chdowed by the children with a much higher range of ability and intelligence than is granted to then by adults,"
A classification of allult relatives who make the children laugh was unflattering to father and uncle. The mother," said Dr. Kinamins, "is rarely the object who provokes laughter. It generally the uncle, and less frequently, the father. Occasionally the aunt appears as the mirth-provoking element." He added that children frequently rejoiced at the failure of father, but never criticised mother. He quoted one girl, who remarked: It takes
a lot to make father laugh, at even he had to join in."
HARVEST OF HUMOUR.
Dr. Kintains said that occurrences in trains, tramcars; and omnibuses provided. a rich harvest of humorous situations which were much quoted by children of ull classes.
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He gave us yuical examples these two records by a boy and a girl--
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One evening my mother and I were Distries Railway train which wie rather crowded. Wheit the train" stopped at a station a woman entered the train. A man rose, and the woman said, 'It is quite all right, keep your sent, for I am going to get out soon. With that she pashed him back into his seat. Again the! man rose, and again the lady pushed him back. The man, after being pushed back three times, said, When youve finished! I want to get out."
The girl:-
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One day my brother, nuntic, and I' were travelling on the Underground Rail- way. There was an automatic machine standing in a corner where you put the! money is and the tiket falls out. My brother said to auntie,That is where you gut the tickets, so auntie walked up to: the machine, bent her head down and asked the machine for three to Padding- ton. Of course, we all started laughing, even auntie.",
Dr. Kimmins laid down the great funila- mental truth that the man who provokes most mirth in street,nccidents is nearly always a fat man
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