p. 809 | GIGGLING GIRLS by The Christian

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 51.

GIGGLING GIRLS.

By The Christian

THERE are persons who giggle on every occasion—when they speak, or when they have nothing to say, when they meet friends, when they retail gossip, when they visit, and when they converse; ever and anon the sensitive ear is pained by this shallow, senseless giggle, which means nothing and expresses nothing but the emptiness and shallowness of the giggler's soul.

It is not necessary to laugh unless there is something to laugh at. No person is bound to giggle out of compliment to company, and as for making one's self agreeable by giggling, such an undertaking is hopeless. People who love laughter and mirth hate the empty mockery of giggling girls.

Good friends, there is nothing wrong in silence. A person may be sober and yet be sensible. A hollow laugh is no sign of gladness or good cheer. A faint and kindly smile which speaks of friendly interest and genuine good will is worth a thousand silly, girlish giggles, which tell of empty hearts and sometimes empty heads.

Good friends, please do not giggle.

Laugh if you will, if you have anything to laugh at, but don't undertake to giggle your way through this world, and only win a reputation for foolishness and emptiness thereby. Let your aspect have in it something of sincerity, candor, frankness, and good common sense, and you will find that it will make you a dozen friends where empty giggling will not make you one. And the friends who come to us through candor and frankness and faithfulness are friends that are worth having, and who remain and stand by us; but gigglers do not know what true friendship means, nor do they understand how to exercise it.—The Christian.