The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-04

MY DEAR PRESS:
You ask me 81 how i like the lekturing
bizzness," and sswhat success have met
WITH" and what IL the tru natur ov the
lektur hav bin dispensing?"
Briefly thus reply:
Two years ago jined the band ov lektur-
in marters, and hav .tramp'd \"
ever sinse. and az near az kan rekolekt
now, think kant tell.
Mi lektur IL an attempt few be comick.
Humor IL hybrid, and IL q nice cross be-
tween sense and nonsense.
don't think it haz ever bin well defined;
it il like the smell oy flower, hard tew di-
skribe.
Thare il just about OF mulch real humor
in the best ov geniuses az thare IL juise in q
lennon; one squeeze takes it out, and thare
il nothing but seeds and skin left
1t soon bekums hackney d, and its authors
live prekariously for about 8 years on the
fust 5 months ov their reputasllun, and then
60 in their holes and only cum out onst in a
while to sun themselfs and be stupid.
hav known men tew tell 4 good storys,
and then Spite them awl bi telling one poor
one.
Thare IL nothing the world il so slow to
applaud az success, and nothing they are SO
smart at discovering az q failure.
mitch ov a humorist's success depends
protest, but if hiz dinner rides eazy you saiai
tickle him with skoop-shovel.
Humor sum,imes turks in hc-way thing
liz ced, and hav seen men who carried their
fun in the wrinkles ov their face.
/ Nonsense amt humor, it il only jest.
Humor must hav sum truth in il, and
good deal don't hurt it.
/ have seen q fust raft story spite in be-
ing told, and hay seen poor story SO well
told, that if the man had applied for it lie
could hav had it patented and no questions
asked
If an auience refuse tew be tiokled, 20
might az well talk tew e-yard IN the
ded ov winter; but if yu git them onst mel
low WI kan then stick yure thum into them
anywhere.
But mi opinyun is that thare amt no rule
for success with a comck lektur.
A cold blooded philosopher lektur IL just
az cay az turning grinstone: the auience
are obliged tew hold their hatchets on and
they are sure tew git ground out after a
while: but you kant tell a man when tew
laff; he knows what pleazes him, just as
we'll az he knows what eats good; yu kant
| play a burnt slapjack, nor one that ain I
well dun onto him.
sThare amt nothing more straining tew
humorist than tew have tcw stop and ex-
plane ajoke.
I hav just got hum to Boston, pat z
spokes into the hub at fremont Temple the
. two fust nights in FEBRUARY: | lektured 10
nights in Massachusetts.
| don't kno whether it waz success or
not awl kno IL i felt good myself
Humorous lekturs, without the mid Of
| canvass or pantonime, are tutf tew do.
| think now shall either git up philos-
OPTICAL lektur on the cutler oy the Red Sea,
or the hump on the cammers back, or quit
iekturing.
kan steal good philosophical lektur
ont Of sum library, but these cussed humur-
| GUS lekturs hay so mulch original in them
Tor ought to hav) that yin kant kalkulase on
them for certain-,hey are like twins, they
kant be had nor they kant be stopped
Upon the whole, az near az kan guess.
I mi opinyun il that humor IL natral dis
sease that a man kant ketch nor kant Civ
tew enney boldly else. JOSH BILLINGS.