The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1883-04-07
The Funny Man.

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hind reader. as YOU 81, by your nice
warm nre, or in the rich and yariega,ed
plush eaparisoned sea, OF 4 palace CAR.
.eading your fayorite specially paper, and
I shaking your sides with hearty Laughter.
and spreading your eyes with happy sur
Prise and JOY. did i, ever occur 10 you
;haI. perhaps, when the article that
claimed your attention and admiration
vas written, load as heavy as human
sin and as gloomy Is funeral process
sion may have rested upon the writer 5
heart; shadow dark and sombre may
have spread Its wings over his soul !.
Perhaps bit OF white ribbon or black.
may have marked his front door or a
doctors Carriage stopped a, the from,
gate. The writer of that which amuses
ana charms Is human belng-with all
their aches. pains. troubles and disap-
poil,Inen s-yet 10 read him day alter
day. and week after week. one would
scarcely credit the assertion. While his
writing Is light and AIRY, mere nothinss
bubbling over with fun, rollicking With
merriment. sandwi,ched with sense and
sentiment. soul and pathos. he sits. grim
and sioiid. MAY haps, IN a cherries foefn.
void OF that which brigh,ens and ealtsens.
and grlnds away. paragraph. sketch and
poem, poem, sketch and paragraph. week
N aud week out. farely looking from his
paper or which he traces. IN almost
breathing characters. the words and lines
that charm. amuse. and even coayulsc
with laughter, the millions Of earth IN
habi,aniS He never smiles. bur there he
sits. like 4 machine, scratch. scratch
scratch. until the paper Is filed. and then
a moments respite. and i, /, again
Those who read the funny man. a. ne Is
called. til nN VIVA, happy. merry, oily
sou! re mus, be What happy l!fe Is
his, they think and to think OF HIM IS 70
think OF circus, negro show, camp-mec;-
ing and barbecue OF Christmas. Fourth
OF July and Thanksgiving day ali COM
bned. |, Is impossible 10 divorce him
from fun and Jolly. They look i, HIM
As a wonder. And he is. bu, not the liv-
ing. moving froliekins school boy wonder
they would fancy him. The funny man.
as rule. is dfoae in social circles.
poor company horrid con.crser. and
out of place elsewhere BIZ, in his sanctum
Those who make the most and pures,
fun on paper and very dry, have little 10
/ say. and scarcely know or care for any
thing outside of their work. They are
welded 10 tit Is part and parcel of
F, themselves. Their very looks. generally
melancholy, give one the blues, and a
+ short stay in their presence gives one the
+ !" James ans. and all day with one
would certainly render doctor and a
drug store necessary. No matte. what
happens al home or abroad sickness.
death. marriage or birth. has columns
must sparkle and bristle, TEEN and bub-
bic with good. bright and wholesome hui
NOR that anu ses and cheers the sad and
depressed as we'll as the light-hear,ed and
gay children of the earth. The world
mus; be amused, and he who has essayed
/ the role of funny man. lester or amuser.
has taken upon himself a ,hankless task
+ lie must, to hold his place. do his par,
toward making i; brighter and better,
and drawing Heaven nearer TO earth and
earth farther from Hades. Thousand.
look 10 him for theIi fun as naturally as
they look to their physician for medicine
or their butcher for meat. He must play
we'll his part; move along or the process
sion will run over him and trample him
under foot. No Tagging. no stopping to
administer to the iii. console the weary
or bury the dead. bu, has mission IS 10
amuse the living and JUS; IN accordance
as he does his work here will be m, re-
ward hereafter. He has been gwen these
special qualities, rare and priceless gifts.
and mus, use them for the benefit and
edIfio alton amusement OF his fellow
creatures. Truly, the life OF a funny man
is not all sunshine, and his bed is no;
always roses, yet he probably has has
share Of the good things Of life. HIS life
Is not wholly a gloomy one. yet i, Is no,
nearly 50 cheerful and happy as the
readers would picture.