Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-31


fun is supposed TO come from the subject.
\ favorite subject is the mother-in law
who seems to alllict her daughters husband
the world over / do not remember any
French example corresponding to Fanny
Ferns Indictment of the husbands mother
written in behalf of American wives many
years ago
One of these April fool documents is the
announcement of an exposition of mothers
in-laW. 1t is dated from the ministry of old
arts and old paintings the minister of fine
arts in the government has the general direc-
ton OF fairs and eXpoSitiOns). The notice
invites all and sundry men to send on their
mOther-ln-law by express package labeled
Right side up with care-not breakaDle "
on condition, however. that she can figure
as Il curiosity. If she is not reclaimed after
the exposition, notice is given that she will
De sent to the Jardin d'Acclimation and be
put in the department of seals medal
Is to be given to her who has never spoken
i'll of her Son-in-law.
The Frenchman is not yet done with her
He has form of bank check (the blank is
LETT Tor the real name) by which he promis-
es SO many slapS in the face well told In
the hunters license, he is forbidden to
bring his mOthcrin-law along as "a mis-
fortune happens so quickly" Then there is
her lettre de faire part, or invitation to her
funeral, black bordered, with a cross duly
placed at the head. The fun is coarse and
CHASTITY, as well as heartless. The poor
mother-in-law is described having been
out in her fifty ninth year, and really il was
not too SOON. After an amount of puns
and other attempts at wit, the Son-in- law
gives specimen of the funeral Grafton
which he purposes prOnouncing himself
From an April fool rent receipt the reader
may learn something of French law and
taxation.
Rent receipt, the undersigned pro-
prietor of house situated at = street
acknowledge to have received from Mon
sieur ----- the sum of fifty kicks for three
months rent due April of the present year
for room which he occupies in the said
house as locataire." locataire rents from
the original proprietor of an APARTMENT
house. and pays the municipal taxes.
AT the side are printed. in exact im.a-
tlon OF a real rent receipt, like sum in
arithmetic rent so much; doors and
Windows, so much; municipal taxes and
water" so much: stamp" so much That
is to say. the old feudal tax on houses ac-
cordinS to the number and size of their
doors and windows, is still exacted by the
French state, while the stamp, without
which no receipt or contract is valid indi-
Gates another means of raising government
revenue.
An "amiabe notice" of the tenants de-
sire to quit the premises is a fayorite at
tenton served on landlords 1t is in perfect
forms as to paper, type and language; and
1t might easily fool busy man, until he
came to the statement that the premises are
nothing but a box of bedbugS. IN B-LThe
tenants required to make as good as
new the rooms which they found in a bad
state en- entering. They also engage them
selves to make up any losses which the pro-
prietor may suffer in his private fortune
So the April fool documents come down on
Paris like the SnoWfakes of 4 blizzard
They last a day, and, numberless as they
are, they only help to fill out what is a
carnival of innocent lying, imposition and
trickery of a people who would always
rather amuse themselves by trickery Still it
is not pleasant for lady to find a dozen la
boring men gathered in her hallway, waiting
to assist her to move her furniture to another
apartment, according to a notice given by
some joker. To pacify them she must give
out drink money. Sometimes idle fellows
have a good penman write letters for them
for the sake of such small blackmail on
the LIST of April. In the government Off res
an unpopular usher will be annoyed all day
by people coming. in accordance with a
profeSsed summons to see the head of the
department. But the WickedeSt of all the
April fools is when Il crowd of Schoolboys
have sent to some vain youth of their class
a letter pretending to be from some the
atrical star, declaring her love and giving
him a rendezvous. He will walk an hour,
swelled out with pride, only to be humili-
ated at last by the light taunts of his mates.
Hey, Julot! Why don't the lady Gomez
"Hey, Julot! April fish"
STERLING HELLO.