The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-15

the English family estate greater than
the amount of the heiress' dover; work
IN a gas-htter and make the groom Ms
lahS sheep Tor COWS i'm a painting present
eu ny an artist friend. and. N possible.
nave the bridegroom send one of his wife's
nlscult TO a geologist-what possibilities
lie spread before onei
Leaving now these good old permanent
JOKES good for all timc we would indicate
70 the poor stray philosopher another
class OF jokes, likewise permanent in a
sense for they can never be said 10 die
nHt 70 be called more properly "annu-
dIs' because they are ripe only at GER
idin seasons m each year. There is the
JOKE about the girl and the mistletoe and
the small boys letter to Santa Claus, and
there are The football jokes and the jokes
ABOUT the June graduates and how mis-
taken they are I'm thinking that they
Know anything. Then there is the Joke
ABOUT the summer girl and her engage
ments and nom she Is mot a home" in the
taI' and the joke about the perennially
ignorant young man from the city who
never can learn any hlng about the cOun-
try and asks If hshbites are poisonous
OF mistakes potatoes for wheat. He is
captivating
Besides the ANIMALS there Is another va
rety of jokes which are sometimes funny
ana sometimes not. but the humor Of these
as not dependent upon the seasons There
are some Jokes that are amusing when
ladies' are present. but bahVtsh when men
are alone. n return for these there are
JOKES tear-bringing jokes that lose all
their humOr and should produce merely a
AttiA "a VNltu endurance Inc moment "A
Ituy enters the room. Nothing with a
damn IN II Is amusing In the presence Of
q lady, although the whole essence Of
the humOr may lie In the word damn
When the lady is absent. The philosopher
must disabuse his mind of the idea that
humor remains humor under all clrcum-
stances.
There are some Jokes which depend for
thelr numor on the presence of their sub
Jecis, ana others which lose all flavor the
ample, IL is highly IHrph a R1a 10 T.
IN the presence of a lawyer, that after a
lawyer is dead he Ties stil" but one
sees no point i'm the remark IF the lawyer
is absent. The Englishman joke, on the
contrary, loses It's existence on The ar
rival of the Englishman. Even that sto-
fy IN which we have al delighted the
one about the Englishan who saw no hui
NOR IN the sign Three miles to Yonkers
If you can't read inquire Of the black
smith, and who finally explained his
American friends laughter by saving:
'Aw, l see-the blacksmith might have
Deen out causes an effect of positive
gloom upon all American hearers when
EngLshmen are present. The English
men seem frequently to relish IL very
much. Just here il is perhaps well to
| suggest to the philosopher, since other
wise he would probably see no reason for
SO uolng, mat IL Is customary in all An
glo-Amer-can stories to make the English
man me man who falls to see the joke.
! Inc American joking habit makes this
demand. There are also some Jokes that
are IKE patent leather shoes, sometimes
could learn why. Puns are Of this class.
once every one laughed at them, then no
| one laughed at them. Now people laugh
az some and not at others. ANY particu-
larly meaningless pun, such as:
The maiden slept. The artist came,
ana with his yellow ochre," is very
laughable Just now.
Besides the permanent Jokes and the an
nual jokes and the jokes that pass and
reappear In the changes of fashion, there
are other jokes which appear to bloom
gayly for a season and then pass into
darkness forever. The dry Sunday Joke
was Of this sort; the bloomer girl can
scarce hold out q twelve month more. but
| must follow her predecessor, the type
writer joke, into the river. The new wo-
man joke viii join her there, too, some
day, perhaps, with its ever-recurring
! God made her, let her pass for man. +"
| It is these jokes that will perplex the
| philosopher most, and advice about them
| Is hard to give. The X-ray Jokes seem
| good for some time yet, and any OF the
| new political jokes will Of course call for
| laughter In general we should advise
the philosopher, until he loses the phil
osopher in the social star, TO keep, In his
| own talk, quite strictly to the old, we'll
established, oft-tried permanent Jokes.
and to greet those of the other varieties
| that he hears In the talk Of others with a
| look Of encouragement and a smile re-
| serving his laugh until he gets a cue from
some more Dractisad andffor