The herald., 1896-03-09
IN THE HOME FOR INFIRM JOKES.

Silence reigned in the funny editors
| sanctum. 1t was also raining out OF doors.
| but that is another story. The editor had
| received a cathode rays of salary. which
| was invisible to the naked eye. and he had
gonc out to spend it. There was sudden
| futtering ii the pigeon-hOles of his desk
| and then the jokes that had lain there be-
gan to crawl out and huddle around the
electric light to get warm. They were a
miserable lot to look at. 1t was pitiable
| TO sec how they tried to hide their age
| from each other by pulling their new
dresses ard coats closer about them, for
any one could see at a glance that their
| freshness had long since departed.
One joke alone sat apart from the others.
This joke was lying at ease right in the
middle of the desk, the coveted place OF
honor. He was on the finest Irish linen
paper and typewritten. He glanced with
a supercilious expression at tho old jokes
| clustered about the electric light. shrugged
| his shoulders and smiled contemptuously.
He was the new Roentgen Photographic
Process joke and he had just come from
abroad.
'Humph." exclaimed the Mother-ln-Law
Joke. as she pulled a threadbare shawl
closer about her scrawnv shoulders "some
people put on heap Of airs! Every joke
has his day, my fine scientific friend. as
you VIII discover TO your cost before long
Why, / remember when I was considered
! the funniest joke in the paper There
wasn't an issue of Punch that 1 was not
in and"
Don't notice him. my dear" said the
Summer Girl Joke. "You are simply draw
ing attention to your own age and
well. you are a trne passe yourself"
snapped the Bloomer Joke. land how you
can go about in this weather in a last sea-
| sons bathing dress is more than L"
Come off, cried the Goat Joke.
9. Won't" screamed the Bloofher Joke,
"and you are Just horrid to suggest such
a thing. I don't wonder. though seeing
that you've been living on vulgar circus
posters and tomato cans all your
Don't say anything against the tomato
can put in the Weary Wraggles Joke.
''It is my stock in trade"
"Stockin' trade isn't so bad" said the
Bargain Dav Joke, "but it's old. All of
them are. Why 7 heard only to-day that
the Roentgen Process Joke was as old as
the pyramids and that the ancient Egyptian
scientists had"
81 hat is not So" exclaimed the Roentgen
Photographic Process Joke from his place
in tie middle of the desk. 81 am brand
new"
"And anv one can see through you at a
glance" Uttered the Ricvcle Joke; ''you
give me that tired feeling"
81 don't 8pprove of cathode 1ieht humor
nlvse'f." said the Undertaken Joke
well, I'm read anyhow cried the
Roentsen Photographic Process Joke,
angriv.
Indeed" c-ied the Amateur Photos-
fapher Joke. 81 heard YOU were ro'oress. ="
What does that mean" pned the Pre-
! cocous Child Joke from Harper's Drawer.
''Why. read red read YOU idiot non't
YOU see?' ssd the Rording House Steak
Joke in a tough tone. "Cant YOU see
through little thing like thet?'
II can.' cried the Roentoen Photogra nhic
Process Joke N a triumnhant tone. 'hut 7
draw the line at you. Mr.. r n Reefeteek,
/ The rest of Won so thin that YOU are
not worth booking throueh The dust on
you might he har1 to penetrate butt
The old Jokes drowned his voice at this
/ point with their huttering. They were
| terribly angry. and they were nrenarng
to hurl themseves upon the Roenteen
| aristocrat when the door operPd and the
funny editor came in They flew back to
their pigeon holes and Law quiet. The
editor picked IN the Roenteen Photographic
! Process Joke. glanced at it. frowned and
| tossed it into pigeon hole with the others.
! "Whoop" thev all cried in chorus, 81
told Won sol 7 told you sou
And then The funny editor sat down and
wrote a brand new Joke on the Lost Collar
Button. turned out the light and went
home.
The Roentgen Photoeraphic Process
Jokes career was ended.-New York World