Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-09-09
JOKES OF WOMEN.
The Man Thinks Woman Can't be HUI
morous is Mistaken.

We denote that subscriber last
week raised the question whether
woman can make a joke.
Most every male in the world thinks
she can't. The male being is willing
to admit that woman is prettier ara
more moral than he is. but he thinks
that there are two things that only he
can make-jokes and money.
Man generally makes both at other
peoples expense.
Mans idea of joke is like his idea
of gun. He wants to hurt some
thing with it every time he shoots it
off
He thinks that woman can't make
jokes because he don't ever see one
woman steal up behind another woman
and break her backbone with a friend
ly punch or smash her hat over her
eyes to show her wit and sense of
humOr. t.i W.
Woman's jokes are more subtle. A
man don't begin to see her points until
he has thought over them for some
time and thinking is not as easy for
man as another thing that sounds al
most the same only it has letter d
and a letter in it. Often mans
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his expense for years and he done
suspicion it until he hires a private
detective. And even then the chances
are that she will prove something on
him and collect alimony after ALL
The first joke was made by the first
woman. 1t was right after Adam had
hastily accepted the invitation to move
out of Paradise and go to work for e
living. He was standing on the outside
of the barbed wire fence and trying
hard. but not with real success, to kick
holes into a fine specimen of silurian
limestone with his bare feet. Just when
the full horror of the labor question
was beginning to permeate his system,
and he was feeling the first and orig
NAL attack of pessimism in his bones,
Eve snuggled up to him and said low
ingly Never mind, Adam. tootsie, you
still have me-"
1t produced mad hysterical laughter
out OF Adam. Since then every one of
Ewes daughters has worked this joke
off in some way or another on her hus-
band. But it's only by brooding over
it that it is possible to get the revela-
ton that it really is joke
Women's best jokes are unconscious
like that one. When a woman makes
joke on purpose she mostly puts too
much temperament in it, we observe
This is a prominent trouble with our
wife.
When we steal home before dawn
and take the precaution to unlace our
shoes before we get off the trolley car
and get on our knees to be sure to get
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the whole front of the house. it amt
easy to appreciate wifely joke that
consists in leaving a rocking chair ct
the top of the staircase just where our
most poignant shinbone will hit its
sharp feet.
Also it's a good deal easier for us to
perceive her joke than to relish it
when she wakes us up ahead of time
that morning and ushers us to break
fast table that groans with rich,
greasy food. T.
Woman mostly forgets the point
when she makes verbal joke, but she
don't ever fail to put in three or more
striking ones when she makes practi-
cal Joke. Nobody can say that Lily
Langtry failed to make her point clear
when she dropped the ice down tie
royal backbone. Putty's puttyblower
didn't miss any points in her various
jokes either.
Woman's love for practical joking
has made its impression on history 1t
was practical joke of this kind that
Cleopatra worked off on old Anthony
when she took her ships out of battle
with a giggle. And when he chased
after her like COW after a salt dish,
she cooed at him and asked him what
was the difference between him and