The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-23
WOMAN A JUDGE OF JOKES.

WOMAN A JUDGE OF jokes.
In the current number of the Club |
woman Orelia williams Haskell de
rides the masculine pretention to keen |
er appreciation of wit She holds that:
1t takes a better joke to make a |
woman smile than 1t takes to make |
q man laugh for five minutes. man
will laugh at a stale joke every time,
but a stale joke makes q woman feei
like weeping.
'one of the differences between man
and woman" declares the writer, ana
one frequently alluded to by the
former, is that he has a strong sense
of humor and she has none at all. THIS
truth by woman Is accounted Tor by
the fact that her long association Win
man through the centuries has enec-
lively knocked out whatever festiVe
spirit she once possessed, and man at
tributes his easily aroused risibiiities
10 a habit acquired while observing tne
Sagaries of the feminine mind
'sWhatever the true explanation may
he IL is conceded by all that man
would rather laugh than weep, ana tna'
woman is at least undecided as 10
whether she prefers to smile at stare
Joke or to attend tragic play with
four pocket handkerchiefs ready 10 airy
her tears"
The writer objects strongly to mans
habit of making fun of his wife's snort
con,inos as housekeeper to call forth
a laugh.
She urges that mans play upon wo-
mans credulity is one OF his chier
1oys. and, speaking of this, MRS. Has-
kell declares:
.'Thus IT is seen on what a high
plane man INDUCES his sense or humor.
II woman would be his true COM
w
heartily enjoy what amuses and at
tracts him and appreciate the comic
gems of which, he is the author. For
woman must remember that we are put
here to be disciplined, and, though the
funny side of life is often the saddest,
she must be content to suffer, to pay
for the exquisite privilege of living in
the same world with him."
Speaking of the various kinds OF
humor enjoyed by men and women, the
writer says:
"At the present time man evinces
great fondness for what may be called
physical humor. While the petticoat-
ed portion of an audience will receive
a vaudeville set-to with stolid indif-
ference, what interest it awakes in the
kind of people who have a prociivity
for rushing out between the acts.
when the heavy comedian comes
out and greets diminutive companion
with such q resounding whack on the
back that the latter falls PROSTATE on
the stage the bass roar of the male
voice peals from orchestra circle to
highest balcony, while soprano gfggle
Is strangely silent. Again when an I'M
dividual whom burnt cork and paint
have rendered almost unhuman por-
trays the inebriate with his zigzag pro-
menade and his hiccoughed utterances,
with what responsive glee he is hall
ed by his own sex.
Woman lacks the keen intellect to
see the delicate wit in pugilistic thumps
rained on crouching shoulders or in
spasmodic kicks that result in hasty
and undignified departures from the
scenes of action. She is also without
the power to appreciate the side split
ting humor of a drunkard's tumbles or
q rough and tumble fight. 1t Is
man alone who can understand just
where the comic element comes in and
who can enjoy the fine shades of dis
tinction between a punch and pound
q misstep and a fall, a disagreement
and rumpus.
But besides physical fun man in
dulges his love for the spoken. the
written and the acted joke. So great
indeed, is his fondness for the two
former that he even bears with equani'
nifty the constant repetition of the
same witticisms from one years end tc
another"
If presidents count for anything the
chappies will go bareheaded this sum
mer.
STYLES for young men usually find
their origin with the students of Har'
ward and Yale. And hatless boys are
wandering over the campusses of these
institutions since the warm days o.
May arrived.
Quietly and mysteriously the wore
has been passed around among TIT
Yale. lads that hats, caps, and heat
coverings of all sorts are out of order
and any fellow caught donning sucl
As liable to summary punishment. II
fact. it is to become a Yale tradition
dating from the spring of 1904, tina
after the Easter vacation no hats will
be permissible on the Yale campus Il
undergraduates. Droves of men ar
to be seen on the main streets of tn
town after recitations are over eacl
afternoon. parading in most cases with
out coats, and always without hats.
Recently a Yale man came near los
ing his best girl as a result of hi
stubborn observance of this new fac
The New York Sun says. He Gale
in evening clothes to take her to tn
theater while she was on a visit t
friends in town.
When they started to leave tn
house she suddenly realized that he
escort was without his proper hea
covering. and she quickly called al