The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
COOLIDGE'S JOKE REACTED.
Finds Sam Blythe an Expensive MAJ "a
Get Funny with.

Get Funny with.
Louis A. Coolidge dropped q joke on a
Gridironer down in Washington the other
day and it spattered all over the country
at a cost to the perpetrator OF five cents a
spatter.
Sam BY the, Washington correspondent,
s~atirist, humOrist and Gridircn Club man,
was presiding at q dinner at which Coolidge
was one Of the speakers. At the close OF
a learned ard exhaustive discourse on the
tariff, Mr.. Coolidge, who used to play third
base at Harvard, began to have fun with
the POSTMASTER.
I'VE all know said Mr.. Coolidge, that
the diplomats and statesmen at Washington
never really get Off the jokes that they
are quoted as uttering by our friend Blythe.
because we know that Blythe reads his
jokes in the almanacs and then puts them
in the mouths Of the helpless statesmen.
He uses modern almanaos, too, with the
contents Of which everybody is familiar,
and 10 everybody is onto the game. SO.
for the benefit of the statesmen and OF
Mr.. Blythe himself, l have collected a set
OF rare old almanaos, the most recent OF
which bears the date 1850, which wish to
present to him tonight
Whereupon Mr.. Coolidge with much
formality, not lacking in grace, handed
to Mr.. Blythe a yellow and musty volume.
Chapter H., as Mr.. Blythe would call it;
The morning after the dinner Sam Blythe
began to look up the record OF Louis Cool
idge to discover, If possible, something evil
in his past or present. His effort was
crowned with success. He learned that
Coolidge was a patron of a clipping bureau
to which he paid five cents for every news
paper clipping containing his name.
chapter H%I.-Samuel Blythe, with refined
cruelty. vent through the almanacs which
Coolidge had given him at the dinner. He
classified the jokes by decades, beginning
with the 1s1O-ls2o period and put the mate
rial neatly arranged in the Coolidge pigeon
hole OF his sta tesmen's anecdote cabinet.
Interval Of four days waited by MI.
Blythe on rebate matter.
thapter W.-Mr. Blythe overtaxes the
mails with some good stories told by Louis
A. Coolidge Of Washington.
Chapter Y.-Mr. Coolidge gets twenty
clippings in one day from his bureau with
bill for 81. The clippings al! nave the
Washington date line, but are from papers
all the way from Maine to Texas. Here are
some samples
tellers in Washington, got of a new one
to-day that put everybody in the House
iobbv into a roar. When is a door not a
door?' asked Coolidge, with a merry twinkle
In his eye. Seventeen Congressman gave 1t
up. When it's a jsrn he added keeping a
Louis A. Coolidge, one Of the best known
ways at the Capital, was the life OF q dis
tinguished group Of diplomats and Senators
in the cafe Of the Arlington one day Last
week, Why does a hen cross the roadr =
wicked, roguish look in his eye; Several OF
his hearers essayed 10 answer. but nobody
got it right. To get on the other side said
MIR. Coolidge with a gravity hat was Kill
ing coo,;a,. rooonto,r without
whom Washington would be dull indeed,
snlitt the sides OF a score Of Western Senator'S
the other night with a new horse story.
There was a man out in Indiana said MIR:
Coolidge, who had a theory that he could
save expense by feeding his horse on shay.
ings. And it was a good theory, too, but
as soon as the horse got used to eating the
shavinge he up and died."
sLouis A. Coolidge, whose fund Of new
and witty tales is apparently inexhaustible.
kentucky delegation and compelled to tell
them a story. After a little modest hesi-
fancy Mr.. Coolidge sprang this new one:
"A single man said to a married friend that
he had been told that a married man lived
longer than a single one, whereupon his
companion said that 1t only seemed longer >"
whenever a visitor to the capital sees a
eroup Of statesmen holding their sides he
may be pretty sure. that Louis A. Coolidge
is In their midst telling one OF his inimitable
the Corean Minister by the brand new one
Illustrating the hotel and cafe life Of Wash
ington: * crusty old gentleman, having
dined on Pennsylvania avenue, was about to
leave without tipping the waiter, who asked
him, politely, IL he hadn't forgotten some
.lt.. The old uantlaman mazda atirA that