Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1907-02-23
SERIOUS, YET FUNNY
UNCONSCIOUS HUMoR THAT HELPS
 TO PUT SPICE IN LIFE.

fatn1ng Ihat Appeal strongly tO the Sense of the Ridiculous.
 Nothing has added more to the merri- hent of the world than the uninten lonal, unconscious humor of writers ublic speakers and, in fact, all classes nd conditions of men and women. nd there is none so delightful It far xceeds in mirth provoking quality the Old blooded humor of the professional its.
 We Americans are a fun loving peO- le and we must and will have our Jllity. Some one has said with cer- tin truth: with all our vanity, ener- and unrest, we are not a dull. cheer ss people. Sour faced fellows, yellow ld dyspeptic, are to be met with in IT cars and on our streets, but they e not the type of the Amerlcan, for is as ready for a laugh as for a Ieculation, as fond of joke as an tice'
 I And the joke is all the more enjoy ,le when it is spontaneous. The great the stress and strain of life the eater the need and demand for hu- or, and no one deprecates the value humor excepting those who have ne of this good gift to their portion. Sunset" Cox one of the wittiest men his day, says in his book, "Why We hugh" "Eliminate from the litera- ire and conduct of any one people the .lusing and the amused faculty, and Il produce a sterility as dull and un- .eresting as the cinders and ashes of , volcanic fields of Iceland. But in tde the amusing element within 2 experience and history of mankind, d no description of luXuriance, with ape, olive, nectarine and orange, such makes the vales of Portugal peren- l smile, is adequate to emphasize the ltrast."
 )ne could not well instance a more using blunder than that in a paint of the Blessed Virgin" in an old lrch in Spain. In this painting the gin is represented as sitting on a velvet sofa fondling cat with one nd, while with the other she is pour coffee from a silver coffeepot. ! his is as amusing as a painting in man church representing the sacri- of Isaac by Abraham. In this nting Abraham is about to dis rge huge pistol at Isaac when an el descends and pours pitcher O. ter on the pan of the pistol, thereby ing Isaac.
 be writer once saw crude painting King Herod with a pair of specta- painted on his nose. There is old painting of St. Peter denying Saviour, and several of the Roman iers in the background have pipes heir mouths.
 hose who are on the lookout for n will find many amusing blunders he daily papers and in periodicals II kinds. It was but the other day
 the writer saw Miss Fanny Cros referred to in a religious paper as author of so many blind poems.
 it was a great metropolitan daily
 one morning gave it's readers the Dwing information regarding the cking of a ship the night before: captain swan ashore and sue cd in saving the life of his wife. was insured in the Northern Ma
 Insurance company and carried a 0 of cement"
 ually amusing as an instance of luscious humor was the statement e by another paper regarding the izing of a boat at sea. 1t said that
 one life was lost, and that was u afterward."
 must be sadly deficient in humOr does not find himself amused by a like the following seen in the win 0f shoemaker: Any respectable
 woman or child can have fit in shop" It was an enterprising fur who placed a card in his window lg that for the benefit of the la he would make 'muffs, boas, etc, # their own skins"
 prolific source of amusement to lscript readers is the surprising
 in which aspirants for literary and glory often put things"
 ind one young woman saying of
 eroine: "The countess fell back in
 dly sWoon. When she revived her
 had fled"
 other young writer places her her
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