The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-05-17
sTRANeE IDEAS OF EuN.

Tho following from the Record
should be- read by all practical jokors:
10 appears that 90 some persons 10
make fun uprIariuusly playful It is
necessary that some other human be-.
iur must suffer As matter of fact.
too may people take keen enjoyment
In knowing that they are causing
some other person TO suffer at least
mildly Not many days ago very
original young man conceived the idea
Of playing very funny joke IN a man
uf his acquaintance Therefore he
CallCl the man TO the telephone ard
rraycly informed him that his son.
who was employed IN one Of the shops
OF the place. had been hurt II so
happened that the mother Of the boy
had been undergoing severe spell of
sickness and was In highly nervous
condition. The father. too. had grown
weary with watching or he would have
thought before he called to her that
their boy had been injured The faith.
or put Off tO the shop with fear and
misgiyings concerning the now truu.
bile that had been visited upon the
family by the boys injury but when
he arrived there he found the young
man strong and we'll He had had no
accident. nor had he been in danger
The father went home happy in the
contemplation Of the good effect the
assurance that their boy was nut
harmed would have ON the mother
but as he nearcd her bed he saw that
she was dead The excitement over
the smart Alex report had been too
much FOR her weakened nerves and
the shock had Killed. That was a
very funny joke
The other day in Chicago court
two women were heavily fined for no
other offcnse than that Of having a
lot Of fun tickling a young girl until
she went into Mysteries. The cvi-
dcncc showed that these two women
were Needless Of the pleadiI - 10.
mercy of their victim. "a iact. her
plcadings only proved to them that
they were having good time and
that the fun they were creating had
seldom been SO perfectly spontaneous
and satisfying The girl. WHEEL at last
the fun-loying instinct Of her tormcn-
tors had been satisfied to the fun
went to her home and to bed and her
sufferingG were intense. Then an un-
feeling policeman who had absolutely
no sense of humor came and got the
two women, and the Judge did the
rosr II is vcry likely that these two
women will ever be- able to under
stand why officers and courts are 50
obtusc ms To hc unable to grasp the
real hilarity Of the occasion that they
richly enjoyed. Hut the average read
er will take more pleasure out of the
report that they were punished than
he will out Of any conception of the
kind Of prank that the women called
fun
There are too many people who
have an element of cruelty added to
their absolute incapacity to consider
consequences. and when any of these
people get a funny streak on them It
is time To look out We boast Of our
Advancement. and we have reason to
boast Of IT, but in the consideration
of the plans OF bcttermcnt for the
human race It Is worse than folly to
take into consideration the person
who is willing 10 have fun when that
fun ncccssitatcs the mfliction Of pain
on any living thing The creatures
who belong to this class are outside
the pale of the dictate of good sense,
and they have never been endowed
with the capacity to exercise capable
judgment.