The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05

aloof from the general festival of non sense. Surely most of us would agree hath not dram of folly in his mix ture, hath pounds of much worse mat ter. in his composition.
 And yet there are Limitations to fol- ly There Is point your majesty. . said the famous Court Fool. chtcot to Henry III of France, beyond which q sensible fool will not go."N Chicot, we learn from him that even in folly our moderation should be known. As there is but step from the, sublime to the ridiculous, so the line of demarcA-, not be always so distinct as some ac- complished testers imagine. As "a rule, practical jokes are in bad taste. and 1t. is keen wit, indeed. which new CT makes a mistake. The lady in Par is who stole watch from a friend's house as an April joke ana continued the joke by sending the police all over friend was not the only April Fool. when she, herself, was committed to prison until the first day of the next April! F s curean than Gargantuan--fastidle rather than voracious A joke can lose It's finest favor by being too robust. One learns with amazement that d man like Sheridan. could have perpetrated joke which had little claim to wit filling a dark passageway In the house of a friend with crockery and glass, performance which resulted in the se-- rious injury of a guest who. entered the house without suspicion. This at tempt at a joke was far more nal sspropos, than anything which Madam liar robustness was perpetrated in New York City not many years ago, when several men agreed to send to the ad dress of a certain author. on the first day of April, household. and kitchen furniture. which arrived at his door avery hour of the day. The annoyance to the lady of the house was so great have realized that the game was hard ly worth the candle, and quite tusti- fies the sentiment expressed in Robins Almanac, two centuries ago: sasc . And on this day are penpie sent r. On purpose of pure merrimenk
 But 'tis thing to be. dispurcu. Which is the greatest fool rep pdted-@ The man that fnnocently went, fiss he that him desiSnsdly sent.3e- s-.1
 "A pungent lie," said Dean Swift. Dis, permissible on the firss of ApFib., and, IL was on that day that Bolingbrokes told tie .te In which the wreck of his lite begaE--a mere coincidence, ooubt-' Maria Louisa, on the first day of April. but when disasters fell thick and fast upon their Emperor the Parisians were not slow to name him Poisson d,Ayril!
 
 eager to entrsp others in the tolls of a practical joke. "Biters. and The Spectator speaks of a. man who per sistently boasted that in ten years he had made one hundred April foolsl' Forsooth a great achievement! and sometimes sense of justice, poeticaI or otherwise. Is enjoyed when these BiteTs gre bitten. It happened in one of the Southern States during the wal that q worthy lady who, with eyerS1 recurring first of April, insisted upoL contributing her share to the geheras g April feeling. sent to the clergyman of her parish pigeon-pie ostensibly but really a mass of cotton covered with pastry. The clergyman accepted the gift in all innocence, but on dis. covering the trick sent messenger te Mrs. A. with the remonstrance thap 1t was a poor time for eApril-foolina when his neigh bor and her friend, Mrs B. was at that moment dying! The shocking news overwhelmed Mrs.tA- who. in tears, hastened to the house oi Mrs. B. to find that lady occupied u dyeing yarn to be knit into stockings for soldiers. Tradition says that Mrs. A never attempted another April fooli
 Yet. in spite of her fooling and her whims. all the world loves April. ana it Is better with genial Ella. to give her welcome, than to endorse the cyn- cism of Lamar Blanchard. who repu- diating her claims. declared that the real Festival of Fools begins on Jat- uary nrst. and ends on December thir- ty-first. at midnight! V