The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-16
By the Way

They were talking about happy days, good times, and lot of other things that women enjoy discussing, when some one said to girl in the crowd:
 What was the happiest moment of your life?"
 She promptly replied 'HThe day I saw my best lingerie frock hanging up in the cleaners window, immaculate and beautiful as newr' which touched the hearts of most of those present, for every woman adores her ''best lingerie frock."
 In the aggregation was a new recruit to "newspaperdom," and when the ques- ton of the "near-happy" moment was propounded to her this girl said:
 My happiest moment? Ohl that's easy It was the morning l awoke and found all my perfectly good work, appear just as 1t was written! My nice little verbs in their right lenses, my collection of adverbs absolutely correct, and as nouns are always proven by the adjectives they associate with, the asortment was recog- nized as being entirely proper, and-so I was happy!'
 This girls early education in the line of chiography was evidently neglected for it must be said in those who decipher her idle gibberish that she writes the worst hand that can be imagined. Not receiving an answer to a letter which had been sent to a friend many moons before, the girl in question asked man who had recently seen the recipient of the aforesaid letter why this girl hadn't answered it.
 "Didt she receive my letter." said she.
 ''Ohl" said the man, was it letter? She received something, but she thought it was music!
 Arn't typographical errors funny, any way? It was at MT. Lew Fields theatre in New York, once upon a time, and he and MT. Weber were having one of their "Dutch conversationings' They were or dering a dinner and when the soup was served it was discovered that something was wrong One of the comedians said
 waiter, dis soup is mistaken vat is dis dat find here? I tink it is needle"
 "Ohl' said the waiter with great non- chalance.
 That is only a typographical error; it was intended for noodle"
 A young reporter was once sent to write up very fashionable function. His sweetheart was in attendance, and trying to do the nice thing, he reserved the de- scripton of her gown until the last. Alter a very fattering notice of the "ex- uuste Paris gown of white chiffon gor- geously trimmed in real lace,' he wound up by saving that ''her dainty feet were encased in shoes that looked like fairy boots.
 Imagine his dismay upon reading In the paper the next morning that "her dirty feet were incased in shoes that looked like ferry boats.''
 One of the most amusing stories told in this connection is about an Arkansas paper which, while being made up in quite a hurry, got considerably mixed llp in the forms" and the following ap- peared:
 "John Brown and Ida Gray were united in the holy sauerkraut by the quart or barrel. MT. B. is a well-known young codfsh at 10 cents per pound, while the bride. Miss G., has some nice pigs feet which will be sold cheaper than any in town
 A laughable incident is told of a corre- snondent who attacked an editor about some errors in an article, and this is what happened:
 The Editor: "Eh, what's wrong?'
 The Correspondent: Tn that letter of mine that you printed this morning sev- eral errors were permitted to appear. Look at this. wrote, Nobody mas any desire to impeach the rugged quality or MT. Skimmerhorn's honesty and you turned honesty into hosiery LOOK at itv'
 The Editor: 1T see it. And what's more. I see nothing wrong about it. Anything else?" |,
 "Yes here's another. This is what l wrote: MT Skimmerhorn's ripe experl- ence and his respect for honor must no! he forgotten And you speak here oi his striped experienced and his respect for Homer
 "Yes, that's so. And they're both high ly commendable virtues. Good morning.