The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-15
SUMNER RECIPES FOR HUMOR
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Pur r. uu Hu-i'-.i.I.' uu "NagR~ra'ion.
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Idly % -urrs'au 'l'' avoid funerals
lrtovlrauur slang Nv",d m"chanical
,I.sfg,-, .-ia.u a certain CLASSIC 9nhNry
IL .,r..lac" Nh'u vuuIpl-i"d story
tU.r .u tN,..a Lines NI.i - promptly
rejected O. uu. built IN th''~' lines "
MI h.. rejected
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cant Ihl- Nv rrrir-'. ~ a. any rate
nv .,i.s ct vruur a humorous sio-v
.Nrfts a story 40 urtRual that | know
~ .dl'or would nuy n
or rpur., have not the hraNad"
a. de- tins. In' & | had every editor would
v..u, lha- story Tn, editor knoNs what
h.. wants ~ i " hat he dos,s MOI think h"
wants
A. iiu. p.inr The Aow 90 hts thought -
iut.rr!rtsd nv a NOISE On IN" PIAZZA
without. u = a vrrIrahl" plaZya. Tor IN"
IYr.prt-t hI. 50 Far fallen under IN"
sr..Il ~ th. editor recIT-' that re ma
SON. nu. 10 hv. at Flushing. wh"r"
stptlrran ipyS ADVENTURES and mIsad'"n
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thsu-rl,.-, Tn. nur." proves Z" u" 4
duaI un,s, and IN" humorIst g"i- up anu
looks rut ~ the window
Twins - twins he savs and the ma gic
combination which was 10 open IN" ~aF
20 .lrc,>S for Unknown humoris'S -
forgotten
4. for 'Na Twin. themselves. they haN"
,bu. S.,. mana -rd - raSs siN months IN
m. lor-..huld without appearing IN
,AJ.. lui o. i easy to ser that their parent
Ia. already hagtIn to look a. them with
a r.r,faS.rpnal eve from which nothing
suhurtau j. sacred
W., must ur-' GET an idea- he save.
coming h.ck ~ the case IN point, Tor
,h.re has L. 10 an de. - the bottom 81 -
humorous story even which can TIE the
nAest kind ~ slush end still 60
For rrstPnoe.- you suggest. desiring
the concrete
We'll for instance. he mecitats-, look
ing out Of the rear window through which.
from somewhere h"atz IN the sound ~
ironing board. FOR instance just to he
imaginP tive. you know suppose hdy
from Kansas wearing haystack looking
hat should drop IN her" and FSk Tor
CLASSIC s'yle interview for Tar SCN. I'm
probable. ~ course. hut II contains all the
ingredients don't know. | NAV use
thai. 80 perhaps you'd better not CAV" ~
away
1T WAS somebody IN a ma game Office.
the Office boy. I think. who sPranR the
main idea for Pigs l. Pigs had written
"A story about pair Il Top cared guinea
piRs and Chicago .dvertlsinR agent who,
counting on the rapiditv Of multiplication
81 the animals resolved 10 make fortune
hy advertising widely Top cared guinea
pigs for sale thinking the supply would
keep u. 90 with the d"mg nd Orders and
checks poured ~ from all over the country.
hut nfortJIns tely the Top cared heas's died
and the advertising gent became hanA-
rtipi ma ling hack checks
Her the idea 81 the story was the
merits Il advertising. "a man up IN the
northern wIlds finding nothing 20 read hut
the two year old newspaper lining his
trunk s"nt m a check two years after the
p,gs had died
The pfFice hov conceived the idea NJ
the pigs travelling hv express beng m
claimed and bringing CONSEQUENT emhar-
ra.sm"nt upon the cypress 0fiic".
Get the ld"g nd IN" story evolves.
Got the rd".. II she CLIMAX. n possible, and
work backward for IN" ends the thing
Th.f W., What m. de q Henry the master
he ,y.s q inoStcrly clims c'Ic touch
Sometimes when ! 20 10 my type
Writer N tho morning not feeling par
'rculariy N," worN YOU y" simply got
80 20 regardless ~ how YOU feel. YOU
know. for YOU never he having literary
iusprratI0n~ with golf sticks lying about
CRYING tor oNarcise I ~ and write on
mage after mage % trash. nothing 20 IT,
no sens 10 -. b'i when I'm about
readv % ret s.ck 81 n perhaps an idea
vii come along and then III nave ~ to
work IN l1'"r. after u has lam quiet q
while growing
Whom wiring ~ tho night humor u
CONES automatically and carries YOU
along and then when YOU zee u in PRINT
q wear Or 80 lator Won hardly recognize
~ for vlIr own ant can't realize how
Won "v"r hlpu@ned e. write u
-Thcn tho lpmorls' ~ not q natural
hufnorisi alwavEs" Won ask
No looSs dpleiully oU' 10 the front
pialln
IA m" morning" h. replies \ hop@
thcv n d"velop - sense of hurnor It's
hereditary Nv fAthe- was a born Joker
Tho ilug ~, ~ - b" born IA a
huworIst bat oven then no daras not
trust f Ho can split his sides laugh N
0ycr sorr"'HrnE no has written only 10
ha," ~ 'po-cd ~ coldlv bv tho editor
m" -.ns" - humor - tho trickIest thing
IN ~" world 20 denl With becau@a /, b.
suhicrfi," and variable AZ that The
hurur.s' can't trust his own nor hrs
editor nor ~" publc's from mon'h 10
90 mon unless y" has sICCeed-d IN
maxim. himself y habit
y .Tra wrote y story revolving about
dictionary ! offered ~ 10 N" iT1rr1n
and 'h.v thought tho dot Ionarv mart
wa- "a aui -ugRes'"i rewTlte the
story -Ihsi.'Iiing something "l-c That
ru"ar' much work. 50 offered ~ ~
Ns' '..f.s .ney liked u u III cut out
au r'.' |t" dictionary part. a. that was
an iNii 49, good ! rI' out A. that
vas -.wf''-'
There .- 80 T1uEIng rho EDITORS tast"
and yr.r 'uIr-e'f - Won read "a humorous
story vrnu Won ha'" Indigestion never
vnr' 'r 'a.rh
NHf '.f on -.s'. that when Won have
'lass. r..r.-.. -.fs e words ., deal with
fl. l.l'' .. lrnS.lf should h." allowed
n.N swing. t'~ "rur i,'rrrs % Law out
.'..- ..r '"rn NITN Twain. Bill Nye and
A|s.f.rA MHTt vHF.s HIl sfgg..seful bs.