Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

thing. The one reservation here far subject,
the theater audience concerned that the audience
must know that the pain and suffering are not deep.
We figured things out this way, and success lnd1-
that right. Here is the table of most
successful capitaizatons of items Of human nature:
Cd Human nature loves best of all to two friends
fight.
(2) Human nature loves to the under dog in such
encounter any other encounter get the worst
of it.
(3) Human nature loves to onesided fight, with
the weaker consistently losing.
The first thing you will do will be to deny the truth of
these facts. You have heard all your life that you want
to the under dog get the best of things; you have
heard that fighting is anything but funny-and you
probably believe what you have heard But just stop
a minute and think it all honestly. We did. Is
there anything unnier than the spectacle OF two
fast friends suddenly getting into trivial argument
baseball batting average, let say-and fighting over
it? Think it over! Friends roommates, comrades for
dozen years, suddenly coming to blows something
insignificant that it ought make them laugh they
stopped to think about it, You stop to think about it:
they don't. You see it is funny: they don't. And
human nature instead of causing YOU regard their
iscuffs as serious makes you regard them as merely
humorous. That is what makes South American revo-
buttons buresque, what makes lovers quarrels
the subject of worldwide jest
And so, when get into tight on the stage over
nothing at all, you yell with laughter because human
nature tells you to, and you remember that YOU
laughed after you leave the theater. Human nature
makes you remember The instinct to laugh at such
sight is always in you And you spread among your
neghbors the tidings of our funnyness
But we had to Inquire out the problem more closely
than this. The result may be found in items two and
three And So for the last sixteen years. of has
been the under dog consistently and continually If
turned about Joe to get the better of Lew in
stage fights, our sun would set: In the same way,
human nature loves to Italian street peddler get
the worst of it always at the hands of the urchns who
steal apples off his cart. Wrong Certainly! But we
not discussing the right and wrong of the matter.
We discussing human nature and the way to capital
ize it proftably. Human makes laugh at the
beaten przeghter and the oftener he is beaten the
I,ly,f
nature gggles at the frequent defeats of Bryan
does at the who slips the icy pavement gets up
and then slips down again. If he slips third tme-ah,
that is funnier than words! All that human nature
holds charity and in reservation is that the
shall not be hurt much So human isn't SO bad,
after all!
If the under dog has of humor, then human
nature will shower him with laughs, matter how
much he is licked, beaten whipped, poked. Take
boys in street fight, big boy and little boy.
Ofhand you will say human nature will want to the
little boy win Not at ALL 1t will want to the boy
with the grin his face win. If the big boy
dian, the crowd will cheer him against his little and
serious adversary. You see, dear, contradictng
reader, human nature is problem 1t is not all the
surface, led to believe 1t is cranky affair.