The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Kind Heaven Pity the Married Pair Who Do Not Jokes

my language. and my language is-laugh- ter. He cannot learn 1t even."
 silly that may sound to person who does not know that woman's tempera- | ment, but to those who do and realize that she is tied to a dry-as-dust man, who never saw the point to a joke in all his blameless life-well it's nothing short of 6 tragedy"
 Don't the most curious people get hitched up together?" cynical old bach eIor observed the other day. Look at Blank and his wife. She's butterfly and he's a dray horse. Now, nobody made them marry and why, ohl why did they do 1t? Anybody with modicum of brains would know that they'd make a smash oc things generally
 There's links and his wife" he went on to say. ''He is even now at the age of 50 & carefree boy. I used to know him when he ran about barefooted in the coun- try as full of devilment as an egg Is of meat. He hasn't changed bit, but look a. the woman he marriedi She's a cross between a marble statue in the park and Puritan school teacher-the kind that would keep a boy in after school be- cause she couldn't understand that his pranks were only a superabundance of fui,, and that there wasn't really mean or unkind molecule in his whole body. write on the black board as the teacher tA 1- sorry he is naughty boy. but she puts htm through a third degree which is quite as strenuous. She simply does not understand him and moreover she doesn't try. She is simply a woman who has no red corpuseles in her body, and no hLnior in her heart, and tliats where a. sense of humor is kep,, m the heart. Ever known a person with a sense of humor or fun who didn't have a heart that was an open sesame for the vagabonds OF the world to stalk right into and take possession of? Well-that's links; he is always being punished by that cold-blood- ed wife of his, because his sense of humor isn't her sense of justice. I don't much approave of divorce generally sreaking, but I'd like to be an invisible spirit of some sort and have it in-my power to swoop down and carry away the unhappy one in a union where the lack 0. harmony rises from the party of the first part, or the party of the second pat being minus in this particular way" The Wife Without a Smile" is one of the most excrutiatingly funny and out rageously risque things that our friend, Is in foo hi jcct he has fairly "out-Shawed Shaw" The strongest bond in the world is a. sense of laughter. I shall never forget her. a man once confided to a woman as he told her about the romance of his youth. I can't forget her; I couldn't If tried
 There are as good fish in the sea-" the woman began making the time honored quotation, when he interrupted her and said:
 l Yes, 1 know; but these fish do not happen to be the girl l love-"
 But, love is such a temporal thing" the woman insisted. Now, what was there about the girl you loved that can't be duplicated in another woman? Was
 
 she so very beautiful?"
 No; she was very pretty" he said gently, but her greatest attraction was that we thought the same things amus- ing. You can pick up a beauty any old day, but when man finds a woman who thinks the same things are funny that amuse and delight him, my advice to him is to turn at once into a cave man, throw her over his shoulder and run away with her. She's the divinely appointed mate for him.
 The woman to whom he made this statement scoffed at him and said blithe. | ly:
 "Why, every woman is growing sense of humor these days
 ''The woman I loved didn't have to grow 1t like you would beard. It was 1 just merely part of her; it was herself, if you know what mean" he answered quietly.
 Once upon time. as the fairy books say. sat behind a man and woman at a play, one of the most amusing come- diea ever saw-both the play and the man and woman.
 It was delicious to see him turn his head back and fairly -? and roar with mirth. but ye gods and little fishes! the sight of the woman's face was enough to freeze the marrow in your very bones. Won't you please tell me?'' heard her say--and wasn't eavesdropping, believe me- for their conversation was 50 domi- nant when the curtain went down that you would have had 10 bc "deef and dern'" as the darkeys say. if you hadn't caught it-"what there was in that act to amuse you so tremendously"
 T couldn't tell you to save my life," he said quickly and rather irritably. You would't understand: you didn't. I