Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-16
THEIR FAvoRITE JOKES
Some Things Which the Members Of
the American Press HumorIsts' As-
ISOLATION Think Are Funny

| ISOLATION Think Are Funny
| The convention Of the Americas Press
| HumortstS Association tciH be held IN this
city nert ,oeek. Some Of the members, at
| tod him ohdt they think Is the funniest
thing a.n ,is Msy sver heard. Some Of the things
| their oton humor--und some are not Fol
| iootn0 ts the first fnstdllment Of the things
'ohtch they think are good.
T A. WALDRON, an ex president of the
o' American Press Humorists. says that
during the years Of his editorship of Judge
he has so often encountered his favorite joke
IN the manuscripts submitted to the maga
zine - and possibly it has been so often
printed by his Honor-that it would be un-
kind to spring it upon the clientele Of the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER, (which has so
much original humor that no relics should be
permitted in its columns
| nON HEROLD, of indianapolis, says he
~ hasn't any favorite joke, SO compro-
misses on couple of aphorisms
Work is the greatest thing t.. the world,
so we should always save some Of it until
| tomorrow.
Hereafter we will believe less history than
ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
| n o. MCINTYRE writes: my favorite
W joke: The wheeze about the feller
coming home soused and upsetting the bowl
of goldfish When his wife yelled down the
! stairs, John, what's the matter? ?" he re-
| piled, III teach those damn goldfish to
| snap at me!'
MRS. ELIZABETH SEARS writes: "The
A'A funniest thing I heard happened last
| year at Camp Dix, when the Y. NJ. G. A.
personally conducted passel of writer's and
editors around the place-fguring on lot
of publicity out of it. A bunch of us were
In dusty lorry, being shown the remount
station, and we met a major who had once
written poem himself and was tremendously
interested at meeting 30 many brilliant
writer's at once, as it were. merry wit
from the New York Tribune was introducing
us to the major, he being IN command of the
remount station and having shown us vari-
GUS courtesies. He was anxious to be nice
to us and to show that he really read the
magazines and knew our various names.
when he was introduced to Ellis Parker
Butler, who leaned on a cane with q judicial
air. the major wrinkled his brow and re-
peated: -.
'Butler-Butler-let's see-Butler.'
The Pigs Is Pigs man, you know
deicately reminded the merry wit from the
Tribune.
""Of course knew returned the major,
Indignantly; L was merely trying to place
his last story
oh. no. promptly remarked Ethel
Watts Mumford, from dusty section of the
lorry, he's still trying to do that himself
'And Mr.. Butler sadly but truthfully ac-
knowledged that it was indeed so.''
DOY X. MOULTON, of the New York
~ Evening Mail, writes:
/ don't know darn thing to tell you about
myself If you would let me talk about my
two kids I could talk all day, but the old
man has sort of settled down into state of
speechess acquiescence to the prevailing
order of things
My favorite joke is Colonel House.
am eighty one years old (today). I like
| parspips and am in favor of the league Of
| nations. I am always in favor of things
that nobody understands. 1t makes life in
teresting.
I will come to the convention all dressed
up like horse.
TIN HUBBARD, alias Abe Martin, of the
IN indianapolis News, National Newspaper
Service and the Universal Films Manufac-
turing Company's Screen Magazine, says:
If a feller screwed up his face when he
asks for credit like he does when he's asked
to settle he wouldn't git it.
Some girls don't seem to care so their ears
| are covered.
Th' question you hear most these days is;
where kin that girls mother be?'
What's become O tn ole time girl whose
complexion changed with her yaryin' moods?
| TNREVE COLLINS, JR., of the American
L Newspaper Service and a candidate for
membership in the A. p. H., writes:
There is one consolation about crowded
street cars You may be too tired to stand
up, but you couldn't fall down if you
! wanted to.
Time and tide Wait for no MAN. So
woman, lovely woman, continues to be as
late as she pleases.
Some women can see good points in every
man except the one they've married.
The only reason some men long for sudden
wealth is that it would enable them to lie
in bed as long as they'd like to in the morn
| ing.
| A woman is quite willing to forgive a man
| all his faults-unless she's married to him.
MRS. DARRAGH ALDRICH writes:
4'l My favorite joke is new this year. That
is pretty good for a favorite joke. This is
| it Ga joke is always in two parts):
| PART ONE-The JOke