| Show A ALL LL FOOLS DAY We feel rather guilty at the thought that what is to follow may In some measure destroy the pleasure the small boy is Js planning for today toda but duty drives us u to warn the tho public that this Is la April 1 It is the day when I children and waggish grownups will vIii I indulge in pranks pranks that are hoary with the frost of the years that are gone but that still find victims by the score In spite of this warning learning you who read these lines will win wint t I f l I hardly get through the day without being made the victims of a more or orless orless orless less brilliant April fool joke But if jf you ou see a fat purse lying on the sidewalk as you Journey and an pick it up tP to find its contents com con composed composed posed of newspaper clippings kindly refrain from blaming us We hardly believe you rou will be able to resist the temptation to pick up that purse Even Een if you remember the anniversary you yo you will think that perhaps It t contains real money of ot the he kind Come to think th about it n we advise you strongly to attach that purse to your our person It is better to be laughed at atas atas atas as one of the tho April fooled than to overlook a chance to acquire some of the treasures of this earth The laugh at you last as long as the fun of spending money We really should say something about the coin on the sidewalk The chances are that it Is glued there glued so tightly that nothing short of or dynamite will Jar it Still you will be taking a chance It if you ou pass that coin with only a longing look It might not be glued after all If it glued slued you lose provided you pass it though of ot course if it it is 15 glued you lose So there you are arc You Tou will have to use your our own judgment in spite of all the advice we can give you ou Then there Is the affair of ot the bat battered battered battered hat It is a lot of fun to kick kicka a hat As the sk goes sailing up Into the lr we chortle blithely for it certainly makes a sight But the awful pos possibility possibility possibility of ot a brick under tIt hat must be considered It is no fun to kick a brick That is the fellow fetlow who does the kicking cant see much fun in it jt And yet and yet Best Beloved there may not be a brick under the hat and the next man that comes along has the fun of kicking it The doorbell matter seems worth considering If you ou dont answer the doorbell you rou may offend a dear friend who has called If you do answer it Itou you ou may find nobody there This again Is a point that individual Judg Judgment judgment judgment ment must determine And so on down through the list The one sure thing about All Fools day and every other day In the year ear since you ou brought the subject up Is la that The Herald Is the best all around newspaper newspaper per In this section of or the country and it is getting better all the time thank you |
