Show JOKES BY THE YARD JA Professional Jest STaker Discusses I Hcinor as a Business The coimon or garden joke in the comic i < ap = rfa of Ameiica and England has j oiie 10 i > e us inucii ot a mechanical poa hiv la nay other of xne minor araciea of eegi neW I cosnuerce Indeed a wellknown Probe tiouai jest maiiuiaeturei ihe oesigiut IOn is ns own ace reduced his ally ijuor LOi t tiie perfect system of Ule lac r v iii a brief talk with this1 business humorist humor-ist he outlined his bcnmie ot work as I fOLio S toiioMy notebook is the storehouse for raw i material ihetem are jotted down all j bUKgestioiib Ideas anu events union rnciy j bo tiaborutud Into jOkes 1 rarely hay an I i iiibpii don pure ana simple uj family ll llq f JJl fUj I nail Inendb my chance acquaintances ana toe people and SIKIH JL erOoumer i supiuj Ie unrefined joke Klgiil here i > ani to acknowledge the debt uiat i owe to my hardw l orklng and conscientious i baby aetat ono year This admirable t Ia I 1 child is one 01 the Hugest daily contributors contribu-tors of raw material lor my joite factory B fore his airivil r had t get my infant j I humor at secondhand from otner peo j 1 pies nurseries It really eas a manuuic i turer to be his own producer i Jly jokes roughii jotiea aown areon i each luonoay morning carctully sorted The Thanksgiving output Is thus ready by I July 4 and the I Christmas supply can Do placsd 071n the market by Michaelmas i I I I With regai to the new perforated joke broadsheet my own invention should i i like t say a word I have had made to i order a Huge sheet of writing paper perforated per-forated after the manner of postage stamps into rectangular subdivisions of equal size Each bUi > Uviblon Is just large enough for a joke and has my name and addrsss printed for editorial use In the corner l write In my jokes one joke to a rectangular slip and then folalng up the entire board i sheet mail It to the best paying and most desirable comic paper on my list I The editor looks over the jokes and picks out the ones he wants These he detaches by tearing along the perforated lines and sends back the remainder I Again I mail the broadsheet to comic paper pa-per No 2 and the same process of selection se-lection Is gone through When all the humorous journals have been given a chance my mutilated broadsheet is sent the rounds of the trade papers and these publications having detached the best jokes remaining I forward what is left to England where I find a ready market for the remnant The system is an excellent one obviating obvi-ating the use of scissors Latterly have been covering the backs of my joke broadsheet broad-sheet with mucilage agreeably flavored so that the busy comic editor does not have to bother about his paste pot either 1 have been thinking about Incorporating Incorporat-ing my joke Industry and I really do not see why a great wit and humor paragraph trust should not be one of the events of the future j |