Davis County Clipper | 1907-10-18 | Page 11 | Qualities of Wit and Humor

QUALITIES OF WIT AND HUMOR alike yet in many ways fundamentally different wit and humor are such elemental fundamental things that it has always been found difficult to analyze them says a writer in the atlantic upon some points however those who have essayed this puzzling task fask agree agreci tor for they all hold that wit Is an intellectual humor an emotional quality that wit Is a perception ot of resemblance and humor a perception ot contrasts contrast ot of discrepancy of 0 incongruity the incongruity Is that which arises between the ideal and the fact between theory and practice between promise and performance and perhaps it might be added that it Is always or almost always a moral incongruity la in the case both of wit and humor there Is also a pleasurable surprise a gentle shock which accompanies our perception ot of the hitherto I 1 unsuspected resemblance or incongruity A new england farmer was once describing in the presence of it a very humane person the great age and debility of a horse that abat he be formerly owned and used you ought to have killed him interrupted the humane person indignantly well drawled the farmer we did almost