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Show Some years ago a well-known American Amer-ican humorist entered. into an engagement engage-ment to write funny articles for a newspaper, but before long he discovered discov-ered that to be really funny every day was quite too much for any man, and that he muBt either be content to fall very much below his own standard or to-resign-his post. He ohose the latter. lat-ter. Those 'who, have watched the gradual decadence of "the funny . man'1- who daily fills a column of the editorial pago of one flf our contem--poraries must have .noted, a similar falling ofl'. Had his contributions been limited to twice or thrice a week, he might have continued to produce the really amusing work which he-did at first;, but a diurnal column of fun-nine.13 fun-nine.13 is obviously far too heavy a strain upon his powers, and his arti-.clee arti-.clee have begnn to degenerate into a ghastly burlesque of real . drollery. New York Sun. 'J-- : ' - , J - |