Salt Lake Times | 1890-12-06 | Page 6 | A Cold Day for a Funny Man

A Cold Day for a l'unny Man. Talking about making people laugh I Lew Dockstuder says: I remember I onto sat up two nights to prepare a batch of new jokes and theu sprang them on my audience. The house wan packed with people. Not a Mnilo, not a ripple. Finally I began to weaken. The cold chills wero playing peek-a-boo up and down my spinal column. col-umn. I was in a refrigerator. At last in desperation I walked to the middle of ', tho stage and said: 1 "Ladies and gentlemen. I merely tell these things; I don't explain them." , Tho remark caused a kind of a consumptive con-sumptive grin. Since that timo I have told some of those jokes in every large city in tho United States, and they have proved to bo tho best tilings I have ever j had. The secret of how to raise a lauli ! is always in ttie kindergarten stage. No matter how hard a man tries he never j seems to got beyond tho ABC of it. Ernest Jarrold in New York Journal.