Show AND tn of booie ailt arary men the dinners at which the artistic and literary staff of punch most powerful and renowned of comic papers has for many years gathered weekly for combined festivity and business have be apine a unique t nd famous institution A recent article in the Macra zine of art relates their history and some of huar most briliant brUli ant episodes and witti cismas never surely was a happier af pf play ana purpose than at some of thesa dinners where often amid almost boyish frolic laughter and flying personalities 0 the freest and funniest kind has been evolved the ie gend motto and cartoon that a bev days later have turned he force of wit to in indicating or influencing fluen cing the paley of empires among the many anecdotes of the merry men of punch one is related howe er which is not merry but shows hovy wholesome kindly and human that mirth must have been one of the earliest contributors percival iveigh nicknamed on account of his aly studies the professor lost in later life tha sense of humor upon which his maintenance depended lie came still to tha dinners where he told flat stories and sent to the editors reams of dull manuscript they never thought of reacting it remembering his usefulness in making the papers first success but that was not all by a tacit conspiracy the staf at th oakly dinner never failed to listed patiently pati entry to his dullest anecdotes nor to gratify him with laughter and applause at their close not only wa his worthless work accepted and for but tha editors dreading to hurt tha old mans pride and self respect took to have his contributions put in type and his proofs duly sent him trusting that he might account by some exigencies of apace or convenience arrangement for the emall portion eyer actually pu hUshed that portion was very small indeed yet occasionally they would tuck into an obscure corner of he paper the most passable af pf the poor old professors fes sors okes cpr hi gyesi alane 0 all the hundreds that would scan the columns the patience and ingenuity of their devices actually kept him to the end in ignorance that he had over lost the faculty of fun which once could set all england laughing |