Show QUALITIES OF WIT AND HUMOR Alike Yet In Many Ways Fundamentally Fundament-ally Different Wit and humor are such elemental fundamental things that It has always been found dlfllcult to analyze them says a writer In The Atlantic Upon some points however those who have essayed this puzzling task agree for they all hold that wit Is an intellectual intel-lectual humor an emotional quality that wit is a perception ot resemblance resem-blance and humor a perception of I contrast of discrepancy of incongruity incongru-ity The incongruity is that which arises between the ideal and the fact between theory and practice between promise and performance and perhaps per-haps It might be added that It Is always al-ways or almost always a moral incongruity In-congruity In tho case both of wit and humor there is also a pleasurable surprise a gentle shock which accompanies ac-companies our perception of the hitherto hith-erto unsuspected resemblance or incongruity in-congruity A New England farmer was once describing in tho presence pres-ence of a very humane person tho great age and debility of a horse that he formerly owned and used You ought to have killed him Interrupted Interrupt-ed the humane person Indignantly Well drawled tho farmer wo did almost I |