Show ARE companions Remar remarkable kabI a fact that humor humors and melancholy seem fond of each others company too often humor and melancholy go together they keep company like a girl who likes to dance and a follow who writes nice gloomy poetry they gett fettled ted together hut but they dont hitch they like oil and water not they tell us ua that some soma ot of the tha newspaper humorists who actually make people laugh are sometimes very glum and melancholy at home and cant see a joke any quicker than anybody else when ita on themselves its too bad that a humorist should thus belle his profession but hes bes mortal anyway and who doe sut it was waa said that lincoln had to make joked to relieve care ile he said were it not noll for this occa occasional L tonal vent I 1 should die the vent 0 of f the humorist Is melancholy let him kick the cat let him complain of the oatmeal let him look glum as an owl he too Is entitled to a little variety let him read bur tons anatomy of melancholy or mrs airs caudales Caud les lectures tor for that matter hes entitled to something pensive by the way burton aforesaid has given in hla his anatomy a picturesque ve description of mirth it la is ho he says bays a principal engine to batt batter erthe the walls of melancholy lie ile must have hava had horseplay horse play in mind our idea la Is that humor Is a little eddy in the rush ing mill millstream tream of life where i a fellow can test rest awhile and fish |