Show ARE ILL MATED companions remarkable fact that humor 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 fellow who writes nice gloomy poetry they get tied together but they don t bitch they like oil and water not they tell us that some of the 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 it a on themselves its too bad that a humorist should thus belle his profession but he s mortal anyway and who doean doesn t it was said that lincoln bad to make joke to relieve care he said were it not for athla occasional vent I 1 should die the vent of the humorist is melan choly 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 burton a anatomy of or mrs caudle s lectures for that matter hes entitled to something pensive by the way burton aforesaid has given in his anatomy a esque description of mirth it Is be bays a principal engine to batter th walls of melancholy he must havo had horseplay horse play in mind our idea ll 11 that humor is a little eddy in the rush ang millstream of life where a fellow can rest awhile and fish |