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Show WHEN FATHER TELLS A JOKE Mother Sees Nothing Funny in It and' Daughter's Glance Is Expressive of Her Pity. When a man hears a Joke which hi primitive sense of humor classifies a "the funniest thing he had ever heard'' he hurries home to bear the glad tidings tid-ings to his wife. Father produces hi great discovery, but mother's countenance counte-nance remains untroubled by so much, as a smile, observes the New York Evening Eve-ning Sun. Nine wives out of ten wtll gaze blankly into that interesting emptiness to which woman's eyes are continually traveling over her husband's hus-band's shoulder. The tenth and cruel-est cruel-est creature will wither her spous with a penetrating stare which registers regis-ters : "I see nothing absolutely nothingfunny noth-ingfunny in that." Disgusted and baffled, the husband tells the same joke to his daughter. Her only indication of amusement Is a pitying uplift of the eyebrows1 and a subsequent absorption In her knitting. With his finger on the last unbroken string of hope father approaches his : nearest masculine relative. At last success suc-cess is his, for his son or his son-in-law or his uncle roars, applauds and slaps him on the back. Father bows to im-1 aginary audiences and compliments his fellow man on his perspicacity and hrs I fortunate possession of a sense of ho-; mor. He pities "those women those poor defective women." |