Show THE BLESSINGS OF HUMOR moral drawn from career of the late max 0 rell reif if there is a moral to be drawn from the career of max mal 0 rell reif it con cerns the practical value of a sense of humor in promoting the comity of nations the satirist lets people by the ears but the humorist by teach ing them to smile smil at each others amiable weaknesses predisposes them to friendship we and the french are undoubtedly the better friends and the more conscious of our common humanity tor for the genial manner in which M paul blouet al chaffed john bull and jacques bonhomme As the merry mu friend of the middle classes of the two countries he rendered a ser vice to which they may now join in paying tribute and one wonders without feeling unduly sanguine whether there will ever arise among our foreign language masters a ger man max orell 0 rell whose kindly jests will have an equally salutary effect upon our relations with our kinsmen london graphic |