Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-05-26 | Page 16 | Jests Are Universal

JESTS ARE UNIVERSAL Certain Jests liko certain myths ox- ox let st In variants in all parts of ot tho the world Comparative Comparativo m mythologists are folklore folklore folk- folk lore ore of ot all aU races Vh why should they thoy not also bo be gathering together tho the r tive folk humor Cannot some HOmo comparative com corn philologist reconstruct for COr us the ho original Jest book of tho the Aryan people It would be vel very vety Interesting to o know tho the exact stock of ot Jokes our forefathers tool took with them In their migrations from tram the tho mighty east It would bo be JI most Instructive to be In Informed informed In- In formed Just how far tar they tho got In itt the tho theory and practice of oC humor It would be bo a pure jO Joy to discover precisely what might bo be the tho original fund of ot root Jests laughed at b by Touton and Latin and before these races were vere differentiated one from another b bj by time and travel and cli cli- cli mate I wonder r whether tho the pastoral Aryan Aron know and loved lo an ear early y form torm of ot Lambs Lamb's comic talo taleS tho the ono one in which a mad dog doj doga a wag asks tho thu rustic whether It is his own hair or a aWig awig wig And what did the tho haired dark IberIan IberIan Iberian Iber Iber- ian laugh laush at before tho the tall blonde Aryan Arnn drove him into the corner of ot Europe It probably v was as some practical Joke or other In which a 1 bone knife or a n. flint arrowhead played tho the chief part Tho The records of or the Semitic race rac aro familiar to us but we know l nothing or next to toI nothing about the humor of or th the tho alleged ed I P n and Ink