Show ADAM SPRUNG FIRST JOKE Asked Eve If 11 She Expected an Ichthyosaurus Ich Ich- urus When She Objected to Spider on n Rose 4 d We believe that In the time Garden of oC Eden Edel Adam gave Eve a rose in exchange exchange ex ex- change for a 11 kiss And she shuddered and said Ugh I Theres There's a spider on the rose rose I And he answered Well VeIl what do you expect for one stingy littie little lit lit- tie tic kiss kiss kiss-an an Ichthyosaurus We believe that to be time tIle oldest Joke jole In the world world older older than the goat the I mother Jaw law in-law or an any that are supPOSed supposed sup sup- posed to be included in the Original Seven In Yar varying f forms one finds ItIn Itin it itIn In the tIme Talmud In Plautus in Aesop In Rabelais in Joe Miller l in all nIl th the almanacs and comic papers When we were a bo boy It was told in ina a minstrel show thus A man bu buys s 's a asuit asuit asuit suit of clothes at a second hand store He lie comes hack back and amI complains that the coat is Inhabited by unpleasant insects And the dealer sa says s Well what do you u expect for 5 5 li ll birds s Vaudeville knows it In this form Tenant Look Tenant Look here you'll have to tomake tomake make male some repairs in this house The cellar is full of water I Landlord Landlord- Well Vell what lint do you ou expect for 15 a month month champagne champagne II And just last week weel we ran across our old friend again in a weekly comic paper This time a passenger on a street car calls down the conductor for not the names of ot the streets distinctly And the c conductor replies Well Vell what do you expect for 14 a n aweeka week week week-a. a tenor solo Lastly Lastly Lastly-a a few days s 's ago we ran a aversion aversion version of the old thing timing in this column We Ve cut Its hair trimmed its whiskers and fitted It with a new suit sult but we could coul not disguise it completely When you ou run across it in an any of Its cosI costumes cos cos- I tunics send us a clipping will you We are making a collection of that I Joke |