Show FUNNY BREAKS BY ED COMPS CAUSE LAUGHTER niki 10 NEUMAN WRITES CURIOUS HOOK PART PAIIT or 01 IT ir VOTED TO MISPRINTS IN fred 0 neuman lias has written an exceptionally deception ally funny book entitled youth and other things published by tho the evening sun cali ky 1 out of which lie ho bas sen given us lyer mission luls slon to publish somo some of tho the mat ter relating to curious typographical errors thoy they are aio comical enough to interest our readers and we no tako take pleasure in reprinting them taken from bioni western newspaper unton union publishers Aul Aux lary Hary by iby PRED PRE D G NEUMAN grotesque and laugh provoking what Is funnier than ihan a typographical error in a newspaper some ot of the fam st jokes extant como come through tile tho fact that tho the printers linger finger slips blips usually theao mistakes or breaks br oaka aro are funny a long long time after ward nover ati at tho the time por instance several years ago a newspaper was threatened with suit because an ail ar a teclo was printed alious a arinia donna aa belne being engaged as a breon star to aati rt ct in tile the movies A typographical error made the heading beading read scream star was once singer r bo be auro aure dioro considerable froment in ili tho the editors sanctum before tile could lio be pacified yot yet no one detests tho the sight of an all error moro more than tile tho editor himself if someone could invent or suggest a way to forever do away with could mako make infallible tho the columns of a newspaper news tho editor would probably fool feel constrained to give that thai individual a loving cup and every community would wonia fool feel itka ilka naming streets in ills honor honer there la Is no getting away from it slips aro are sometimes terrible somehow everybody sees tho the incongruous tho the ridiculous tho the pare preposterous post pos erous when a preacher pro achor makes a ml tace nobody knows differ once or at least lias has not tile tho necessary information or facts at liand hand to call him to book it a doctor makes a mistake ho he buries it when an electrician errs in judgment judg mont lie ho blames it on induction because no one knows what it Is should a judge ninko a mistake it becomes tho the law lav ot ol tho the land if a plumber falls in somo same jointing ho he charges twice tor for it dut but if tho the newspaper printer orrs errs lu fit print tho offended will not forgive and tho the public cannot forgot forget suppose your name la its haselo Ilas klo would you not tool fool a bit peeved should you find in fit a local paper that nn an it had inadvertently placed itself where an ail it 11 ought to bo be you would certainly not bo be ablo to extract ns as much amusement from such an incident as your neighbors lint but your position would bo be no more sing than that of an ail american who had been for a tour around tho the world and found himself much annoyed with a report of his return tho the r ro port ended ills nui numerous nerous friends are surprised that lie ha Is ito iio sped aped to tho the newspaper office and nd in his fury could have grabbed the editor by ills wooly hair but learned chato the offender was wag tho the compositor who in setting up the report had omitted the letter c thus substituting tile word for unchanged which tho the reporter had written only recently a somewhat elaborated personal tolling telling of a young ladys visit and departure said she bho made ninny many lends fiends tho fact that au an r failed in uio tho personal noun giving the noo an entirely different meaning than thai that intended A buffalo paper in ili describing the scene when roosevelt took tho the oath of office as president said it waa a spectacle never to be forgotten when Koco evolt before the chief justice of the supreme court and a tow few witnesses took his simple slin pilo bath meaning oath of coarse but perhaps the most unfortunate error protruded it from the columns of a bridgeport conn newspaper last august in tho description of a wedding it read tho the bride carried an arm bou i quat of punk roses pink was the word intended but it seems tb gods aro are rowe powerless riess in tho the hands of tile printer else how can one account for a display line in an advertisement verti vor ti reading wo we shot the entire family when shoo alloo la Is moro more profitable and healthful less tragic but nearly as anibar embarrassing was waa tho the experience of a v reporter yhu who i had been assigned to cover tho the outdoor end of a fashionable church wedding ile iio described thu the throng of uninvited guests that had clustered about tile tho awning in hope of gaining a glimpse of the bridal patr pair as aa they emerged from tho the church to enter a walling waiting automobile and hu he recorded recorded tile tho result in tile the following words worda tho the comely bride was quick ly swept from sight by tile tho eager groom but tile tho forth thus tho the homely bride was quickly swept from froin sight bight by tho the r broom ones sympathy for tho the reported Is a lessened however by tho the fact that lie ho applied to a newly married man a term which should bo be confined Is ID a housemaid only those who havo have gone through an operation which Is fresh la in tile tho memory carl can appreciate tho the gravity and humor of a break in an ok dally daily mr blank who was waa operated on 0 n for appendicitis road an iwin item in tile western paper la is rapidly ills ilia many friends hope to seo see him cut again soon boon |