Show TRUE HUMOR NOT OFTEN ACHIEVED BY FORCED WIT the one great quality finality that hint a humorist must have is an all insight lino into human catule some like mark maric twain develop it through a life of varied occupations anil and interests such writers keep them themselves seles es fi fresh e 11 and interesting interest int I 1 hy by getting I 1 out adiong people of many and different kinds in different sections of tile the country they are arc constantly restoring i themselves perhaps a hui humorist noris I 1 to he be at his best should 1 I bould he be also alo a rollin rolling stone certainly baliv of tile the best behl have been it is possible hut but it may not lie be so easy to acquire wit and wi wisdom sloin hy iy ay staging at home but a writer biti with aspirations to humor can very infrequently reach a high level hy by racking in his brains for odd sm similes lles bright wisecracks wise cracks and strained nonsense true humor is not achieved thus no matter liow how conscientiously one may try this is not to say that topical humor based on the he news of the lay day cannot reach literary heights it sometimes does as witness 0 finley peter dunnes old philosopher friend mr dooley sir mr Dool Doo leys cys comments were almost t wholly confined to subjects current in the news of his day 30 odd years ago but his shrewd sagacity and li homely oely philosophy render his comments pertinent to events of today which I 1 is the reason quotations from mr dooley are still so often encountered boston globe |