Show Paragraph Monkeying A writer in one our journals tells an amusing little story which ought to be a warning to any one who indulges in a little Hlang sometimesalthough I am of course quite certain that none of my readers come under such a category still I will go on with my recital It appears ap-pears that three of the newspapers collaborated collab-orated in a little comedy The beginning begin-ning of the joke was that one journal of sporting tendencies announcing the fact that the Duke of Westminster had just presented a 500 check to the Chester Ches-ter infirmary used the words a monkey mon-key to describe the gift This I believe be-lieve is the sporting phrase for J500 In due course a very proper and serious paper whose editor is presumably unacquainted unac-quainted with slang copied the paragraph para-graph and taking the monkey in it j most literal sense commented on the most curious present but added the editorial supposition that the monkey was intended no doubt for the sick children to play with And now a comic paper a really bona fide comic papertakes the paragraph from the religious re-ligious paper au serieux and enlarges upon it We may soon hear it says that the Prince of Wales has sent an African elephant to Guys or that Her Majesty has bestowed a cage of white mice upon the London hospital and I given a performing donkey to the Edinburgh Edin-burgh infirmary Readers who like me are painfully conscious of a defective sense of humor and who have wondered all their lives how the worlds jokes were made are hereby acquainted with the newest method If the writer of the original paragraph in the sporting paper referred to has seen the transmorgrifica tions his item has undergone he will be as much surprised as amused at the climaxLeeds Mercury |