Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1923, Page 21

And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW Casper Sumdag Morning Trike VOLUME 32,0 MAGAZINE SECTION CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1923. MAGAZINE SECTION NUMBER 33. Me | : : Comic Relief: By W. E. HILL + Copyright, 1923, by The Chicago Tribune Fred and Emily have been spending what should have been a very gay evening with friends. They have been participants in one of those merry games where so-and-so is given a rating on per- sonality by the other guests. On a scale of ten, Fred wag awarded minus oné on sex at- traction, and Emily one- half of one per cent. on beauty. Fred and Emily are leaving early.. {A Comic relief among the office workers. Four-fifteen P. M. it is, and the tail erid of a dull, uninspired, grey day. Miss Dele- hanty, Mr. Klein and Mr. O'Day are rife, as it were, with gay banter and snappy jest. “Say, in about a. minute, I'll wrap this typewriter around your neck!” Miss Delehanty is saying to Mr. Klein. Mr. Klein, quick as a flash, will come back with the good old standby, “Step on it, kid!" ' And so it goes- af ; The ~ comic ™ after © dinner speaker, who by some hook or crook is reminded of a “little story I heard the other day”—pause, for ef- fect)—“about a Welshman who met an Irishman going to a wake with a Dutchman. Weil, Pat. sez he,” etc. etc, ht in the middle of the street, or anywhere, tne man with the inf of comic stories will nab you. “Did you hear the one about the man who told his wifefhe was dead?” the man with the line will in- ire knowingly, and if you are polite and laugh a thin’ hollow ugh the man with the line will tell you another. The young lady with the humorous experiences io like as not to shoot at sight, so beware. “Oh, I must tell you of the perfectiy ASININE thing I did last Tuesday—I NEVER felt such a PERFECT FOOL! Listen—” etc., etc, The perfect scream, who says such killing things. “Oh. you WILL enjoy meeting Mr. Kuttup—he hae SUCIL & sense of humor—you'll simply be in convulsions all eve- * So ran the verbal invitation. Bur, alas and alack an off evening for the perfect scream. He isn't performing well at all. o ee . ad é estat a dinner party has te be watched. One never can be quite sure just ‘A comic guest.at a ¢ " when she comic saliien will po over the Bornes Manic to aetgges beck into the Wutler’s The rough story, and how they meet it. “Say,” says the young man at the extreme left, “I heard that one the day I t Will you look at Rosa, © you dntact! She who is usually so restrained and dignified cradle, and it was old then.” Next is the young lady who is very, oh, very literal minded. “I don't think that’s very fu pbbaple-y ™ pantry with the creams ce sung Mr. Watts—not he who invented the steain engine— “Besides a polar bear wouldn't be allowed in a sleeping car. The conductor wouldn't let him in.” The third member <i the party is ‘a ‘of mein! And all becom the difference between a casserole and a camisgle?_ just the anticipating lady who screams and gurgles long befare the point is reached. By the time the climax is upon-her she is hysterical, 4 ing riddles. Bencice is asking that.of old Mrs.Whastoret