Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1910 — Englishman’s Defense. [ARTICLE]

Englishman’s Defense.

When Booker T. Washington was in England in 1899 he found the average Englishman very stolid. * “it was hard for me to get accustomed to speaking to English audiences,” he writes. ”Tfir average Englishman is so serious and is so tremendously in earnest about everything that when I told a story that would have made an American audience roar with laughter the Englishman looked me straight in the face without even cracking a smile.*’ And the London Chronicle explains: “The trouble is not that the Englishman does not see the American joke, but that he saw it before the Mayflower sailed, and no longer thinks it new and funny* .. ■o'. ’- '