Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1911 — Good Jokes [ARTICLE]

Good Jokes

NOT Tg BE MADE LIGHT OF. Marie Dressier is as famous for her epigrams as she is for her generosity. An actcr at the opera house was recalling* one of her justly famous hits of repartee. Miss Dressier was Inviting her friends to a birthday party. “There’ll be a cake, I suppose?” someone remarked. i “Yes, there’ll be a cake, never fear.” was the reply, 'rt; x;:r; “And candles, of course?” went oa the alleged wit “My friend,” said Miss Dressier, “this is to be a birthday party, not a torchlight procession.”—Rochester Herald.