Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — The Practical Joke. [ARTICLE]

The Practical Joke.

The practical Joke is a remnant of barbarism. Hunted back to its origin It is a survival of the methods of tortun* hi vogue with savages the world over. Tlie idea behind every practical Joke Is the Infliction of pain, shame, fear or ridicule upon the victim. It ia not often that tingle effects follow a Joke, repeating, the news chronicles of the dally press, but when one reflects that tlw real object of every alleged "Joke" of the practical kind Is simply to Inflict physical or mental pain upon some one, It seems as if it must be time, by tlie dock of t)ie ages, for the practice to ent! at least among civilized and half-civilized people.—Woman’s Home (’ompatdon. The fortunate man is he who, born poor or nobody, works gradually up to wealth mid consideration and. having got JJjent. dies before he finds they were Mot worth so much trouble.— Charles Reade. At n college for the blind at Norwood the Inmates nre nil taught to ride n cycle. The machines nre built to seat from six to ten persons, and are steered by the Instructors, who take tbs front sent. The world will tolerate roguery longer than Ignorance.