Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — Bangs a Prolific Joke Writer. [ARTICLE]

Bangs a Prolific Joke Writer.

Carl Hauser, who was the editor of the Genuau edition of Puck and now the maker of one of the most successful almanacs In the country nnd a humor* ous lecturer besides, tells a reminiscence of John Kendrick Manx*, editor of Harper's Weekly. It treats of a time when rhe distinguished Yonkers man was writing Jokes for Pink In the early 'Bos and could turn out more of them In twenty-four hours than any other man In that particular line—- " One day," said Mr. Hauser, "the young man whose duty It was to read all the Jokes sent to the English edition of Puck came to ipe much agitated and perplexed. • “ ‘Here,’ said he, ‘I have received a hundred Jokes to-day.from that man Bangs. And he sends me all the time a hundred each day. Why. he must be worked to death, Ills mind must be nearly worn out.’ ’’ And Mrs. Hauser answered: “It la easy work for him. In fact, H Is mere re-creation.”—New York World. When a girl loves a man who is disliked by her parents, which should win —love for the man or love for the parents?