Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — Taste in Jokes. [ARTICLE]

Taste in Jokes.

There are jokes and jokes. George Eliot says: “A difference in taste in jokes is very trying to the affections,” which wise expression is put to the test more frequently than you would think, if you didn’t take the trouble to think about it at all. How often has a friend told you something that he considered a good joke when the recital has betrayed a lack of sense, taste, or heart which you did not suspect before and which lowered him very much in your esteem.—Cincinnati Saturday Night.