Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — Home For “Old Jokes.” [ARTICLE]

Home For “Old Jokes.”

Dear Sir:—Old jokes as well as old folks should be provided with an asylum in their old age. Crazy jokes should be sent to an insane asjlum, and p or jokes to the poorhouse. The most deserving old joke I know of that is still working for a living is one my grandfather told me when I was a boy. This joke works on newspapers exclusively. Ido not think it has ever been on the stage. It is about a girl named Pearl. Pearl generally is employed as a waitress. She is asked her name by some fresh customers, and when she tells it she is asked if she is the Pearl without price. She answers No, she is the pearl that is cast before swine. This joke is older than I am. Yours truly, Noah Raby, aged 126.