Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — Too Much of a Good Thing. [ARTICLE]

Too Much of a Good Thing.

“Even assuming that humor Is the salt of life, we don’t want to eat salt with a spoon. But here in America everything .seems to he sacrificed to humor. Your politics have to be made humorous. Your oourts of justice have to amuse. Before a great time has gotie by you will he having funny sermons. We shall hear that Ltev. Mr. So-and-So’s Sunday morning sermon was a real screamer —that it was received w r ith roars of laughter. Then ths church service will be considered a bit too slow, and will have to be rewritten by some bright young humorist from a newspaper office. Your very murder cases will have to be made ‘bright.’ It is a foregone conclusion that domestic tragedies shall be sidesplitting. I really am not sure that ih time America will not get a comical funeral service, with a low-comedy undertaker.”'—Jerome K. Jerome in the Cosmopolitan. •