Judge — September 11, 1915 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Their humor is out of date chiefly because it was fre- quently painstaking and its architecture Gothic. fhe humorists of that day contributed ither a string of jokes, after the fashion of ley, The Danbury News Man, or a weekly page of sketches. Those who’ took the latter course created characters whose adventures or philosophy were eagerly atched for, and whose personalities became definite in the minds of readers. Just now it is not recalled that any of these characters broad or coarse or deserving of the slap- stick epithet except Petk’s Bad Boy. Brud- der Gardner, the rhetorical and voluble negro elder who thundered weekly at his flock in The Detroit Free Press, was some- re with erring ones, but always conscious of his dignity. Pe: rhaps Mr. Spoopendyke, who perpetually improving his wife’s mind and then finding out that she was in the right all the time, may have been a little too violent—moving- pictureish perhaps—but only in the expres- sion of his misplaced indignation; and he was a definite character, made such by Stanley Huntley of The Brooklyn Eagle, and not a mere clown. Alex Sweet had a whole cast of characters in Tex; ftings, each sharply marked and outstanding, such as the shrewd colored parson, the Rev. Whangdoodle Baxter; Mose Schaumburg, the persuasive slopshop merchant, and Uncle Mose, the personification of negro dignity and alertn: The same was true ie Read's creations in The Arkansas The only writer of to-day who their creative ability and method is Philander Johnson of The Washington Star, whose characters—Senator Sorghum, Mr. Chuggins the automobilist, Mr. Dustin Stax the millionnaire, and young Mrs. Torkins—are as clearly marked and dis- tinctive as they could be if he had portrayed them in a novel instead of in paragraphs. A different style was that of Robert J. Burdette, first of The Burlington Hawk and then, on Huntley’s death, of The Brooklyn Eagle. He engaged in long and humorous dissertations, and there was nothing of the slapstick about them; often there was slightly masked philosophy and ethics of a true and high sort; and, despite the change in fashion, we doubt if Burdette would be a whit less popular if his work were beginning to-day than it was when he began it in the sevent Bill Nye, following the same plan, was broader, but he was richer, too; and there is plenty of Nye’s work which is still funny. There is nothing out of date, for insta n his story of the farmer who charged him go cents for a glass milk, and when Nye indignantly a: reason, explained, “Well, L’ll tell. ye. Wine Jelly when favored with Abbott's Bitters ts made hiful and healthful. Sample of bitters by mall, sin stamps. CW ADbOL & Co. Baltimore: Std. 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