Playing at Newspaper-Making.
When amateur papers attain the excellence of those made by professional journalists it is time for the latter fellows to bestir themselves. Ye Round-Table Jester comes to us from Brooklyn—the Avalonia Chapter, No. 792, No. 369 Lewis Avenue. The publishing committee consists of Sir Knights William Hathaway, Beverly Sedgwick, Frederic Cook, and Russell Molyneux. It is mimeograph print, type-writer text, in two colors, and profusely illustrated by "Bev"—Mr. Beverly S. King, who has won several Round Table illustration prizes. The prospectus says the artistic abilities of the Chapter "had to find vent somewhere." Genius always "gets there," you remember.
The front-page illustration shows two Knights, one of 1396, the other of 1896. One is in armor on a horse, the other in knickerbockers on a bicycle. Here are some Jester jokes:
BUT IT WOULDN'T WORK.
Mommer. "Johnny, what's Willy crying about? And why have you got that baby sitting out there in the sun?"
Johnny. "Why, Popper told me that if I left his tools out in the sun it would take all the temper out, so I thought I'd see if I couldn't get a little temper out of the baby."
ONE KIND OF A SCORCHER.
Tommy. "Say, Pop, I saw Bridget scorching this morning."
Pop. "What's that? Bridget on a wheel? I'll give her notice at once!"
Tommy. "Oh, that's all right, Pop. She was only scorching your shirt when she ironed it."
Kinks.
No. 23.—An Anagrammatical Acrostic.
If the cross-words—of equal length—are rightly guessed, one of the vertical columns will spell the name of an English scientist and astronomer of world-wide fame. The name is also concealed in the anagram.