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A Cheerful Year Book 
 
. 
 
A 
 
 Cheerful Year Book 
 
 FOR THE RECORDING OF 
 
 Engagements and Other Serious Matters 
 
 ACCOMPANIED BY 
 
 Philosophic and Moral Aphorisms for the Instruction of Youth, 
 the Inspiration of Maturity and the Solace of Age 
 
 BY 
 
 F. M. KNOWLES 
 
 The same being Illustrated with Tasteful and Illuminating 
 Pictures 
 
 BY 
 
 C. F. LESTER 
 
 And the whole Introduced and Concluded with 
 Profound and Edifying Remarks 
 
 BY 
 
 CAROLYN WELLS 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 
 
 1906 
 

 %\ 
 
 LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
 Two Copies Received 
 
 OC1 13 ! 906 
 
 ^ Copyright Entry 
 
 <U,J6.'lo ( * 
 
 CLASS A XXc\, No, 
 
 /J"JfOO % 
 
 COPY B. 
 
 Copyright, 1906 
 
 BY 
 
 HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 
 Published October, zoo6 
 
 ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK 
 
A 
 
 PROLOG 
 
 late lamented poet said that * Life is 
 earnest, Life is real ' ; but when this 
 volume you have read, quite differently you 
 may feel. Though life is earnest to a poet, 
 I 'tis frivolous to us who know it. Reality and 
 j earnestness are noble qualities indeed ; a store 
 of them we should possess to draw upon in 
 time of need. But Life presents us for our 
 choosing, a lot of things much more amusing. 
 
 'The average citizen to-day has far more lives 
 than any cat; just think it over and you'll say, 
 upon mature reflection, that the Foolish Life is 
 much less trouble than Simple, Strenuous or 
 Double. In the well-balanced intellect, in the 
 well-rounded thinking mind, a taste for nonsense 
 we detect, a love of foolery we find. And in 
 this vale of tears, no one entirely lacks a sense 
 of fun. Jocosity's a splendid thing, a world of 
 joy lies in a jest; and Humor, just like Hope, 
 will spring eternal in the human breast. And I 
 
17" PROLOG 
 
 opine the average sinner enjoys a joke as well 
 as dinner. 
 
 Then what a pleasure it must be to bubble 
 forth spontaneous fun in quick and witty repar- 
 tee, in clever epigram or pun, and print them 
 in a cheerful book where every one is glad to 
 look ! The essayist must write with care ; the 
 poet has to court his muse ; the novel-writer 
 must beware lest some old hackneyed plot he 
 use ; and even a good-natured critic must be 
 abstruse and analytic. The humorist has an 
 easy task, his hardest work is merely play ; nor 
 leave nor license need he ask, he skips along a 
 primrose way. 
 
 His joy of course is tenfold greater when 
 working with an illustrator. You know on His- 
 tory's earliest page primitive man hewed out 
 his jokes, and each successive passing age has 
 shown its batch of funny folks ; until to-day on 
 Fame's fair rolls we see the name of F. M. 
 Knowles. 
 
 To be a fool is easy, yes. But ah, my friends, 
 'tis not the same to write the sort of foolishness 
 that brings you glory, wealth and fame; but 
 Knowles is jest this sort of jester; so is his 
 colleague, Mr. Lester. 
 
 Oft nen and pencil side by side harmonious 
 
PROLOG 
 
 work. And yet it seems they are more closely 
 co-allied in humorous than serious themes; and 
 to this book's diverting text amusing pictures 
 are annexed. 
 
 This masterly and able work deserves my 
 utmost panegyric; within its veiled allusions 
 lurk sharp shafts sagacious and satiric. And I 
 would like to call attention to just a few that I 
 shall mention. 
 
 For instance, take the one that shows how 
 many a man in love is reckless ; and as a birth- 
 day gift bestows upon his love a diamond neck- 
 lace, with thirty stones to mark her years,— 
 then wonders why she bursts in tears! Who 
 wisely gives this due reflection will hie him to 
 a diamond store, and sapiently make selection 
 of twenty-three or twenty-four. Thus he judi- 
 ciously may save the price which for this book 
 he gave. 
 
 Although it sometimes seems to me no man 
 could so far lose his wits as to sit calmly on a 
 tree, and saw the limb on which he sits ; yet I 
 don't ratify or doubt it, I'm only here to talk 
 about it. 
 
 Then note this wisdom unalloyed : " The 
 smaller foot, the greater shoebill." A thinking 
 man may thus avoid an awkward and enormous 
 
vi PROLOG 
 
 duebill, and fill with joy his wedded life, by 
 choosing a large-pedalled wife. A young man 
 this advice should take, faith in this foot-rule 
 he should put; and shun as he would shun a 
 snake the dainty lass with tiny foot; then turn 
 appreciative eyes toward buxom maids with feet 
 of size. 
 
 This theory leads us on to think (the mind 
 performs such quick contortion!) if size of feet 
 make shoebills shrink exactly in inverse pro- 
 portion, — if large feet make a shoebill small, 
 what size would mean no bill at all ? 
 
 Again, as we may taste among these pungent 
 literary spices, this piquant morsel bites our 
 tongue, — " Who has no virtues has no vices." 
 A mind well freed from all delusion must draw 
 this ethical conclusion : 
 
 Of virtues fain we'd be possest, but they 
 command such fearful prices. So we're de- 
 lighted to invest in some well-recommended I 
 vices ; and as our lists of vices mount, thus 
 virtues add to our account. 
 
 But why take up this time and space ? I'm 
 sure 'twere better if I ceased saying this some- 
 what lengthy grace when you're impatient for 
 the feast. (Although I deem this Introduction a 
 gem of verbalesque construction.) 
 
PROLOG vii 
 
 I can't say all that's in my mind, I'm ham- 
 pered by convention's strictures ; but I am sure 
 that you will find amusement in these jokes and 
 pictures ; for in a jest or sketch (or rhyme,) 
 skilled labor gets there every time. 
 
 But how I rattle on ! And truly, I do detest 
 to seem diffuse ; my old goose-quill is so un- 
 ruly when once it starts. And what's the use ? 
 I know you'll own this book yourself, and keep 
 it on your handiest shelf. 
 
 I 
 
THE AUTHORS' APOLOGY 
 
 UPON the word of several truly great and 
 noble jokesmiths, there are only seven 
 basic jests in existence, and all others are but 
 sidelights, as it were. Inasmuch as the original 
 seven have had their tails pretty severely twisted 
 in the present instance, we feel that, notwith- 
 standing Miss Carolyn Wells' introduction and 
 benediction, something in the way of an Authors' 
 Apology is no more than fair to the public. 
 
 Imprimis, we had considered dedicating the 
 book " to those who found within it no mirror 
 of themselves " and, in a generally modest and 
 retiring way, making a quick retreat into the 
 middle distance of a few personal platitudes. 
 But, having read Miss Wells' comments, we are 
 convinced that anything introductory from us 
 would be worse than superfluous. We had no 
 idea just how sweet and tasty these few pic- 
 tures and aphorisms were, until we had bathed 
 our souls in Miss Wells' gems of metered 
 
THE AUTHORS' APOLOGY 
 
 thought. Now a soft air of contentment lulls us 
 to gentle revery as we seem to hear in swelling \ 
 cadences the mellifluous music of her epics try- 
 ing to grasp our hands across a verbal chasm, 
 strewn with jasmine and daffy-down-dillies. 
 (Our metaphor may be a bit tangled, but no 
 doubt the reader will catch the idea.) There- 
 fore, of course, we have nothing at all to say — 
 and are trying hard to say it. 
 
 That someone, sometime, somewhere may have 
 expressed ideas somewhat similar to some few 
 of those that are to follow, is possible. But we 
 feel that, in such an event, it is doubtful if any 
 will be found willing to confess it. So, with the 
 simple request that the public be sure to read 
 Miss Wells' brilliant epitome of the art of being 
 a humorist, and without further apology on our 
 own part, we who are guilty of the coarse sub- 
 stance of this little volume tender it solely for 
 what there is in it. 
 
 Frederick Milton Knowles. 
 Charles Fitch Lester. 
 
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V, 
 
 EPILOG 
 
 DEAR FRIEND, I'm sure you'll now admit 
 I didn't do too much extolling; 
 I didn't overdo a bit 
 
 My little task of prolog-rolling. 
 And I am sure you now agree 
 In the opinions held by me. 
 
 Of course there may be many a tome 
 Filled with more prosy erudition ; 
 
 This little whiff of froth and foam 
 May not attract a grave logician. 
 
 But of the human rank and file 
 
 The greater part will read and smile. , 
 
 And truly, is it not the best 
 
 And most praiseworthy of employment^ 
 To rouse within the human breast 
 
 A sense of humorous enjoyment ? 
 To cause two smiles to bud and blow 
 Where only one smile used to grow ? 
 
EPILOG 
 
 Then whatsoe'er your creed or birth, 
 
 If clergy or if laity, 
 If you opine this book of mirth 
 
 Adds to the nations' gayety, 
 Assist in its dissemination 
 And join with me in adulation. 
 
 So many people will be glad 
 To read this cheerful little year-book ; 
 
 The old, the young, the good, the bad, 
 Will all consider it a dear book. 
 
 (I mean that in affection's sense, 
 
 And not regarding the expense.) 
 
 If you've a friend in rugged health, 
 
 Or one who isn't well at all ; 
 If you've a neighbor of great wealth, 
 
 Or one whose income's rather small, 
 Read him some extracts, and you'll find, 
 He, you and I are of one mind. 
 
 But why, oh, Reader, should I tarry, 
 Belauding Lester, praising Knowles ? 
 
 They've won more wreaths than they can carry, 
 Newcastle is no place for coals ; 
 
 And so, reluctantly I say 
 
 Good-by, — and tear myself away. 
 
 Carolyn Wells. 
 


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