p. 16 | Practical Jokes

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 33.

Practical Jokes

It does not take a large or an acute mind to get some one to snub their nose against a finger as they turn the head when spoken to; the removal of a chair from some one about to sit down does not require a stupendous intellect. One of very small brains may accomplish such feats; turn the nose on somebody; hit a glass when some person is drinking, or do a thousand and one foolish things, which many times bring pain, distress, or disaster to others. For instance, a girl in Southern California, the other day, attempted to fill a gasoline tank while the stove was burning. This was a very unsafe thing to do; but she probably would have escaped injury had not a foolish boy turned a garden hose toward her. She jumped, spilled some gasoline, an explosion took place, and she was terribly burned, the injury resulting in death shortly afterward. Three young people were drowned at Spanaway Lake, near Tacoma, July 28, because, it is said, some of the party thought it would be nice to rock the boat and frighten the girls. “Folly is joy to him ‘that is destitute of understanding.’”