She will be much happier.



THE COMIC MAN.

He follows the hero all over the world. This is rough on the hero.

What makes him so gone on the hero is that when they were boys
together the hero used to knock him down and kick him. The comic man
remembers this with a glow of pride when he is grown up, and it makes
him love the hero and determine to devote his life to him.

He is a man of humble station--the comic man. The village blacksmith
or a peddler. You never see a rich or aristocratic comic man on the
stage. You can have your choice on the stage; you can be funny and of
lowly origin, or you can be well-to-do and without any sense of humor.
Peers and policemen are the people most utterly devoid of humor on the
stage.

The chief duty of the comic man's life is to make love to
servant-girls, and they slap his face; but it does not discourage him;
he seems to be more smitten by them than ever.

The comic man is happy under any fate, and he says funny things at
funerals and when the bailiffs are in the house or the hero is waiting
to be hanged.

This sort of man is rather trying in real life. In real life such a