Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Deep Mourning. [ARTICLE]

Deep Mourning.

The manager of the theater racked his brain in vain. “We most do something.” he repeat* ed bitterly. “People will expect ns to do something to show respect to the proprietor now that he is dead.” “Shall we close for the night of the foneral?” suggested the assistant stage manager. « “With this business? You’re a fool, laddie, a fool. No; put the chorus in black stockings.” And it was even so.—Sporting Times.