Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1917 — Such Is Life. [ARTICLE]

Such Is Life.

“Alas!” she cried, “it is my fate, I might have expected it. All my life things have gone wrong with me. Luck has always been against me. I must have been born under an evil star.” “My dear,” her friend asked, “what has happened? Why are you so depressed?" “I have practiced 18 months to become able to shed tears at will, and now that I’ve got it, I can’t get a job either in melodrama or the movies.”— Judge.