Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1917 — FUNNY PROPOSITION IS LIFE [ARTICLE]

FUNNY PROPOSITION IS LIFE

Did you ever sit and ponder, sit and wonder, sit and think, why we’re here and what this life is all about? It’s a problem that has driven many brainy men to drink. It’s the weirdest thing they’ve tried to figure out; about a thousand different theories all the scientists can show. But never yet proved a reason why. With/ all we’ve thought and all we’ve taught, why, all we seem to know is, we’re bom and live awhile and die. Life’s a very funny proposition,' after all. Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and gall; three meals a day, a whole lot to say; when you haven’t got the coin you’re always in the way. Everybody’s fighting as we wend our way along. Every fellow claims the other fellow’s in the wrong; hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call. Life is a funny proposition, after all. When all things are coming easy, and when luck is with a man, why, then, life to him Is sunshine everywhere. Then the fates blow rather breezy, and they quite upset a plan; then he’ll cry that life’s a burden hard to bear. Though tbday may be n day of smiles, tomorrow’s still in doubt. And what brings me joy may bring you care and woe. We’re born to die and don’t know why, ~bf“what’s It all about; and the more we try to learn the less we know. Life is a funny proposition, you can bet, and no one’s ever solved the problem properly yet; young for a day, then old and gray, like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away. Losing health to gain our wealth as through this dream we tour; everything’s a guessing and nothing’s absolutely sure. Batties exciting and fates we’re fighting until the curtain’s fall. Life’s fi very funny proposition, after all.—George M. Cohan.