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Show When All the World Was Sad. ) "Was there ever a lime In )our 1 life," a guxhlng )oung lady once , asked a popular comedian, In tores of the tenderest sentiment, "when nil the world appeared to you n dreary 1 waste when your henrt sank as lead within ou, when all the sweet springs j of your llfo seemed turned to bitter- 1 1 ncsii, when all light was dark nnd all friends false, and death seemed tho ( greatest boon the gods could offorj" ' . The actor took a mental but unscntl- 1 mental Journe) Into tbo realms ot his past llfo and replied gloomily. "Indeed "In-deed there was, nnd I can remember i It as though It wcro yesterday, 1 was only 12 ears of ago at tho time, 1 and I retolvod from thnt moment never to smoke nuother cigar until I was a man." |