A widow likes to start on Ik r mournful journey in a good style. It tends to make the trip to a second matrimonial state shorter. This particular widow's husband was about to he buried, nnd sympathising lady friends hrd provided the recently bereaved with mourning millinery, without consulting her tastes, not caring to intrude such matters on her sensitive nature at such a time. The result was an unbecoming bonnet, which, when she had taken one glance at iv the mirror, she tossed into the corner, with the remark : 1 Wear that barn-yard of a bonnet to the funeral ? No, ma'am ! You . bury that young man at your lei-ure. I'll stay at home.' And there was a flow of real tears. An editor was paralyzed while • sitting in church la.-t Sundr-v, and an esteemed .... (nation was too much for him.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 473, 4 February 1881, Page 2
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141Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 473, 4 February 1881, Page 2
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