WHY WIDOWS WIN.
Arc tyidows really so fascinating ? Tke popular impression* seem's'tb be tEar«iigle" women are placed at an extreme, disadvantage ■nrhen brought into competition in the matrimonial race with those of their bci •who. h4v9 bnoe worn the orange blossoms and who have been compelled by cruel fate to assume the uablo habiliments of woe. Strange to say, widows themselves do not share in this almost universal opiuion. There 13 not one oi! them \vb<> does not believe that she is heavily " hjirviicapped," po to s.^y, in the contest, and who would not gladly exchange; pineeS; \ T ; she oould, with her f-\n»Ja. sisters. The attractive widow, novorfciietess, carries off the bapbelor aweejist^vkes very oflen. |eftvin^ her spinster rivnls pale with envy aud wild with I'flg-. Her conquests, how* ever, are very much exaggerated. Widows who have not a comfortable bank account or a corner lot find it aa difficult to elicit a pro. poaal a.s other dowerless members of the sex.' Whom we first love we; rarely marry has become a truism, and herein lies the advantage of the widow with a large dower right. The old admirers return and the old flame is easily relighted. Beauty in distress with a good-sized package of goverflm.ent; bonds is something quite, W^sistiWe.— K. Y. Journal,
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 305, 13 November 1883, Page 5
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