The Winsome Winning Widow.
She is modest, but not bashful — • Free and easy, but not bold , Like an apple, ripe and mellow — Not too young and not too old , Half inviting, half repulsive, Now advancing, and now shy — There is mischief in her dimple, There is danger m her eye. She has studied human nature, She is schooled in all its arts, She has taken the diploma
As the mistress of all hearts. She oan tell the very moment When to sigh and when to smile , Oh, a maid is sometimes charming, But a widow, all the while. Are you sad ? How very serious Will her gladsome face become 1 Are you angry ? She is wretched, Lonely, friendless, tearful, dumb. Are you mirthful ? How her laughter, Silver-soundmg, will ring out' She can lure, and catch, and play you, As the angler does the trout. Ye old bachelors of forty, Who have grown so bold and wise — ■ Young ooloniais of twenty With th& love^light in your eye6 — - Ye may piactise all the lessons Taught by Cupid since the fail, Sut I know a little widow Who can win and fool you all.
— Sydney "Newsletter."
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Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 164, 22 August 1903, Page 24
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193The Winsome Winning Widow. Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 164, 22 August 1903, Page 24
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