THE WIDOW’S WINDOWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 October 1919, Page 3

THE WIDOW’S WINDOWS.

The widow -had three large windows overlooking the route of Paris’s Tmunlph Day; and as she was rather out of date it did not Occur to her to let them for a large sum to strangers. The “Morning Post” tells the story. Instead she invited a number of armless and legless poilus to’ sit in the right and left windows and watch the procession pass, explaining th.-1;, centre one was engaged. But no one came to occupy it, and while the troops with bands and banners marchproudly ‘by, the widow, to her guests’ a.ma.zement,.sa.t at the. back of the room with her head in her hands. When it was all over one of the grateful guests said:—“So your friends never came, after all!” “Oh, yes; they were there,” she replied, quietly. “My son, my grandson and my son-i:l—law_ They all gave their lives for France! ”