Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-15
FROM DIFFERENT STANDPOINTS.

(OJd Maid Gossip at The Windoao Of her
TOOna:)
AS SURE as / live if there amt the
Widow Trip taking a promenade to
show herself off. Now, | must keep
sharp lookout, for, as everybody knows,
widows are very suspicious characters
need a great deal of watching.
It's my opinion she has very indie
pendent walk for a person in her posi-
ton; doesn't look nor act at all heart
broken, nor broken down in any way,
as she should do, who has lost the
strong support of a departed husbands
arm.
Sakes alike! She has lifted her veil;
and OH saints protect me, she's painted!
Lifting her veil and painting her face
already, and her poor, misused husband
not been dead six months till the day
after tomorrow. What if the day is hot
and sitting q wish that paint would
melt), it doesn't follow that because the
mercury goes up her veil should do like
wise; and, | declare, it's amazing, the
length of that veil, nearly to the bottom
of her dress; and that, too, trimmed
with Grape. It's mystery to me where
the money came from, but then I have
heard some dreadful stories about that
woman. The way she behaved, too,
when er husband died (which I think
was disgraceful performance, sobbing
and shrieking over him like mad,
and then, as if that was not enough,
fainting away in the doctors arms,
or pretending to, and he poor,
innocent, single man. Oh! I saw it all
through the window when I went over to
console with her, and it makes the lndig-
nation fly right out of me like sparks of
fire just to think of it. But then. of
course, it's all put on, like her clothes, a
purpose to advertise her widowhood. Oh,
the tricks widow will be up to; it's
past all believing, even to ones own
senses. And going out to her husbands
flowers; that's another of her horribly
deceiving ways, and, as | think, a dread
full piece of nonsense and extravaganza
To my mind she could better show her
true sorrow by staying quietly at home,
locking it in her own heart and saving
her money (and l say again it's beyond
me to tell where she gets it,, than by
parading herself after that fashion.
No! Oh! Oh, mercy! stretching her
long neck, and standing with her green
Gc
strange | did not notice that before, for,
as true as my name is Allpeddle Gossip,
that woman is not only powdered and
painted but has on black and lavender
tie, and her husband only dead six months!
Shameless, heartless creature! What a
terrible warning that should be to every
living man, even if they had not been
warned before, as my poor heart has
ached to warn them many times, to % be-
ware Of the widows" for -
Obi dear me, if there isn't Mr.. Weeds,
the widower. Poor, dear man, how grief
stricken he does look-coming by here,
too. do hope that my collar is rig htlv
adjusted and my hair combed down to
the proper degree of smoothness, for,
as like as not, he will look up and bow.
What beautiful black suit he has, and
such wide mourning band on his hat
(poor, lonely man, how my heart bleeds
for him); / wonder that he did not have
them still wider, with flowing ends; it
would have been appropriate to his feel.
ings, | am sure, and such an example of
loving devotion to the memory of his
dear departed wife.
But, then, no one can possibly doubt
that, for every week he takes one of his
Children beautiful, motherless babes,
on! could they become mine) and small
bouquet OF flowers, and visits her grave