Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-12

While alone with your cup
Like hermit you sup,
och hone, Widow MachrCe."
The pathetic story OF Widow Malone, the
lovely widow of Aihlone who broke all hearts
''FrOm the minister down
To the clerks of the Crown,
All were counting the Widow Malone
All the lovers were too bashful.
It'll one, Mr.. OBrien, of Clare
Put bis arm around her waist.
Gave ten kisses. at Taste,
oh says he, you're my Molly Maloner"
And the moral:
.'If for widows You sigh
Learn TO Kiss. not to sigh,
For they ali like sweet Mistress Malone"
Mrs. Florence Won great applause singing
widow Bedott." who defied the young men to
come after her with catch me if you can, and
her quaint culogies OF Deacon Bedott.'
''WhO never jawed In all his life.
He never was unkind;
And though say, that was his wife,
Such men you seldom find"
QUEER CASE,
and one that should serve as model, was once
recorded OF an Irish widow who literally
starved herself to death on account of grief at
the death of her husband. Such devotion is
rarely seen outside of India. where the widows
burn themselves upon their husbands funeral
pyre. Died last week I'm King street Ornon-
1t y. IL
though In apparent bodily health, has OBJ
stinatey confined herself to her chamber ever
since the death of her beloved husband, which
occurred about SIX weeks since. and refused all
SuStenaDce but what was barely sufficient to
support All existence evidently burdensOme.
Her chamber was hung around with portraits of
her husband in different attitudes, which she
continually and alternately caresSed with
fervOr little short of worship, and perpetuallv
expressed aloud her wishes OF being with him, as
II she conceived his image animated or was sus-
ceptl5le OF her devotion. Under circumstances
wearing such strong marks of insanity, her rea-
son III every other respect was perfectly strong.
her department mild and her beneyoience to
the poor and oppressed cordial and unbOunded.
which size testified in numerous instances Her
constitution at length yielded to the force of
grief and rigid abstinence, and she died, after
having refused all sustenance for five days,
leaving the remainder of her property to dis
tressed objects.
APLUCKY WIDOW
All widows do not give up the ship as soon
as their husbands die on account of the brcvity
of their breath. Toward the close of the last
century tenant of Mr.. Way, at Hosketon, in
Suffolk. died, leaving widow with II children
the eldest of whom was q girl under il years of
age. He had rented ii acres of pasture land
on which he kept two cows These cows. with
his little furniture ard clothing we're all the
property It itil- lHt PARISH o. y HlSH lie Htu
been an inhabltant was within the district of an
Incorporated house of industry where the rue
was to receive proper objects within the walls
but not to allow anything iur the outpOOr cX-
cept in peculiar eases. The directors of the es-
tablishment offered to relieve the widow by
taking her seven youngest children into the
house. When this was proposed to her she re-
piled in great agitation that she would
rather die in working to maintain her children
than part with any OF them; or she would 70 with
all OF them into the house and work toT them
there; but If her landlord would continue her in
the farm she would undertake TO bring up the
whole fourteen without any help from the
parish She was @ strong woman, about forty
five years old and of noble spirit: happily too
she had TO deal with q benevolent man He
told her she should continue his tenant and hold
the laud for the first year rent Free and at the
same time, unknown TO her, he directed his re-
ceiver not to call upon her afterward thinking
with even that Indulgence it would be great
thing If she could maintain SO large a family.
But this further liberality was not needed. She
brought her rent regularly every year after the
fir [. held the land until she had placed twelve
of the children in service, and then resigned ii
to take the employment OF q nurse, which would
enable her to provide for the remaining two for
the little time longer they needed support, and
which was more suited to her declining years.
BURNING Up WIDOWS
This delicate, refined and religious custom of
the Hindoo widow. disdaining to live after her
husband, mounts the funeral pyre on which his
body Is placed, displays an amabiity or faith
only equaled by the doctrines of antique Ortho-
doxy, which condemns every babe not baptized
to eternal torments. 1t is claimed that the Gus
tom was introduced with a view of making
wives more careful of preserving their husbands
when alive. wife poisoned her husband, and,
to prevent all others from following her exam
pie. 1t was decreed that when husbands died
their wives should die with them. This theory
is, however, at variance with the idea that the
sacrifice must be voluntary. Last season. when
the kiralfy Brothers put on around the World
In Eighty Days" AOnda, the Rajahs widow and
heroine of the play. was not anxious to be burned
up, and she appealed to European tourists. who
rescue her 10y strategy from her rate The tour
lists persuade their valet. PassepartOut to Der
senate the deceased, who mounting the grave
IN HIndOo costume, reprOaches them for
buryinT him alive and fOrbids the unnecessary
sacrifice. \ HindOo woman who resolves to
die on her husbands altar abstans from food as
soon as her husband is dead. She chews betel
and invOkes without ceasng the god of her
husbands sect. When the fatal hour arrives
She adOrns herself with her jewels, puts on her
most costly attire, a. if she were going to a
festival. Her relatives and friends accompany
her to the music of drums and trumpets The
victim afIectiOnately embraces her friends and
relations, among whom she distributes her
Jewels and ornaments. They bless her and
entreat her prayers that they may have a like
fOrtltude. The widows generally meet death
with heroic firmness and cOnstancy. satisfied
that in thus barring themselves from conuoal
attachment they deliver their husbands from
the torfnentS OF the next world. no matter what
crimes they may have committed in this. Mr.. Hol-
we'll. who was one of the prisoners in the famous
Black Hole of Calcutta. tells of one HndoO wild
ow Who on being told the pain she must suffer,
put her finger into the fire and held 1t there for
a considerable time. after which she put fire on
the palm of her hand, laid incense upon
Ii ana fumigated the Brahmns who were pres
ent. Forbes, who spent many years in India
and who wrote Oriental Memoirs" relates the
case ofafemale whose husband had amply pro-
vided for her, and which is unusual among Hin
docs, made her entirely independent of her fam
lily. She persisted in her determination to ac-
company him to a better world. and suffered not
the tears of an aged mother and the cries of
three helpless infants to divert her from her
purpose. The funeral pyre was erected an i'm
mense concOurse of people of all ranks assem-
bled and a band Of music accompanied the
Brahinins, who superintendent the ceremony.
The bower of death. enwreathed with sacred
flowers. was erected over pile OF sandal wood
and spices. on which lay the body of the de-
ceased. After various ceremonies the music
ceased. and the crowd. in solemn silence,
awaited the arrival of the heOrine.
She approached. accompanied by her mother
and three beautiful children, richly attired, and
wearing the hymeneal crown an ornament pecu-
liar TO HindOO bride at her marriage After