Daily globe., 1883-08-03
HOW - WIDOW MoURNED.

Older.
She was handsome and wealthy
young widow, and had just lost her his,
band. Full of grief over the loss of her
beloved one, she sought dealer in mon
uments, friend of the dear departed.
Seeing the sympathetic face of her
husbands friend, the tears burst afresh
from her eyes as she greeted him.
+" You have heard it then; George is
gone."
Yes, he had heard it.
"And now," said she, "I want 10 get
a monument, the finest and most i'm
posing monument that you can make. I
don't care for the expense. You have
them costing asmuch as $40, 900, do you
not?" she ventured.
Oh, yes, he could build q splendid
monument for that He would prepare
a design and submit it to her.
"You will have it ready soon, viii.
you not?" she pleaded. "This even
| ing?"
"No, not this evening"" he replied,
but he would hurry it up as fast as pos
| sible and bringit to her residence. Anlso
it was settled, and she went away very
grateful for the ready sympathy and
anxiously expectant for the design.
And then the monument man got out
an old design and had it transferred to
clean piece of paper, and in fifteen
minutes was ready for the widow, but of
course it wouldn't do to show up for a
week or SO. The long days dragged
out their weary length finally, and the
marble man, assuming an appropriately
funereal countenance, sought out the
widow and submitted his work. He
found her somewhat more reconciled to
her loss and little inclined to be crit
ical, but on the whole she was pleased
with the design.
"But," she said, 81 have been talk
ing over the matter with my sister, and
she thinks $4,000 ought to buy a very
nice monument. Couldn't you make one
like that for $5,O0O?,"
"No," responded he, "but I can
build quite handsome monument for
$4,000. Shall I make a design of one
for that fgure?"
eyes, I wish you would, please, and
will cometo your Office and examine it
in week or two."
{" I can make some alterations in these
plans and have it ready very soon" he
urged. Indeed, Icould bring 1t around
tomorrow just as well as not"
ooh, no; I won't trouble you to do
so. There is no particular hurry about
it, and will call upon you; it's my
turn, you know" and she smiled gra
ciously upon him as she bowed him out.
Well, what was poor monument
man to do? He could only wait, and he
did wait, busying himself meanwhile in
getting up elaborate and really beautiful
designs. One day he met the lady on
the street, dressed in the merest apology
for haf-mourning. He bowed obse-
quiously and informed her that the de-
sign was finished, and he thought would
not fail to be perfectly satisfactory.
"Oh," she said, "I have been SO busy,
don't you know with one thing and an
other, that had forgotten all about it.
Let me see, how much was that to
cost ?"
"Five thousand dollars"
"Oh, dear, really can't afford to paw
that much. Now, couldn't you "-this
very bewitchingly-" make a real nice
monument for about $500? I know YOU
can, and will come around and see YOU
about it real soon good-by,"
Then the monument man went to his
Office and told his grief to three-legged
lamb and stone angel.
Some time after this the charming
widow, with male frield, whom she
called "Charley, dropped in again.
"Do you know" she said, "Ifeel so
ashamed to think that I never came
around to look at your pretty designs.
Charley and I have concluded that those
great, costly ornaments are SO foolish,
after ones dead, you know. We think
it's wicked, don't we, Charley?" Charley
allowed that it was. "But," she con-
tinued, "those little white boards, such
as they put at the soldiers graves, Char
ley and think they are very nice. So
neat and unpretentious. Couldn't you
! make one Of them for me and put
Georges monogram on it? His initials
make slch a pretty monogram"
Then the monument mans cup was
full, and he spilled itover on them. He
told her that Charley could get an old
single and tack one of Georges busi-
ness cards on it.
Then she called him I" a horrid beast, .
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