Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-29

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sIn Arthur Murph i comedy OF THE
Way to Keep Him 3 the thor bestowed
great pains on the character ol Widow
Bellmonr, part well ealcu TO set
off the finenesse and graces Of spirited
and accomplished actress. She Is not
decidedly d lady OF fashion nor altogeth-
er q woman Of sentiment; yet she has
her gay fits and her grave ones, and
either trifes or declaims, as opportuni-
ty offers and the humor seizes her. She
has a. much coquetry as justifes q lib
ertine like Lonemore and q cox
comb like Sir Brilliant Fashion
in making their attacks upon
her. II have been 4 married, !" she
says, land am little in the secret
70 win heart is easy; to keep it the
difficulty. In the sBeaux Stratagem.'
by George Farquahr, q most charming
widow, all charity, appears, Lady Boun-
tiful. Her husband, Sir Charles, left
her worth 81 900 year, and / believe
she lays out one half ont in charitable
uses for the good of her neighbors,
She cures rheumatism and broken skins
in men; sickness, the kings evil, chin
cough and chilblains in children. In
short, she has cured more people in and
about Litchtield within ten years than
| the doctors have killed in twenty, and
''that'sa bold word" In the play of the
S"Two Orphans" Widow Frochard is
leading character, and in Mckee Ran
kin's 'Danites" Mrs. Rankin has broken
up two companies, all on account of the
widow of the piece. In THE Almighty
Dollar" Mrs. Gilfory dashes all over
Europe, second Mrs. Malaprop, as a
gay widow Getchen in Grip Van Win
kle" was punished for treating a good
husband i'll by getting a tartar who beat
her to death. In ''Lady OF Lyons" Colo
mel DeMas says his profession is to
make widows, not wives, and
Widow Melnotte exclaims: sfThere is
no divorce between mother and son!"
a sentiment peculiarly appropriate in
this age of divorce. In GIANT Heart
Meier Won Fair Lady, "by I. r. blanche,
which Alice Dnnning Lingard and
Madam Vestris shone in, the Duchess
de Torenueva, though offered the crown
of Spain, prefers young lieutenant Of
o'erweening impudence and noble blood
Guy Gomez. In Wycherly's Glove
in Wood" Lady Flippant appears as
an affected widow in distress for hus-
band, though she is ever ready to de-
claim against marriage; yet she says to
Mrs. Joyner, who keeps a matrimonial
brokers' Office, Ills we'll known no wom-
an breathing could use more industry
to get husband than T have" In
''The Plaindealer" Widow Blackacre is
petulant and litigious, and in every way
disagreeable. Shakespeare makes fire.
ard ILL.,. Widow Anne is wooed by the
ambitious Duke of Gloster in the funer-
al procession, where the memorable
lines occur:
s'Was ever woman in this humor wooed,
Was ever woman in this hu1nor won"
Benedict, "In Much Ado About Moth
ing" tells Beatrice: eff man do not
erectin this age his own tomb ere he
dies, he shall live no longer in monu-
ment than the bells ring and the widow
weeps," and in ''Hamlet," the Player
Queen in pledging fidelity to her iege
lord expresses just the opposite view,
and says: "Both here and hence pursue
me, lasting strife if once widow ever
be q wife," In Tanning of the
Shrew," Tranie the servant to Lucentio,
says; eff faith he'll have lusty widow
now that shall be wooed and won in q
! day" And Lucentio, in bidding the
guests to feast at his house, says: And
then Hortensio with the loving widow,
| IT, aIol1
Macduff exclaims in dialogue with NAL
colin in the kings palace: Each new
moon new widows. howl; new orphans
! cry, new SORROWS strike Heaven on the
face" In 'Henry WILL" when bluff
King Hal is putting aside his wife, SUI
folk says: katharine no more be called
queen, but princess dowager and widow
to King Arthur ~ ;.}'
Who that has not laughed over the
various dilemmas the song writer's have
| placed widows in? Who can not almost
set before him that typical Irish Widow
Machree, and wish that her ardent lover
succeeded in his wooing? His argument
is irresistible:
'To be poking the fire all alone is sin,
Och hone Widow Machree
Sure the shovel and tongs
To each other belongs,
And the kettle sings songs
!. Full of family glee
While alone with your cup
Like hermit you sup
Och hone! Widow Machree."
The pathetic story of Widow Ma
lone, the lovely widow of Athlone, who
broke all hearts, ,+.s
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To the clerks Of the crown, ~ -.
All were counting the Widow Malone"
All the lovers were too bashfu1. ;
/ - 's"Iin one Mr. o Brien, OF Clare.
/ = i-2, 1 sss /, How quarrel
70 Put his arm around her waist, '".E
Gave ten kisses. at Taste.
|. col" says he, 'syou're my Mollie Malone!"
! And the moral: e. <. II > w. i. -
/ stIf for widows You sigh - -
Learn to kiss, not to sigh,
! = For they're all like sweet Mistress
- Malone" :.@f% = n l. N.
Mrs.. Florence, won great applause
singing Widow Bedott," who ,defed
the young men to come after her with a
catch me if you can, and her quaint
eulogies of Deacon Bedott." -
q Who never jawed in all his life, !. = "
Z Henever was unkind; e., IT, ~ !.
And though I say, that was his wife, 4
H Such men you seldom find" - /
A queer case, and one that should
| serve as q 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 devo-
| ton is rarely seen outside of India,
where the widows burn themselves upon
their husbands funeral pyre. Died
last week iii King street, Ormontown, a
lady Of property, q little above 30, who,
though in apparent bodily health, has