Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-10
AN ORCHID AMONG
Women--That's What Bah Says
is the American Widow.
WHY A WIDOW MAKES A GOOD
Wife-She Knows Men Better-Great Men
Who Married Widows.
The New York Dog show-Traits of Diff
ferent Canies-Has the Dog Soul?
Bah willing to Go to the Dogs.
Story of Marie BashIZirtseR

NEW York, Feb. 2e, 1S92.-In the fun
niest farce that has struck New York,
there is one sentence which would, if the
roof were movable, take 1t on the house,
for the audience think it is so desperately,
diabolically amusing that they laugh until
they can't laugh any longer. This Is the
sentence: A young man masquerading as
a footman is talking to the servants, and
after they tell him how good and kind the
mistress is he says, "She must be a rara
avis. " The servants look at him aghast,
and eventually the lady's maid
says, with knowing shake OF her head,
"Oh, no, she amt; she's a widow" This
is what conyulses the house. And what
want to know is, why should widows al
ways be subject Tor merriment2 II you
will take the same trouble that l did, and
ask the men about it, you viii find that the
American widow, like the orchid, is re-
garded as the finest product of the nine
tenth century. Now, why shouldn't she
be}
TIE WIDOW AS WIFE.
Isn't there every reason in the world why
widow can make young man happier
than young girl can2 You see, she has
gone through it all. She knows the small
meannesses, the nagging tendencies, the
tiresome curiosity ana the tiny fault.find-
lug peculiar to mankind. She knows how
TO ignore all this, and TO blissfplly accept
all the great big virtues that thank the
how to cater TO his appetite, material and
mental; she knows how to make him
think as she does, and she doesn't adopt
the tactics OF Young girl for this. oh, no,
not by long manner of means. When
young girl doesn't agree with young man
she contradicts him. That's first blood for
him. A widow does nothing of the kind;
she agrees with him, and then she talks to
him; tells him Just how clever he is,
daintily brings forward her own view. sug-
gests to him that she knows that he has
been thinking that way all the time; that
he was only trying to see if she could guess
it, and hey, prestoi before he knows any
thing he has yeered around TO her opinion
and hasn't the remotest idea that he has
changed his mind.
SHE Is LOVING AND AMBITIOUS.
Then q wi dow has learned the delight of
quiet, and, although she likes to 60 out and
enjoy herself an evening alone with the
man she has married is a special pleasure
10 her. She is ambitious for him, and IN
terestedin all his pursuits. know widow
who said s he would pay $l0o,0o0 TO
have her nus band made governor
Of the state in which they lived;
she is presiding YER the guberpatorial
N ansion now Sh has hinted that she
viii give million 10 have him made presi-
dent OF the United States, and, as he is
Young man, aud q clever man, and million
Is good bit Of money! and money talks ex-
tenSively nova days, ] shouldn't be sur
prised 20 see her doing the gracious in the
White House yet
GREAT MEN WHO MARRIED WIDOWS.
When you put your small boy in knieker- |
hockers, and give a party in honor Of il, |
who Go you tell him TO imitatel Who do |
you hare on the table in pink, blue aud vel |
low ice cream9 The Father Of his Country |
Well, he married widow. II you happen |
to be an English woman, and member OF |
the Primrose League. then you say to him |
my son, be the great statesman Lord |
Beaconsfield was" Do you remember |
he was diplomatic enough TO |
marry q widowG OF course, it cam. be
claim ed that Adam married widow, but
why cast this stone at Adam3 The worli |
hadn't be come sufficiently cultured to have
widows in those days-they are the fruits |
Of civilizat ion. I am as earnest in taking |
up the cause OF the widow as 1 would Be in |
taking up that of the mother-in-law, for I
think jokes on either of them are il exces s.
yely bad taste. Avoman can stand every
thing else but bang madS ridiculous. on !