The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-01
YEARN1Na TO BE WIDOWS.
Many Girls Consider Pretty Mourning
Gowns Compensation for Bereave-
ment,
1nent.
From the Boston Globe.

Il rum lue OOSIOu GlODe.
"Do you know, 1 believe nine girls out
of ten sort of yearn to be widows Just
for the sake of wearing pretty black
dresses and other Weeds" said an &C
tress to a writer for the Globe. 81 am
not sure whether it is the costume in gen
erel or the neat little bonnet which most
appeals to the feminine heart, but | am
sure there is something positively ire
sitible about the costume. OF course
don't Think they would like to become
widows just for the sake of wearing
weeds but if they were to be bereft of
their lords they would find a very con-
siderable consolation in the fact that
their new mourning costumes We're just
too sweet. That's woman's vanity, sup
pose. You see women have made it their
business'in life to look nice for the mems
sake for so many ages that 1t is now
part of their nature, like love or anv
other passion, and even great grief can
not wholly eXtinguish the delight which
comes with the privilege of wearing a
costume which has hitherto been de-
barred.
you see, a young woman who is full of
spirits and of gay, vivacious tempera-
ment, finds in young widOWhOod a latitude
which cannot be found in either single
blessednoss or marital felicity As an
unmarried woman she must be very cir
cumspect, and lots of things must be left
undOne, not because there is any harm in
them, but because they are not in good
form. AS wife She must be still more
careful, because she has to steer her frail
bark between the ScYlla of her husbands
jealousy and the Charybdis of her neigh
boris gOSsiping tongue. Between the two
she is pretty well hampered, you may be-
hcVe. But when she becomes a widow
she is to certain extent privileged
There is no husband TO get wrathy, no
guardian to say her nay. She is as free
as a mountain bird, and if she be pretty
and merrily inclined, she is in much de
mand as a chaperon by girls who want to
have an evening or an afternoon picnic or
little yachting excursion without papa
and mamma in attendance.
somehow or other there is always a
particularly pleasing young man in the
party who is unattached, andof course he
finds the widow delightful company, and
she forgets all about being chaperon, so
everybody has Jolly time.
Some way, men seem to like them bet
ter than they DO young girls. They like
To talk to them ana grow Chummy, and
they seem to enter more quickly into a
feeling of comraderY with them than with
demure little maidens of limited expert
ence. l don't know whether it is because
the widows, having grown acquainted
with mems likes and whims THROUGH
their husbands, know just how to appeal
to their male admirers, or be ause men
ike TO talk TO women whose views of life
nave been brOadened by experience, and
who know a thing or two and are not
blinded by the cOnyentionalities of
life as are many guileless maid
ems. But it's surely for some
reason, for ] have seen a pretty young
widow have flock of desirable young men
in her train, while bright and beautiful
young girls were left with a paltry gal
liant, and not a very fetching one at that.
How girls under such circumstances hate
a captivating young widow. And how
they resolve to get even with the sex
when they become widows-if they ever
should. ! think male writers draw the
best widows. / should hate to play a
widow that a womrn had written. | am
quite sure there would be something
spiteful in it that l shouldn't like Women
can't help being spiteful with each other
when they can indulge themselves safely
as an author can"