Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-24
ME ON MOURNING.
HE TELLS OF SOME OF THE USES IT
 MAY BE PUT TO.
Some Tun-TIlc Story of Fl Musician Who Took a Bath and Get Himself Disiiked.
[copyright, 1894, by Edgar W. Nye.l

[Copyright, 1894, by Edgar w. Nyel
 It is very pleasant to know that strong effort is being made to secure, through the efforts of the postmaster general, a stamp for letter postage, to be known as a mourning stamp, to be used on mourning stationery and to harmon ize with the grief supposed to be con tained in the letter itself.
 The possibilities of mourning have nev- CT yet been fully worked out by any means We have mourning livery for our coachmen and mourning rosettes and harness for the horses, and even though the team should kick up and feel gay or the coachman get his skates on. to use an alcoholic term, it is a joy and a comfort to know that they have black rosettes, etc., on them, and that they eX- formally mourn liko everything.
 \ postage stamp with q broad black border and representing 8 widow with long black crape veil, and other black clothing from the skin out, and leaning over a marble slab, ;t large weeping will low forming tho background, a pool of tears in the foreground rejecting the sad face of the bereaved, while the sec ond husband may be seen concealed be- hind the willow (though of course this last will be hard to arrange successfully. would be good design for widows stamp. The wilowor could have one representing himself in the act of tearing up the green grass in the cemetery or oiIing revolver to be ready for suicidal purposes, while looking surreptitiously through the picket fence at female col lege out for q walk.
 Tho grc2t field of mourning evidences has as yet hardly been touched. We have mourning clothing, jewelry, livery and harness, but even such glorious possibility a$ mourning ice cream, pie and wateImol0ns has never been given #2.y attention. l have even known black haired widows to suddenly become golden haired ill the midst of their mourning and put milk in their cafe nCir.
 Tine tlmo is coming when srch things will be termed vulgar.
 Why should we show 0t;cr evidences or mourninst and not paint our houses black? Why doesn't some onterprising florist grow q variety of black flowers? Why not 1.:..-.' .'.1 lark, and the thrush, and the b0bclinll, and make them shut up their glad songs? Why should the --crocn grass grow and the brook babhle 1 cn in the GolG,u sun ;lH} enjoy itself:
 There ought to be q way by which all nature should be made to stop and pay attention to our grief. Then it could open ID a&,:in when tLe period of our
 mourning k over. provided @omo ono { else had not been hCreavcd in the mean time.
 ! \ physician Ills ne that he has in vented recently " sort of iron tinotre, i to be used iA r3ses ot extreme grief,
 which tu11', ,.o whole inside of the i mourncr 'uyG This is surely q most refined n,jA:,l of swing expression to i sorrow.
 Sometimes eG roa.-c, the external and visible signs of ll.>lrning Go rot brt"ay'
 q bursting hcary. I,.- that is neither here nor there.
 l ! just received s deeply bordcred let ter. with bl&cl, seal of shocmal,cr'a
 wax on the back, and I must admit that