The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-14
KING
GAY
widows
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81 BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a fortune 1oT cur IAN
might be well for you TO loos
bout yot1 Bit. and study, the widows
aid l.ais sou encounter.
here are few sons and faushters
are really benefited Dy the for
s5tunes left them by hard-worlSins faith
leads to discocd and, Illwiil among,
Il t.eirs;; and the FORUM e accumulated
ind lstry5 dissipated. in extra,.
aganss 5ssS ~
Not one man in one thousand is
treat; enough to derive benefit from
money ne does not earn
hen behold the widows OF rich
mem 55s-5ss.
ever tata and You may see them
past middle:aag and worn with the
cares Of helping accumulate the for
time they We're never allowed to en-
in I'll death called the Eolder of
the purse to the lang where banks
fare not known and coupons are not
alned. And now behold the result!
Here issonea type Of thousands
sLiltf say GU,
land stifed a Womans natural longing
for pleasure, social life and becoming
apparel. She married an enterprising
zoung man es:rlv in life, and together
4 they established a home
Shesz helped him save ana acc,lznu-
$Iatea but while ne found recreation
in business journeys and in coming ir
contactSwith bright men at clubs and
oliticaI dinners, his wife plodded
along a mcnotonous domestic career,
and rarely saw beyond the limits of
her cative to8 n.
ss She Ionged for a yearly outing. but
/: Was assured they3could not afford it.
The husband explained his desire to
provide for their old age, and assured
his wife that a competence was pref
iourn at Saratoga or winter in the
8 south thirty rive or forty
When the husband died in his late
8ssiSties$ and left a irish widow, she pro-
ceeded to do the things she had al
swaysE Iorged to do, despite tho fact Of
ag years
She bought beautiful gowns, which
would have been becoming twenty
years earlier, and she arrayed her
self in Jewels, silks and laces, and sal
He'd forth to see the world.
She finds many others like unto
herself wherever she goes. So prev
aIentEis her type that they might be
called widows of the aftermath. They
( are reaping the late harvest and win
moving the sheaves they missed in the
Of ara
as full @of sentiment and romance as
"a girl in her teens, and far more frank
the exhibition of it.
80 # they seem ridiculous to the men
& who watch and criticize wonlan,s con
duct would it not be well for these
u critical men to pause and ask them
selves whether they are preparing the
Way for other widows OF the same
B tgpee
Are yoa, sir, deny ing your wife the
recreation and the apparel you can
well afford to- Sbestow, in order that
you 7llay leave her q fortune when
you die Il you are. be assured it will
s. be spent in fine clothes, travel and
amusement, not in monument to
YOU.
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come "a thing of haIfforgotten youth,
and If you expect your wife to plod
along with a silent understanding of
your regard and appreciation of her
charms and worth, lie assured she Will
q seek for sentiment in younger men
when you are turned TO dust.
Take your ctoice-give your Wife a
s happy time while you are alive. take
her on a journey and treat her like n
and know that she will miss you
b and love you if yor pass from earth
before her, or hoard up your money
and your affections and leave her a
fortune to squander IN forgetting you.
is The undemonstratet and miser-
" husband who makes the gay.
L spendthEtift widow.
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