The Washington times., 1906-10-22
WHY WIDOWS HAVE THE
ADVANTAGE OVER GIRL s
The Reason for Their Irresistible Charm and FaS-
cinaton for Marriageabe Men

The charming widow, young, rich,
gay, is the freest woman alive.
She is much more free than any bach
elor girl To be found.
Freedom comes to the bachelor girl
nearly always when IL is too late 70
enjoy H.
While she is young she is necessarily
in bondage. and when her parents and
guardians leave her at liberty, old Lady
Grundy comes along and takes up the
reins and holds them pretty tight.
But widows are as thoroughly eman-
cipated from conventional bonds, which
restrict the free actions of a maid, as
she is from those which fetter a wife.
Only she herself knows what she has
lost and gained.
Her yoke may have CALLED her, but
she did not vince and only when il
was removed did she become fully con-
scious of how great had been the bur
den, from the sense OF Infinite relief
through her freedom.
The world perhaps never realized that
she has passed under the harrow
It ma even wonder at her cheerful
ness witt the dear departed only a year
dead Some viii say how sweety re-
signed she is. Others, what an un-
feeling wretch she is.
She is neither.
after having lived in bondage.
She does not want 10 marry again,
In fact. never intends 20. but this does
not necessarily mean that she Is indlG-
ferent To admiration, or Ihat she
doesn't care for men society
Being without serious intentions her
self she does not reflect that she may
POSSIBLY mislead and deceive others VINO
have no such cause 10 beware OF the
pleasant folly OF love and its results.
IN the exercise of her prerogauve as
d free woman, able 10 cultivate the
dearest friendship with men. she enIan-
gles many a poor fellows heart which
She never for a moment considered SER
iOusly.
IL is this freedom that makes her the
most dangerous Of all women 10 man
peace of mind. ,
The freedom that she has gone through
so much 10 gain she does not rashly
throw away.
Even when the day comes "hen she
gives IL up into the keeping or another
and for an Of her prOtestations II comes
frequently-the man who wins her may
congratulate himself on victory more
fattering 10 his vanity ana more COM
plete in it's surrender OF advantages
than he could have gained over any
other woman
No belle or bachelor maid could have
made such a sacrifice in her marriage
as did this widow of means and good
Joyous present and potential future In
bis hand
He win be a lucky man. too. if he
Shanages so well that he is never re-
preached for the sacridce-if his wife
never looks back TegretfulIy 10 the time
when she was WidOW-if there are no
longing glances forward TO possibilities
ahead, mingled with sighs at the diff
Guilty OF retracing q step when made.
There Is the widow, too. whose hus-
hand perhaps has been a man OF note.
a man of learning, of elevated station,
a political OF a philanthropic power.
She only knew the fretfulness. the
petty tyranny. the miserable smallness
at home of the man OF large repute
whom generations conspire to honor
and whose public life was a mark for
the future TO date by.
When he died the press wrote his eu-
logy and his elegy.
But his widow, when she nut on her
weeds. sang softly in her own heart a
Laudamus with a sigh of unutterable
relief.
To such a woman widowhoOd has no
sentimental regrets.
She has come into the possession of
the goods fer which perhaps she sold