The Forrest City times., 1912-06-28
WIDOWS LUNCHEON

NlHeNS It N HEUN.
 Would those husbands. tath9n, deep in the Atlantic. regret so much the iceberg which sent them to death n the great Titanic or lie easily be heath tie waves, c1lld they peer in. to tie Astor palace today and watch widows luncheon tlat oecared theres
 WiH other mi.lionaires, gazing apon this spectacle, hesitate a little when they buy wives as they buy pictures, seeking only beauty, or blue blood, or social position:
 That luncheon hts mark in ex- posing the minds and souls Of the oyer-rich. IL shows that excessive riches. just as excessive poverty. tends to crush the finer qualities that have been the pride of Christian races.
 Four widows gathered at the As tor palace on Fifth avenue 10 honor the captain of the Carpathia, the rescue ship which brought them to land when their husbands sank.
 Gratitude t9 the captain is lis das. To be made a subject Of social ex- p.aitatien leaves him without digui- " and robs him Of Lis right-if le Has 2 tefa.
 Sending an invitation 10 the cap tain. tHe widows a.>o sen notices 10 tte newspapers. so tAat their grips upon the r4ngs of tbe adder of social leadership might be frightened q tri1e Itieayes a great d5abt a 10 whether they really wanted b thank this Carp4taia captain feared that tAey were getting out of the spot. .iLte T publicity, bY which soeial position. as it's understood in tie E. etHafie req ms. is 5a1a5uea and Led.
 Szr5w f4r the pa~siag af loved zess i~oHe af tue marks tEat dis- lug #.sies .zsaaE.tE ffa4 ele aH5tez E1Fe ti.af can st5eteG te5ad tbe -fafs las hen t6g dream af paets. tte #isI.sst i4ape=af l#.8af4itfs tie sa.= aes. prize iu=az tas V9f4.
 #assi4cs , 59e tHu1 is .HHete la its understanding tHat reitl=4s sorrow. wealth p9yerla. eyeu death. edn add IT subtract tlom |, cempieteness. is the acme efa.f hap piuess.
 RQt such love never needs a press agent, l. never needs advertising after death IL never needs head lines in printers ink to perpetuate it.
 In thousands of cemeteries yester- day black dressed women carried li- laos to grassy mounds. These women need no widow luncheons' nor want them. Their tears tiowed from hearts that still felt sorrow but are filed with happy memories. They went quitely and alone 10 live again the years from that proud day when their hearts beat tumultuously at the altar 10 that other day when the universe seemed blank as they rode in black procession to spot that has since be- come haIiowed
 Grief that has it's roots in req l9ye is ever uuostentatious Itmay smile. but it does not blazon itself 10 tae world
 \ great wave of pity swept tHe country @Aen the world earned of the braee death of Astor. sala,ing Death gamely and tucsing away his girl-~ife in iifeboat. The world pitied when | read Of the sudden end ot etEer men who had occupied places ot euinenee and power in Ae world
 Let the pity flow again. Nan wAo has never had real love las never lived. The man who las never won the sympathy of one woman and won it s4 completely that Death is but a comma in the history of existence, has never tasted real happiness.
 And in such love. widows lun- eheons, with press agents and ad- vertising, have no part.-St. Paul Press.