Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15

formed by man, which is doubtless,
the reason that it is mentioned in
tie Bible as one of the meritorious
acts whose reward is heaven.
VIII it be the comfortable widow?
She owns her own home and has
a tidy little sum of insurance money
and sets before man the food that
softens his heart and inclines him
to matrimony. To drop in of an
evening and sit beside her we'll
swept hearth, and to perceive the
thousand deft touches with which
she knows how to make one COM
Portable makes a bachelor suddenly
feel as if he were an orphan in a
cold, cold world.
Here's a woman, he says to him
self, who would appreciate the bless
ing OF getting a Good husband, and
would know how to take care of
him. No more wrestling with wash
ladies. no more boarding house or
restaurant denominations of dinners.
Instead, n wife who has learned how
| to keep house on your predecessor
, God rest his soul-anG who is in
no danger of giving you dyspepsia
while she experiments with cooking
school recipes.
The comfortable widow locks like
taking out a paid-up policy on do
mestic bliss, and she can generally
get any settled, middie-aged man she
desires.
Will it be the diplomatic widow?
To her. man is an open book that
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upon His weaknesses as upon a harp
with a thousand strings. With her
remarriaGe is merely matter of
selection. She decides upon her
man, and he has no more chance of
escape than the mouse in the claws
of a cat.
She is past mistress in the gentle
art of spreading the salve. She
hangs upon the words of every man
who talks to her. She agrees with
his sentiments. She laughs at his
jokes. If he is strong for domes-
ITCHY, she tells h m how she dotes
on a kitchen range. If he is pious
she goes in for church work If he
she goes in for church wor. If he
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Eut always, and at all times, she
until she dopes a man up so with
flattery that all he wants to do is
TO curl up and lie on her hearth
rug and let her wipe her feet on
MIN.
Will it be the giddy widow
She is generally tall and slender
with golden hair, and she wears
black not 50 much in memory Of her
dear departed as because it throws
out the sheen of het hair ard the
whiteness of her shoulders. Her
weeds are distinctly frivolous, with
frills and wicked spangles, and she's
naughty, but she's nice.
Being a widow gives a woman
many privileges that no other wom-
an possesses. 1t eliminates the
chaperon who must be- dragged
around for the young girl, and the
husband who must be accounted to,
for the married woman. Also wild
ow may do many things that would
be little r;sQue for the young per-
son. Nobody expects her to blush
or be shocked. Thus she combines
the charms of the Cebutante with
the freedom of the married woman.
So it is small wonder that few men
escape when widows mark them for
their own.
OF course, besides these, there will
be at the dinner all the different va
rieties of the species-the musical
widow who charms a mans heart
out of his bosom with her singing;
the cooey widow who curls up like
a kitten on the sofa, and just waits
to be pctted; the widow who rouses
a mans sporting blood by vowing
that she will never. never marry
gain; the rich widow who can
make life so easy for her husband,
and the wistful poor one who needs
a man to take care of her.
Each will have her own particular
brand Of fascination, and the prob
LEM is Which one will get him?
For 1t is unthinkable that he
should escape alive!
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