WIDOWS
GRAVE AND
OTHERWISE

COMPILED BY CORA D. WILLMARTH
ILLUSTRATED BY A. F. WILLMARTH

COPYRIGHT, 1903
BY PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY

PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS, SAN FRANCISCO

Be to her virtues very kind;

Be to her faults a little blind.

—Prior.

January First

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

—Bruyere.