May Fourteenth

There are four hundred and fifty Revolutionary widows left. Here is a chance now for those men who pant for a wife of the good old days.

—Danbury News Man.

May Fifteenth

Never marry a widow unless her first husband was hanged.

—Proverb.

May Sixteenth

Widows secretly rejoice in the admiration of men, but indulge themselves in no further consequences.

—Addison.