“Nonsense,” snorted Dr. Peduncle, “didn’t I attend him myself in his last illness?”

—Life.

June Eleventh

Scarcely less to be feared by the prudent, is the species of this interesting animal, which is known as the domestic widow.

—Dorothy Dix.

June Twelfth

Little Clara (in an audible whisper)—“O nurse! I wish I had been born a widow instead of an orphan!”

—Harper’s Monthly

June Thirteenth

Young widows are always charming.