“You say his wife’s a brunette? I thought he married a blonde.”

“He did, but she dyed.”

—Wrinkle.

July Second

A law by which a widow should not burn herself till she had conversed privately with a young man. Since that time not a single woman hath burned herself in Arabia.

—Voltaire.

July Third

To the diplomatic widow, man is simply an open book. She plays upon his weaknesses as upon a harp with a thousand strings.

—Dorothy Dix.

July Fourth