—Poincelot.

July Twentieth

There was a time when the ideal condition coveted by women who craved unlimited freedom, was that of a widow with one child.

—Edward Stanton Martin.

July Twenty-first

Let no Mandalay in his effort to seize

The Widows Three, or just one if he please,

There are others, I know, quite Simla to these,

And the diff’rence not one man in Seven Seas.

—Widow.