—Widow.
September Seventeenth
A woman enjoys two days of happiness on earth: when she takes a husband and when she buries him.
—Anonymous.
September Eighteenth
“Widows are witches, don’t you think?”
September Nineteenth
Widow Black—“Whad meks you fink he’s gwine to propose at last?”
Widow Grey—“Kase I kin tell from his hungry looks and his seediness dat he cain’t suppo’t hisself much longer.”
—Harper’s Bazar.