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Show OLD WIDOWER IN A QUANDARY. The Sun has received the following reo,uest. "I)enr Bin Will ou nnd your renders glvo mo sour opinion which makes tho best stepmother nnd promises most happiness to a vvldoavcr marrslng ngnln n widow or an unmarried woman? I kinder lenn townrd tho widow nnd believe, be-lieve, 'tis logic. Yours. WIDOWBll." Our correspondent evidently Imagines thnt It Is nnly necessary for him In mike cholco mining various nppllrnnta for the placo of stepmother to Ids children. chil-dren. Perhaps ho la fooling himself. l)ut wo shall let that pass, for tho question ho asks Is n serious and most Important one. A widower feels himself him-self Imrolled to mniry ngnln, in order tn provide for the care nnd welfare of hln children. It Is always consideration considera-tion fnr tho children that Induces him to muke tho second venture. In malrl-mons'. malrl-mons'. It Is ilka n man going to tho nlrmit or liko a veeimin spending tho summer In tho country. It Is done on uccount of the children. Mr. Tony Weller, who mnrrled il widow and found when too Into that ho had put his font In It, most unjustly denounced all widows because his particular par-ticular widow wan nn unplcnwint Int. Ilo ndmonlshed his son Knmuel tn ho-waro ho-waro of them, "for inoro vldowa gets mnrrled thun slnglo vlmmln." It Is undoubtedly true lhat a widow, as n rule, makes a better business of getting get-ting married than ono who hus had no experlenee Bhe linn had prnctlco In dealing with men nnd does not wnsto her tlmo In foolishness There was Ab. Igall, tho widow of IN'abal, tho Carmelite. Carmel-ite. The very minute that David heard she wus n widow he dispatched ono of his soung men with nn offer of his bond In marriage. As soon nn tho Widow Abigail got the messige, what did she do? "And Ablg ill hnsted nnd iirnso and rodo upon nn ass with llvo damsels of hers that went after her, and she went nfler the meinenger of David and became his wife" Hho did not loso n milium. If Abigail hid bun a slnt,le woman Instead of n widow sho would have piobably lost the opportunity. op-portunity. Her llrst remnrk would havo brenl 'Oh, this Is so Hidden!" 'I hen sho would havo Insisted upon seeing David llrst nnd promising thnt sho would try to leain In lovo him, or nsk him for tlmo to consider, or have engaged In other rennuttlsh ilevlrea If Abigail had done thla tho chances nre Unit David, who wns a very busy man those days, would have moved on and married Ablnoam nf Jezrecl, and Abigail Abi-gail would have been In tho soup. Hut Ablpill was a widow, "and Abigail haste ." Then consider how the Widow Itulh landed old lion It she had been a sweet girl graduate, Just fresh fiom college, she never wnuld have secured that rich and somewhat convivial old All of theso things go to show that If a widow hai marked our correspond ent for her own he might as well go for tho license and, like Job, "inuau Iho widow 'ii heart to sing for Joy" It has never been ejulto elenr why Rt, I'eter wns so nverse lo soung widows. wid-ows. He said they had damnation nnd thnt they learn to bo Idle, wandering about from house to house, nnd not only Idle, but tattlers nud also buiy-bodles, buiy-bodles, speaking thlncn which they ought not. This certainly Is strange language from nn old bachelor who knew all about Hillli and Ablg ill and various other discreet and e ornery Soung widows whose vvordi were llko npples of gold In picture! of silver, heeaune they were litis spoken Hut our correspondent must not conclude con-clude from tho example of Huth nnd Abigail that widows uro the mils nlco women or the only good stepmothers Hven there two excellent ladles, llko many before them, had once been single sin-gle themselves, howhelt they had been chastened by experience, nnd In the rntc nf Abigail at least, by advernlty Her llrst husband was a churl, a son of llellal. and then he got disgracefully drunk. What, then, la the cnneluslon of the whole matter? Which makes iho best stepmother for ehlldren nnd wife for a widower? Ihls In n hard question, ques-tion, and who shall answer It? Hut this far wo can go There nre somo widows who will bo better In theso lelatlons than somo maidens, nnd thero uro some maidens better than some widows. As to the claim of our correspondent corre-spondent that It Is "logic" to marry n widow, wo must confess that we cannot discover nny relation between logic and widows nr between login and any other woman Ilaltlmore Hun |