Show i I il SAYINGS OF MRS SOLOMON I Verily verily verify saith the Cynic why doth loth a widow yearn to marry again For lo 10 who is so popular and so blessed as a pretty widow in second- second mourning Behold she all the honor and glory of matrimony with none of Its sorrows and discomforts She is admired of all men and the delight of callow youths s She goeth where she listeth and re- re when she she when she and when she She he in bed and at a n. different place and with a T. different different dif dlf- dif dif- I ferent man every day of her hei life if she so Moreover she in her heart that when she Rhe a it s second cond time all this shall end She men and Is wise to all their little ways She that her second husband husband hus hus- band hand even as her first husband shall kick the rugs out of place and track mud through the halls halIs She that he will smoke up the curtains and throw lighted matches out of or the the- window that he ho will fill her hei pin trays with cigar ashes and knock out his pipe upon her best mahogany and that he will keep the cook cool wavering between the verge of nervous ous prostration and the verge of departure and the dinner waiting until it is cold She that he will be fussy at breakfast and grow sleepy after dinner and that he ho shall never ob observe observe ob- ob serve her hat nor her frocks save Rave when they offend his eye or there Is Isa isa isa a button missing Yea Tea verily she that on her wedding day she ahe will merely ex exchange exchange exchange ex- ex change the attentions of all men for forthe forthe forthe I the inattention of one and the plaudits of the multitude for the criticism of one Wherefore e then cloth doth she desire to marry again But I say unto thee lhee wait watt I Be not hasty in thy judgment For or a widow and her treed freedom om are not parted for nothing Behold she all these things and and she likewise that It is v vastly sUy easier casler to sit up and wait walt for forone forone forone one man to come home than to sit up and wait walt for a lot of men to go home She that it is Infinitely more comforting to know where and with whom thou dine every evening eve eve- ping ning than to have three invitations to I dinner upon one evening and none at atall atall atall all the next evening She that It is more thrilling to have a man adore thee one moment and scold thee in the next than to have a bore sit about and pay thee conventional compliments and feed thee canned flattery forever Moreover she to have somebody to advise her to do the things which she hath already made up her mind to doShe do She somebody to hook her frocks and powder the back of her neck when she an evening gown She for somebody to worry about and to sacrifice herself forShe for She to hear some sort of noise around the house besides the thel ticking of the clock She for somebody to complain to when she hath bath a It headache for somebody to mother somebody to scold and somebody to remodel accord according according ac ac- cord cording Ins Ins- to her IIer own ovin ideas Veri Verily verily she somebody somebody somebody some some- I body to belong to her even as she j her own umbrella and her own I books Instead of borrowed ones her own piano rather than a rented one and her own garden rather than the privilege of walking in Central park And where shall she find all these I comforts save in a husband h. h |