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Show A TILL-TAPPEB, Joseph. Letter was in New York the other day. He had luncheon at a fashionable fash-ionable restaurant. During the luncheon the subject of widows arose, and on this interesting topic many original ideas were ex-pressed. ex-pressed. Mr. Letter said: Some widows are to be pitied; others, oth-ers, again, are-to be felicitated. My father fa-ther used to describe a widow of the latter sort. ' She lived In Maryland; she kept a little village store. Her husband was a worthless fellow. He never worked, and he drank a great deal. A worthless fel-. low, I repeat, but, nevertheless when he died suddenly, many persons made calls of sympathy and condolence on the widow. "My father did not call, but one day, slopping at the store to buy some trifle or other, he thought it was no more than right to say in a feeling tone: " "You must 1 miss your husband a great deal,' madam V " "Well, sir,' said the widow. 'it does set m strange to come into the shop and And iomething In the tilL' " |