Box Elder News Journal | 1904-06-09 | Page 3 | The "Grass Widow"

the grass widow the origin of the term grass id ow said bald a la Is puzzling some say it came from tile the french that it 11 was originally grace widow that Is widow by grace or courtesy others say it derives from the old english curtoni ot of a mans hanging out a broom when his wife m lie was away over i 1 ight to hang out the broom was a common phrase wilen when the thing thine was done the meaning wa was a that the house bouse had been swept clear clea I 1 ol of thu tho cifes pie and the b husbands US mends lends ti were to visit him slid and do as aa they pleased in time instead ot of hanging banging out a broom the husband came to hang out only a bunch of grass brass thus he grew to be called a grass widower and his big wife a grass widow phi philadelphia La delphis record