Show l I Should Wi Widows B BT M CK Be e Labeled iJ t If Should husbands wear wedding f I rings 1 Is a question that Is frequently debated 1 in the tho correspondence cori columns column ot of the tho rc s and undoubtedly tho topic in ill nn an interesting and debatable one or though there would seem eem to be he many good reasons rc why h a married man maii r should proclaim his estate to the worM world ant and no reabon wh why v ho I But so zw far as I know none nono has lias yet k- k publicly advocated what appears to mo moto jJ to bo an even more necessary social f Innovation namely that wl widows ow should E hear heur some distinguishing mark marlc of or their 4 forlorn condition Of or course coursol in the carly early da days 8 of or her I widowhood the thc poor pOOl woman of ot whom I 1 have o no wish to make fun docs does an announce In- In her tild lot to all nfl und and sundry S And mi for long Ions after aHer the weeds have been Leon put hut aside aIde fh Mho will wear colors which t S to tho seeing feminine eye CC speak as as plain as words of her widowhood But what docs does the average o man mall I c- c of ot divinity met at dance dinner din din- i ner nel at home or ot hotel hole reck reel of or the tho 4 fact that tho the said divinity Is In IL n dream I in mau u or gray ra or black and white while vt Nothing sir absolutely nothing I lIe He perceives h hey her r wedding ring and I l S concludes that eho IB is a man married man led woman oman t with whom it will be quite safe af to in indulge In I In a u little mild flirtation Too Ton Toolate v late he lie learns that she IH Is a i widow Ido and anda a widow bent on m irr ing II 0 o. o again That sir sir 11 Is II lh the class r I sing Tho The fascinating a I widow who has ha forgotten or stifled her herS S 4 woos and Is la looking out for No Ko o. o 2 I I c not dwell up upon the tho fatal i Oh charm n of r f the widow of the said Raid Mr h Tony Vell Weller r. r F the accumulated wisdom of 1 mankind lu In r-e r regard r 1 to love affair l it to say that If Ie a Il widow wido of or S- S average c attractions means to marry a n. man his only chance in la to drown himself himS him him- S self or to start Immediately for COr tho the north Porth pole The rhe former however la is latho tho the uti only eel certain method of or evasion o S But Hut tho the whole point Is Ie that as us a 0 rule tho llio victim has ha no chance hanco of escape Ho Ito is fatally ensnared boS bo- bo S fore lore he ho knows known where he Ja In A I of dances a a. n teto teto In a 0 coay cosy corm cor- cor m cr r a hort railway Journey alone and it if tho ho widow knows her business I i and aud and which of ot them doesn't doesn't within I I a few tew the once gay and II I bachelor Is at tho altar allar f And Antl all because he had no nu warning I L' L l In the first t Instance that thaL aho sho was a ar r j widow If H ho ha had hind known on und ansi If Ir ho lie 10 t I era ucro a a. man ho would have havo S fled from the dance he would have made huy o of the tha cony corner lao ho would have hurled himself out of or tho the train t 1 window I j I do to not plead only onh tha thu cause causo of ot th the j marriageable man bachelor or widower wid wid- o ower wor every cry unmarried woman should support my lily What chance has half t the tho he maid against lie tho widow None s bli Ir absolutely none The former must give Jho the man warning that silo Is unattached un Un- un unattached a attached the latter hatter need not and frequently fre fre- q do ciu dues tJ not nol until the victim Is re-I re In In- In c in the lie coils i I submit thou then that in Sn fairness to tomen men aToll in lu fairness to 10 unmarried women I I widows should I bo be l' l distinctively and un- un 0 labelled as such Savage abe races usually oblige their widows to themselves oH IJ by slitting slitting slit slit- I t ting ing their noses or pulling out nut all their t teeth or or blue or 01 In some way WRY l ing ag their thuir persons 1 I ilo iho not of ot course advocate such extreme Ine inea measures ure UH as these hut but still widows might be 10 obliged to w wear ar a small black patch over o the tho loft left eyebrow eyebrow eye eye- brow or ur on some other conspicuous spot o Or again alln tho they might be le required v to wear a n. lint hat of distinctive o shape The former course however Is open Oln to the that thal patches latches are arc removable Iho tho latter atter- to the still more moro forcible ic- ic that if the hat hint or head dross Iress were unbecoming no widow would wear it H. while If it It were becoming ever every woman would want to ho bo seen In IU IL But surely surch something could bo ho done lono with tho the wt wedding ring or with a IL 1110 special lO- lO cial rl ring rini 11 1 The Tho former might bo worn wornon wornon on un another nn linger er or hay have u IL black pearl heart 01 or black diamond set Into Inlo It It or or better er e every cry widow should be compelled to tu wear on the tile little nn linger huger cr of her right hand a n sliver silver band bant This would be he her I r readily aun distinguishable from front other I tIJI rings H. H and In lit lib Its color would prettily symbolize the wearers wearer's widowed con con- Something too should ho lie done to tomake tomake make andie widows J at first sight eight the number of or their progeny but I have no Taco space to 1010 KO go Into this subsidiary re reform re- re form form None tho the lets lees something of or time the kind IH lx urgently required A short while since a I young friend oC or mine married tl a a. widow und and nd on an time the return from front the hono honeymoon ho he was rather t to lo I bo lie greeted b by the tho of tr whose ho lie ha had not nol lr previously heard and like 0 tho time little girl In the poem I they were wele sove seven soven |