Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Widows of Generals. [ARTICLE]

Widows of Generals.

Several widows of great generals residing in New York lead queer lives and do droll things. One of this class makes her home in a down town hotel, and, to save trouble and expense as well as linen, does part of her own laundry work. Admiring residents in the neighborhood always know the location of her room by the handkerchiefs, Cjllars and cuffs that cling to the window pane early in the morning. No one ever sees the linen set hung on the glass or peeled off “bone dry,” but it is there every morning that the distinguished lady is in town. A second soldier widow is a oussy-cat sympathizer. Any hot night that she happens to be in town she may be seen strolling along the deserted streets of that section of the city made famous by F. Hopkinson Smith and A. Janvier with a gardenpot of water in one hand and a stock of paper cups in the other, calling in soft, persuasive tones. “Here, pussy, pussy, pussy." The third grand dame of singular proclivities has an

owlish fancy for quiet gloom. She lives alone, although abundantly blessed with kith and kin, and the rooms in her stately house are in such perpetual low light that the visitor finds it necessary to advance with his or her hands outstretched. She is never without diamond ornaments, although it is said on authority of personal observation that she spends half her life in her dining room, sitting in her stockings, reading the daily papers.—Troy Times.