Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — “Widow of the Late.” [ARTICLE]

“Widow of the Late.”

Apropos of the surprising reform in the first column of the Times (London), a reader of that journal asks me to call attention to the absurdity of describing widows—-as is usually done in that column—as “widow of the late so-and-so.” It certainly seems superfluous to mention the fact that a widow’s husband is dead, but I feel bound to add that I have known cases where there was room for doubt upon the point.— London Trutn.