Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — WIDOWERS. [ARTICLE]

WIDOWERS.

It is a sad thing to be a widower. If a widower mopes around and won’t mingle in society and refuses to take part in any little innocent amusements the women say he is putting it all on for fear folks think his grief is not real. If he mourns for the conventional period and then begins to sit up and lake notice, the women say he is a callous brute and they pity the woman who is foolish enough to marry him. If he puts in all his spare time with his children they say it is too bad he doesn’t. pick out some motherly woman and marry her and give his children a real home. If he doesn't spend all his spare time with his children they say the poor little things are crueliy neglected and that’s what might be expected of a man, anyhow.—Life.