Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — WIDOWS [ARTICLE]

WIDOWS

Statistics show that widows are far more attractive to men than are the young girls who have never taken matrimonial vows. AU sorts of explanations are offered, but a woman who has closely observed the facts in many cases says that the explanation is most obvious and simple. A man is not long captivated by an inexperienced girl, and, however beautiful and charming she may be, the conversation never takes that intelligent and closely sympathetic turn that is natural to a man when he is talking to a woman who has seen more of life and knows men as they are. The widow is more anxious to please than to be pleased, and a man can stand the most copious drafts of adulation; in fact, he can be intoxicated by the widow’s subtle glances, and in such an intoxication he revels with a smile of content. The widow caters to his whims. She is too wise to argue with him. She knows that arguments are the crypts of friendship and the everlasting doom of love. She understands that when a man leaves his place of business, he wishes to leave there all cares and perplexities. Consequently she does not try to force her opinions on him; but if he cares to talk ot. them, she is capable of understanding the problems that make up a life of a man of business affairs. The well bred widow is always gracious. She ihay or may not care to marry again, but, having grown accustomed to a husband's comradeship, she enjoys the society of other men, and in that enjoyment lies one of the great secrets of her attractiveness to a lonely man. Her graciousness is charmingly apparent when greeting her friends.