Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — BOSTON HOLDS WIDOW RECORD. [ARTICLE]

BOSTON HOLDS WIDOW RECORD.

•tate Official Cellecta Statlatica—Their Let a Hard On*. A Boston State official who has been investigating the subject for Prof. Friedrich Prinzing of Paris has discovered that Boston has more widows, in proportion to its population, than any other city In America, even Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and-other large centers. The young widow, he says, is one of the most unfortunate of beings, and not at all the gay butterfly which popular fancy baa pictured. Prof. Prinzing has collected a remarkable group of statistics which show that poverty sorely oppresses the widow, and that she is more subject to insanity, consumption, conflict with the law, and death than her marriHi sister. All these woe* fall more heavily on the young widow. Dr. Priusing’s opinion Is that the State should make provision for the support of the widowed and their children, directly, \ instead of indirectly through hospitals and insane asylums. There are widgwi In every * y Wv IllTf IWWIIWf BQ . ft