Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — Measured Grief. [ARTICLE]

Measured Grief.

While on the subject of the distinguished dead, I aih reminded of a story concerning Gounod, the celebrated musician. Some twenty years ago the composer and his wife were paying a visit of condolence to a woman friend, who had just lost her husband. Mme. Gounod was very much affected, and wept copiously as she embraced her friend. The widow, on the contrary, bore up with admirable fortitude. When Gounod and bis wife had left the house, the musician turned to his and remonstrated with her for that excessive demonstration of sympathy, adding: “My dear, you should never be sadder than the widow herself.”'—London Globe.