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 an-ever increasing current—so long will family stains be multiplied—so long will a widow's agony blaze on in fiercer flames."

From the experience of married life we must conscientiously admit that women nave as much liking for married life as men. Row, if widowers marry so soon there is no reason why widows should remain unmarried. When widowers, not only knee-deep but even neck-deep in their funeral pyre, go in for remarriage it is all the more naturally necessary that the sooner the monstrous custom, which stands in the way of the remarriage of young childless widows, is done away with the better. For in the one case the manifestation of illicit felicity, or sin you may call it, may remain hidden, but in the other case nature would abhor, in a majority of instances, such a concealment.

In order to force the widows to their miserable lot they are often lulled with