And so, the frequency of second marriages of widows and widowers is no favorable symptom of the facility of founding a family.
In Timorlaut married men may not poll their hair for the same reason as in Ceram, but widowers and men on a journey may do so after offering a fowl or a pig in sacrifice.
M91 Seclusion of widows and widowers in the Philippines and New Guinea.
Widows and widowers were obliged to observe rules of a similar kind.
M90) Among the Shuswap of British Columbia widows and widowers in mourning are secluded and forbidden to touch their own head or body; the cups and cooking-vessels which they use may be used by no one else.
The Quakers encouraged widows and widowers to provide for children from a first spouse when remarrying.
Few widows or widowers lived with one of their children.
If widowers and widows would only mate with each other, instead of trespassing upon the hunting grounds of the unmarried!
Broadly speaking, widowers make better husbands than widows do wives.
Widowers and Widows [Illustration] Widowers and Widows Next to burglars, mice, and green worms, every normal girl fears a widow.
It is true that the widowers also in some cases subjected themselves to penance; but usually they made it very much easier for themselves than for the widows.
Under such circumstances it may appear strange that some widowers should commit suicide upon the death of a wife, as Seernan assures us they do (193).
Widows and widowers were reminded not to marry again too swiftly; 'not to let their minds out soon to another husband or wife;' and kinship was to be carefully regarded in thinking of wedding.
I expect you will not be quite satisfied until you get the position of matron in some huge asylum for widows and orphans, with a few widowers thrown in for variety.
In money matters they are, more or less; possibly widowers should be excepted.
Ah, then, you are finding the widowers most congenial.
I will accompany her myself; she might get entangled with widowers on her next trip.
Widowers go into society at a much earlier date than widows, it being a received rule that all gentlemen in mourning for relatives go into society very much sooner than ladies.
Widowers wear mourning for their wives two years in England; here only one year.
Seven thousand three hundred and eighty dauntless females had found the death they coveted, and over a thousand disconsolate widowers bewailed their fate loudly in the temple courtyards.
It was the custom for those bereaved widowers to mourn in public for their departed spouses, while they prayed that their sins might be overbalanced by their good deeds, in the scales of the gods.
Among all the tribes infanticide has been practiced to some extent, but probably only females or children of widows or widowers have been murdered in this way, the latter on account of the difficulty of providing for them.
I have no desire to exert it," replied Gertrude; "there are undoubtedly men in want of housekeepers, and plenty of widowers in want of nurses for their children.
Daffy, don't it make you laugh to see what a fuss widowers make trying to grieve for their wives?
These first entries are of the marriage, or rather marriages, of two widowers and two widows--X.
Widowers indulge in second marriages three or four times as often as widows.
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