The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-02-14
FUN THAT PAID.
How a Massachusetts Girl Got an Iowa Hus-
band,

Springfield Mass Corr. Boston Herald .
A sewing girl in this city has had
"a romantic experience which is
worth the telling. Several months
ago Il man at Dubuque, Ia, adver-
tised in an eastern Massachusetts
paper for il wife. Among "a swarm
Of answers which he received were
two from two girls in this city, who
replied just for the fun Of the thing.
One Of them represented herself as
a young widow, and her lively &c.
count of herSt f and her circum
stances was very largely fictitious,
especially that which told (verl
incidentally, as if it was of no con
Sequence) Of the snug sum Of money
left her by the dear departed. She
never expected to hear of the matter
again, but that vas the one letter
out of all the advertiser received
which struck his fancy. He wrote
to the supposed "widow" (who, in
tact, had never been married, ana
who was then earning her living
with her needle); photographs were
exchanged, the letters grew more
and more atiectiOnate, until the
young woman, realizing the atfec-
ton was lie longer "A joke, wrote to
her new-tOund admirer and told
him frankly Of her humble clrcum
stances.
or course lie admired her all the
more, and at last he came from
Dubuque to this city to claim her
for his bride. Instead of the man
~ sleek and inteIlisent-looking and
manly individual whom she had
exl ected from his letter and his
Photograph, what was her vexation
to see Il person Of decidedly secdy
appearances, wearing an Old SLOUGH
hat, and appearing altogether I'M
attractive. Wen, she refused him,
and he, Gliding her bitterly for so
doing after all the pains he had
taken to win her, returned alone to
Iowa. suppose he hadn't LETT the
house before she was sorry-Such
is the flexible character of female
atfection-and it is certainly true
that she WAS very sorry, indeed,
before he had put a thousand miles
between them. He wrote no more,
out the distressed young woman
wrote, or got friends to write, to
The pastor of the church he attend
ed and to various persons in Du-
buque, to find out what sort of
man this was-Som ething she ought
to have thought OF in the first place.
The replies were uniformly compii.
mentary, aud every one only in
creased her regret that she, a poor
girl, had refused II good
match"
Never word came from him,
aud at last she swallowed her pride,
Ieopened the correspondence her.
self, and told him how she had mis-
judged him and how sorry she was
That she had. Promptly came a
reply, from which she dis
covered that when he visited her
lere he had Intentionally made
himself as u~nattractive rs possible,
rom a romantic notiom that she
10 take him for what be was
md not for what he wore. OF course
hey were married, and the poor
girl has for her husband
of the leading citizens of u,
and for IA home one of the
ineSt mansions i'll Dubuque. This
rae story ought to have IA moral
It the negative sOrt-namely, that
Dung girls are not to infer f ON it
hat 1t is safe for them to answer
Matrimonial advertisements, for,
here one case of this SORT has,
Ike this, a happy issue, there are
ell which lead to unhappineSs or
omething "a good deal worse.