The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-02-26
A Sewing Girl,s Romance.

e SS"ihS glri IN tnls city, write
2 Springfield Mass correspondent
mas had romantic experience tba
is worth the telling. Several month
ago man at Dubuque, Ia, adver
tised in an eastern Massachusetts
paper for a wife. Among the swarm
Of answers which be received wer,
Two from two girls in this city, who
replied just for the fun of the thing.
One Of them represented herself AZ
young widow, asd her lively &C.
count of herself and her circum.
STAGES was very largely fictitious,
especially that which told very &C.
cidentally, as if it was of no conss.
quenee) Of the snug sum Of money
left her by the dear departed. She
never expected To hear OF the matter
again, but that was the one letter
out Of all the advertiser received
which struck his fancy. He wrote
to the supposed widow" (who, in
act had never been married. and
Who was then earning her living
with her needle,) photographs were
exchanged the letters grew more
and more affectionate, until the
young woman, realizing that the af.
fair was no longer a joke, wrote to
her new-found admirer aud told him
frankly Of her humble circumstances
Or course he admired her all the
more, and at last came from Dubu.
que to this city to claim her for his
bride. Instead OF the sleek and in.
telligent looking and manly individ.
usl whom she had expected from his
letter and bis photograph, what was
her vexation to see a person Of de. !
cidedly seedy appearance, wearing
an old sleuch hat, and appearing al. |
together unattractive. Well, she re. |
fused him, and he, chiding her bit. |
terly for so doing after the pains he
had taken to win her, returned alone
to Iowa. suppose he hadn't left
the house before she was sorry
such is the flexible character of fe.
male afection-and it is certainly
true that she was very sorry, indeed,
before he had put a thousand miles
between them. He wrote no more.
but the distressed woman wrote. or
got friends to write, to the pastor of
The church he attended and to vari.
Gus persons in Dubuque, to find out
What sort of man this was-some.
hing she ought TO have thought Of
n the first place. The replies we're
uniformly complimentary, and every
one only increased her regret that
'he, a poor sewing girl, had refused
| good match"
Never a word came from him. and
It last she swallowed her pride, re.
opened the correspondence herself,
md told him how she had misjudged
him and how sorry she was that she
lad. Promptly came manly reply,
rom which she discovered that when
le visited her here, he had inten.
ionally made himself as unattract.
We as possible, from a romantic no
ion that she ought to take him for
yhat he was and not for what he
7ore. Ofcourse they were married,
nd the poor sewing girl has for her
one Of the leading citizens
# Dubuque, aud for her home one
f the finest mansions in Dubuque.
his true story ought TO have a NOR
! Of the negative sort-namely. that
Oung girls are not to infer from it
haiti is safe for them 10 answer
Matrimonial advertisements, for
here one case Of this sort has, like
his, a happy issue, there are ten
Ihich lead to unhappiness or some.
hing a great deal worse.--NetV York
ynton.