The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-13
SHE GETS HIN.
HOW A SPRINGFIELD GIRL SECURED A
HUSBAND.

A sewing girl in this city has had
romantic experience which is worth
the telling. Several months ago
man of Dubuque, Iowa, advertised IN
an eastern Massachusetts paper ior
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 account OF her.
self and her circumstances was very
largely fictitious, especially that
which told livery Incidentally as if
it were of no consequence 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 adj
vertiser received which struck his
fancy. He wrote to the supposed
"widow'' (who, in fact, had never
been married, and was earning her
living with her needle,) photo
graphs were exchanged; the letters
grew more and more aHcctionate, m
til the young woman, realizing that
the affair was no longc, a joke, wrote
to her new found admirer and told
him frankly Of her humble circum-
stances.
! Of course he admired her al the
more, and at last he came from Du.
buque to this city to claim her for
his bride. Instead Of the sleek and
J, intelligent and manly individual
whom she had expected from his let,
ter and his photograph, what was
her vexation to see person of deci-
aedly seedy appearance, wearing an
, old SLOUGH hat, and appearing alto
gether unattractive. Well, she re-
3 fused him, and he, Gliding her bit
: terly for so doing after all the pains
he had taken to win her, returned to
? Iowa. l suppose he hadn't left the
! house before she was sorry-.such is
the flexible character of female afecs
4 tion-and it is certainly true that
9 she was very sorry, indeed, before he
+. had put a thousand miles between
them. He wrote no more, but the
: distressed young woman wrote, or
7 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 he was, some
D thing she ought to have thought of
in the first place. The replies were
s uniformly complimentary, and every
e one only increased her regret that
: she, poor sewing-girl, had refused
o a "good-match."
: Never n word came from him, and
: at last she swallowed her pride, re-
opened the correspondence herself,
a and told him how she had misjudged
q him and how sorry she was that she
J. had. Promptly came manly reply,
:, from which she discovered that when
IL he visited her here, he had inten
l. tionally made himself unattractive
u as possible, from romantic notion
q that she ought to take him for what
+ he was and not for what he wore. o.
IL course they were married, and the
o poor sewing girl has for her hus
J bond one of the leading citizens o.
Dubuque, and for her home one o.
n the finest mansions in Dubuque
II This true story ought to have a mora
J. of the negative sort-namely, tina
G young girls are not to infer from i
10 that it is safe for them to answe
matrimonial advertisements, wher
rs one case of this sort has, like this,
e happy issue, there are ten which leat
ID to unhappiness or something grea
y deal worse Boston Herald.