The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-16
A Sewing Girls Romance,

A sewing girl in this city, writes 3
Springfield (Mass.,, correspondent, has
had a romantic experience that is worth
the telling. Several months ago man
at Dubuque, a., advertised in an eastern
Massachusetts, paper for a vile. Among
the 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
herself and her circumstances was very
largely fictitious, especially that which
told very incidentally, as if it was 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 advertiser received which struck
his fancy. He wrote to the supposed
"widow" (who, in fact had never been
married, and who was then earning her
living with her needle); photographs
were exchanged; the letters grew more
afectionate, until the young woman, re-
alizing that the affair was no longer a
joke, wrote to her new-found admirer and
told him frankly of her humble circum-
stances.
Of course he admired her even more
and at last came from Dubuque tc this
city to claim her for his bride. Instead
of the sleek and intelligent looking and
manly individual whom she had expected
from his letter and his photograph, what
was her vexation to see person decided
~ seedy in appearance, wearing an old
slouch hat, and appearing altogether un-
attractive. Well, she refused him, and
he, Gliding her bitterly for so doing after
the pains he had taken to win her, re-
turned alone to Iowa. I suppose he
hadn't left the house before she was sor-
ry-such is the flexible character of fe-
male affec.ion--and it is certainly true
that she was very sorry, indeed, before he
had put thousand miles between them.
He wrote no more, but the distressed
young woman wrote, or got friends to
write, to the pastor of the church he at
tended and to various persons in Du-
buque, to find out what sort of man this
was-something she ought to have
thought of in the first place. The replies
were uniformly complimentary, and every
one only increased her regret that she. a
poor sewing girl, had refused "good
match" 49,
Never a word came from him, and at
last she swallowed her pride, reopened
the correspondence herself, and told him
how she had misjudged MIN and how
sorry she was that she had. Promptly
came a manly roply from which she dis
covered that when he visited her here,
he had intentionally made himself as un-
attractive as possible, from a romantic
notion that she ought to take him for
what he was and not for what he wore.
Of course they were married, and the
poor sewing girl has for her husband one
Of the leading citizens of Dubuque. And
for her home one Of the finest mansions
in Dubuque. This true story ought to
to have moral of the negative sort
namely, that young girls are not to infer
from it that it is safe for them to an.
| swer matrimonial advertisements, for
where one case of this sort has, like this,
happy issue, there are ten which lead
to unhappiness or something great deal
I WORSE