Connecticut western news., 1879-12-31
A Romance of Our Own Day.
HOW A SPRINGFIELD GIRL FIRST REJEoTED
 AND THEN MARRIED HER LOVER.

The Boston Herald tells this story: A sewing girl in Springfield has had romantic experience which is worth the telling. Several months ago man of Dubuque, Iowa, advertised in an eastern Massachusetts paper for 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 her. self as young widow, and her lively account of herself and her circumstances was very largely fictitious, especially that which told Every incidentally, as if it were of no consequence) of the snug sum of money left her by her dear de- parted. She never expected to hear of the matter again, but that WAS the one letter out of all the answers received which struck his fancy. He wrote to the supposed "widow" (who, in fact, had never been married, and who WAS th en earning her living with her needle) photographs were exchanged; the let ters grew more and more affeotionate, until the young woman, realizing that the affair was no longer Joke, wrote to her new-found admirer and told him frankly of her humble circumstances.
 Of course he admired her all the more, md as last he came from Dubuque to this city to claim her for his bride. In stead of the sleek and intelligent-l looking and manly individual whom she had expected from his letter and his photo graph, what was her vexation to see a person of decidedly seedy appearance, wearing an old slouch hat, and appear ing altogether unattractive. We'll, she refused hiro, and he, chiding her bit terly for so doing after all the pains he had taken to win her, returned alone to Iowa, I suppose he hadn't left the house before she was sorry-such is the flexible character of female affection 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 pegtor of the church he attended, and to various persons in Dubuque, to find out what sort of a man he 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, poor sewing girl, had refused "good match"
 Never word came from him, and at last she swallowed her pride, reopened the correspondence herself, and told him how that she had misjudged him, and how sorry she was that she had. Promptly came manly reply, from which she discovered that when he vis- ited her here he had Intentionally made himself as unattractive as possible, from 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 the place. This true story ought to have moral of the nega- tive sort, namely that young girls are not to infer from it that it is safe for them to answer matrimonial advertise ments for where one case of this sort has, like this, happy issue, there are ten which lead to unhappiness or some thing great deal worse.