Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-08-21
SHE GETS HIM.
How a Springfield Girl Secured 9
Husband.
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Boston Herald.
S "A sewing girl in this city ha
e had a romantic experience
d which is worth the telling
!. Several months ago a man a
J. Dubuque, Iowa, advertised in al
: Eastern Massachusetts, papeI
n for a wife. Among a swarm of
I answers which he received wer,
2 two from two girls in This city
! who replied just for the fun of
the thing. One of them repre-.
t scented herself as a young wild.
ow, and her lively account Of
herself and her circumstances
was very largely fictitious, es-
, pecially that which told Every
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 ont of
lall the advertiser received which
Istruck his fancy. He wrote to
1.-THE supposed "widow" (who in
lfact, had never been married,
and was earning her living with
a needle), photographs were ex-
changed; the letters grew more
and more affectionatc, until the
Young woman, realizing that the
affair was no longer joke,
wrote to her ncw-fcund admirer
and told him frankly of her
humble circumstances.
Of course he admired her ~
the more, and at last he came from
Dubuque to this city to claim
her for his bride. Instead of
the sleek and intelligent-look-
ing and manly individual whom
she had expected from his letter
and his photograph, what was
her vexation to sec person Of
decidedly seedy appearance,
wearing an old slouch hat, and
appearing altogether unattrac-
tive. Well, che refused him,
and he, chiding her bitterly for
so doing after all the pains he
had taken to win her, returned
to Iowa. / suppose he hadn't
left the house before she was
is the flexible char
acter of female affection-and
it is certainly tue that she was
very sorry, indeed, before he
had put thousand miles be-
tween them. He wrote no
more, but the distressed young
woman wrote, or got friends to
write, to the pastor of the
church he attended, and to va
rious persons in Dubuque, to
find ont what sort Of a man he
was-something she ought to '
have thought ofinthe first-place.
The replies were uniformly COM t
plimentary, and every one only :
increased her regret that she, a $
poor sewing-girl, had refused a [
''good match. :" 1
Never a word came from him,
and at last she swallowed her !;
pride, reopened the correspond ;
ence herself, and told him how :
she had misjudgcd him and how !;
sorry she was that she had. !;
Promptly came a manly reply, !
rom which she discovered that
when he visited her here, he
lad intentionally made himself Q
lnattractive as possible, from a t
omantic notion that she ought t
o take him for what he was b
lot for what he wore. OF t
course they were married, and b
he poor sewing girl has for her
husband one of the lcading cit ;,
zens of Dubuque, and for her f
lome one of the finest mansions !
II Dubuque. This true story h
,ught to have moral of the Il
Negative sort-namely, that q
-oung girls are not to infer
rom it that it is safe for them
o answer matrimonial adver- 81
isements. Where one case of Il
his sort has, like this a happy Il
ssue, there are ten which lead b
o unhappiness or something a 81
.reat deal worse. g
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