The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-04-03
4 PKETTY ROMANCE,



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Hnsband:
A Springfield (Mass) correspondent
Of the Boston Herald vouohes for the
truth Of the following charming little
romance:
Several months ago q man at Du-
buque, Iowa, advertised In an Eastern
Massachusetts, paper for wife. Among
o SWARM of answers which be 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 (veY incidentally, as If It was of no
consequence of the snug sum OF money
left har by her 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
and more affectionate, until the young
woman, realizing that the affair was no
longer a joke, wrote to her new-found
admirer and told him frankly of her
humble circumstances.
Of course he admired her all the more,
and at last he came from Dubuque to
this city to claim her for his bride. In
stead of the sleek and intelligent-look-
ing and manly individual whom she had
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graph, what was her vexation to see a
person of decidedly seedy appearance,
wearing an old slouch hat, and appear
ing altogether unattractive. Well, she
refused him, and he, chiding her bittei
ly 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 affections
and it Is certainly true that she WIS
very sorry, indeed, before he had put q
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 attended
and to various persons in Dubuque, tc
find out what sort of a man this was
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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"
Never a word came from him, and al
last she swallowed her pride, reopened
the correspondence herself, and told
him how she had misjudged him and
how sorry she was that she had
Promptly came a manly reply, from
which she discovered that, when he
visited her here, he had Intentionally
made himself as unattractive as posi-
bic, 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.gir
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 have mora,
of the negative sort-namely, that
young girls are not to infer from it thai
it is safe for them to answer matrimonial
advertisements, for where one case o.
this sort has, like this, a happy issue
there are ten which lead to unhappiness
or something good deal worse.