The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
A PRETTY ROMANCE.
How u Massachusetts Girl Secured an low
Husband;

Husband:
A Springfield (Mass.) correspondent
of the Boston Herald vouches for the
truth of the following charming little
romance:
Several months ago a man at Du-
buque, Iowa, advertised in an Eastern
Massachusetts, paper for wife. Among
q 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 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
expected from his letter and his photo
graph, what was her vexation to see
person Of decidedly seedy appearance,
wearing an old SLOUGH hat, and appear
ing altogether unattractive. Well, she
refused him, and he, Gliding her bittek
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
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 attended,
and to various persons in Dubuque, to
find out what sort of man this was
something she ought to have thought of
in the first place. The replies were
uniformly mplimentary, 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 she had misjudged him and
how sorry she was that she had.
Promptly came manly reply, from
which she discovered that, when he
visited her here, he had Intentionally
made himself as unattractive as posi-
Bile, 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 Dubuque.
This true story ought to have moral
of the negative sort-nsmely, that
young girls are not to infer from it that
it is safe for them to answer matrimonial
advertisements, for where one case of
this sort has, ike this, a happy issue,
there are ten which lead to unhappiness
or something good deal worse.