The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-12

How n Romantic Massachusetts Girl
Secured n Husband.

Springfield Dispatch to Boston Herald.I
A sewing girl in this city has had roman
tic experience which is worth the telling.
Several months ago man at Dubuque, Ia,
advertised in an eastern Massachusetts paper
for a wife. Among 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 was my heroine,
who represented herself as young widow,
and whose lively account of herself and her
circumstances was very largely fictitious,
especially that which told VERY incident
ally, as If it was of no consequence of the
snug sum of money left her by the dear de-
parted. She never expected to hear OF the
matter again, but that was the one letter
out of all the advertiser received which
widow" (who. in fact, had never been
married, and was then earning her
living with her needle); photographs
were exchanged the letters grew
more and more afectionate, I'M
til 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 ad-
mired her then all the more, and at last he
came from Dubuque TO this city to claim
her for his bride. Instead of the slick and
intelligent looking and manly individual
whom she had expected from his letter and
his photograph. what was her vexation to see
a person of decidedly seedy appearance,
wearing an old SLOUGH nat and appearing al
together unattractive. Well, she refused
him, and he, Gliding her bitterly for so
DOING after all the pains he bad taken to
win her, returned alone to Iowa. j suppose
he hadn't left the house before she was
sorry-such is the flexible character of fe-
male affection-and it is certainly true that
she vas sorry, indeed, before he had put a
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 wes-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
though, that he would hear of the inquiries
that she was making, aud reopen the CORE
spondsnce with her. Butnevera word from
him, and at last che swallowed her pride,
reopened the correspondence herself, and
told him how she had misJudged him, and
| how sorry she ives that she had. Promptly
came a manly reply, from which she discov-
cred that when he visited her here he had
intentionally made himself unattractive from
a romantic notion that she ought TO take him
| for what he was, and not for what he wore.
| OF course they got married. and the poor
sewing girl ha. for husband one of the lead
ing citizens of Dubuque and her home is
one OF the finest mansions in Dubuque. This
4 true story ought to have a moral of the neg
alive sort-nauely, that young girls are not
| to infer from il that it IS safe for them to
answer matrimonial advertisements, for,
| where one case is of sort like this, happy
/ issue, there are ten which lead to unhappi-
ness or something great deal worse.