Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-02-14
She Only Did it For Fun.
HOW A SEWING GIRL LOST AND FINALLY
WON HUSBAND.

HOW A SEWING GIRL LOST AND FINALLY
WON A HUSBAND.
Several months ago man at Dubuque.
Ia, advertised in an Eastern Massachu-
sets paper for 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 a
young widow, and whose lively accounts
OF herself and her circumstances was very
largely fictitious, especially that which
told livery incidentally, as if it was of 10
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 out of all the ad-
vertiser 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, realiziLg that the
affair was no longer a joke, Wro to her
new found admirer and told him Of her
humble circumstances. OF course he ad-
came from Dubuque to this city 10 claim
her for his bride. Instead of the slick and
intelligent-looking and manly individual
whom she bad expected from his letters
and his photograph, what was her vexa-
ton to see person of decidedly seedy
appearance wearing an old SLOUGH
hat, ard appearing altogether I'M
attractive. Well, she refused him, aid
he, Gliding her bitterly for so doing,
after all the pains he had taken to win
her, returned alone to Iowa. 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 size
was very sorry before he had put Il thou
more, but the distressed young woman
wrote. or got friends to write, to the pas
tor OF the church he attended, and to vari-
Gus 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 COMPLIMENTS
ry, and every one only Increased her regret
that she, poor sewing girl, had refused
s'good match" Didn't she hope, though,
that he would hear If the inquiries she
was making, and reopen the correspon-
dence with her. But never word from
him. and at last she swallowed her pride,
I0Opeu6u tuo correspondence ueISelta anu
told him how she had misjudged him and
how sorry she was that she had. Prompt
ly came a manly reply, from which she dis
covered that when he visited her here he
had Intentionally made himself as unat- |
tractive as possible, from a romantic no.
ton 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 Du-
buQue This true story ought to have a
moral of the negative sort-namely, thai
Young girls are not to infer from it that it
IS safe for them to answer matrimonial ad- I
for, where one case of this
sort has, like this, a happy issue, there are
IN which lead to unhappiness or some
hing a good deal Worse,-Sprinqfeld
Mass.) Letter,