American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-03
A Nice Little Romance.

A sewing girl in Springfield, Mass, has
had a romantic experience which is
worth the telling. Several months ago
a man at Dubuque, Iowa, advertised in
an eastern Massachusetts, paper for n
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 represented
herself as young widow, and her lively
account of herself and her circum-
stances were very largely fictitious,
especially that which told (very incl
dentally, as if it were of no consequence
of the snug sum of money left her by
her 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 ex-
changed; the letters grew more and
more affectionate, until 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 admired her all the more,
and at last he came from Dubuque,
Iowa, to claim her for his bride. In
stead of the sleek and intelligent-looki
and manly individual whom she had ex-
pected from his letter and his photo
graph, what was her vexation
to see person of decidedly
seedy appearance, wearing an old
SLOUGH hat, and appearing altogether
unattractive. Well, she refused him,
and he, Gliding her bitterly for so doing
after all the pains he had taken to win
her, returned alone to Iowa. l 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 she was very sorry, indeed, before
he had put a thousand miles between
them. He wrote no more, but the dis
tressed young woman wrote, or got
friends to write, to the pastor of the
church he attended, and to various per-
sons in Dubuque, to find out what sort
of n man he was-something she ought
to have thought of in the first place.
The replies were uniformly compli-
mentary, and every one only increased
her regret that she, poor sewing-girl,
had refused tgood match"
Never word came from him, and at
last she swallowed her pride, reopened
the correspondence herself, and told
him how that she had misjudged him,
and how sorry she was that she had.
Promptly came Il manly reply, from
which she discovered that when he visit
ed her here he had Intentionally made
himself as unattractive as possible, 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 hus-
band one of the leading citizens of Du-
buque, and for her home one of the
! finest mansions in the place. This true
story ought to have A moral of the mega
| tive sort, namely: that young girls are
not to infer from il that it is safe for
| them to answer matrimonial advertise
ments; for where one case of this sort
has, like this, a happy issue, there are
ten which lead to unhappiness or some
thing great deal worse.-fOr. Boston
| Herutd.
In Elgin, Wabasha County, Mimi, Il
cow lived II days beneath a straw stack
which had blown down upon her. She