The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
Romance Of an Advertisement. .

Romance ofa Adyertiseme
The Springfield (Mass.) CORES.
pondent of the Boston Herald
writes: A sewing-girl in this city
has had romantic experience which
Is worth telling. Several months
ago a man at Dubuque, Iowa, ad.
vertised in an Eastern Massachusetts
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 represented herself as a
young widow, and her lively ac-
count af herself and her circumstan-
ces was ve-y largely fictitious, espe-
cially that which told (very Incl
dentally, as if it was of no cOnse-
quence) 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 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, aud the oung
woman, realizing that the affair was
no longer a joke, wrote to her new
found admirer and told him frankly
of her hamble circumstances.
OF course he admired her all the
more, and at last he came from Du-
buque to this city to claim her for
his bride. Instead of the sleek and
intelligent-looking and manly indi-
vidual whom she had expected from
his letter and his photograph, what
was her vexation to see person of
decidedly seedy appearance, wearing
an old slouch hat and appearing al
together unattractive. Well, she
refused him, aud he, chiding her
bitterly for so doing after all the
pains he had taken to win her, re-
turned 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 cer-
tainly true that she was very sorry,
indeed, before he had put a thou
sand 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 a
man this was-something she ought
to have thought of i'm the first place.
The replies were uniformly compli-
mentary, and every one only in
creased her regret that she, a poor
sewing-girl, had refused a "good |
match"
Never a word came from him, and
at last she swallowed her pride, re-
opened the correspondence herself,
and told him how she had misjudg-
ed 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
as possible from a ro-
mantle notion that she ought to take
him for what he was, and not for
what be wore. Of course they were
and the poor sewiug-girl
has for her husband one of the lead
ing 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
namely, that young girls are not to
infer from it that il is safe for them
10 answer matrimonial advertise
ments, for, where one case of this
sort has, like this, happy issue, there
are ten which lead to unhappiness SIS
Dr. something a good deal worse.