The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-31
A ROMANCE IN AN ASYLUM.
How Two Lovers were Separated and
at Last United in Marriage.
From the Nelo York World.

at Last United in Marriage.
From the Nelo York World.
There were no white slippers thrown to
hit the solemn old coachman, nor rice
sprinkled down the high collar of the
groom, but all the same it was a happy
wedding that carried off dark-eyed Rosa
Altman from the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, on Ninth avenue and
One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street,
and made her Mrs. Cyrus Manser
1t had been case of boy-and-girl love and
it was something remarkable under the cir
cumstances that the love of a by ear
boy and an 12year old girl should have
found enough to feed upon in stolen glances
now and then, and an occasional letter that
ran every risk of being confiscated.
But love is queer old faster and it throve
and grew fat on all the bad treatment.
Cyrus Manser was brought to the orphan
asylum when he was about 10 years old.
The boys asylum was then on Seventy
seventh street, while the girls department
was several blocks further uptown. On
Saturdays and on holidays the girls came
down to the headquarters of the boys and,
sitting in the chapel, boys and girls used to
shoot shy glances at one another, and now
and again got chance for a
Then all of a sudden the superintend-
emit. the Rev. Herman Barr, came
across love letter, a passionate, 14-year-
old girl love letter-all about how "If you
love me as | love you, no knife can cut our
love in two." Naturally he was very much
disturbed, even, as he frankly confesses
now, angry. He brought up the culprit
lover and made him promise he would
never do SO any more. Cyrus promised
fast enough, and took the very first oppor-
tunity of getting word to Rosa how the
land lay, and she returned word to him that
1t was too bad, indeed it wasp
The two lovers were interesting children
and great pains were taken with their edu-
cation. For while they were together in
the one big asylum, and they fiattered
themselves, if nobody else knew it, that
they were engaged. Then they were
separated. The young man went to Cleve-
land as tutor in an asylum there, and the
girl was put into the Mount Sinai Training
School for. Nurses, where she became the
most proficient nurse they had.
For little while the lovers lost sight of
each other. Then they met again and be-
came openly engaged. Their prospects i'm
proved more and more, until finally posi-
tion was offered to Cyrus and Rosa as
superintendent and matron of an orphan
asylum in San Francisco. That meant a
wedding at last and the offer was joyfully
accepted. A white wedding gown was
made, the directors and the patrons and all
the $50 little orphans were invited to the
chapel, and after service the ceremony was
performed.
Carl Schurz, when he was told that
pretty Rosa. who had been SO successful as
trained nurse in his house, was married,
said he did not know the lucky man, but
that ''if he were as good as his bride, mar
riage could not prove a failure" This
week Mr.. and Mrs. Manser are speeding
across the continent to California, and on
Jan. l they enter upon their new duties.
Moreover, $50 little orphaned hearts are
still thrilling at the romance which is the
first they ever knew.