The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-08
The Most Wonderful Romance Of the
Year Will Culminate This Month in
Wedding When q Poor Jewish
Cigarmaker Will Become the Bride
of One of the Famous Stokes Family.

The prettiest romance New York has
Tuesday, July IS, when Miss Rose Pas
tor, child of the Ghetto, and J. G.
Phelps Stokes, descendant of four colo
NAL governors, will be married. The
wedding will take place at the magnifi-
cent Stokes country place in Connecti-
CUE. for the family has received the
bride with open arms. When the en-
parents were travelling in Europe, but
they promptly cabled their congratula-
tions. The wedding will take place on
the BRIDES 9th birthday anniversary,
and the bridal gown will cost just $40.
Miss Pastor, whose marriage to Mr..
Stokes will raise her at once from the
poverty of the Fast Side into family
gustovo, Suwalk, Russion. When she
was 3 years old her parents emigrated
to London, where she attended the Jew
ish Free school. In 1891 the family came
to this country and went to live in
Cleveland. The girl, then IL years old,
went to work in cigar factory, helping
her parents earn a livelihood.
Bride Cigarmaker.
For eleven years she toiled in the fac
tory, working frequently twelve and
fourteen hours a day. Like her fellow
workers she knew little Of the great
world without, and seldom was she able
to spend day in the sunshine. She
longed, however, for the fresh air and
tha better things of life, and this long
ing found its expression in several
verse to the Jewish Review and OBJ
server in Cleveland and it was pub
lished.
The subject of all her writings was
tn awful monotony Of the toll Of the
the awful monotony of the toll Of the
ence she was able to picture the yearn
ings of the. working girl in a way that
impressed the readers of the paper. Her
verse also attracted the attention of the
publishers Of the Jewish Daily News
of New York, and three years ago she
| accepted position on the staff Of the
paper,
Meets MIR. Stokes. ~
Miss Pastor tells this story of her
first meeting with Mr.. Stokes:
''The editor assigned me to interview
Mr.. j. G. Phelps Stokes on his work at
| the University Settlement. I instantly
rebelled. I had never seen Mr.. Stokes
but had pictured him as a stern old
man, difficult to interview. No, ]
editor so. He called it INSTRUMENTATION
and was finally induced to Cover the
assignment. l made straight for the
University Settlement. You cannot
imagine how delighted T was to find
Mr.. Stokes was out of the city.
A few weeks later, however, I was
| assigned to try again. But once more
| was told that Mr.. Stokes was out of
town, but that he would return in d
the exception Of the information that
Mr.. Stokes would soon be back. Now
all along the editor had observed my
growing unwillingness to interview Mr.
Stokes. So few days later was not
surprised to hear him making an APP,
pointment by telephone with Mr.. Stokes
to meet me and grant me an interview
81 was not in the pleasantest OF
moods when l went one night to keeI
the appointment. On my way to the
settlement / met a friend and begged
him to accompany me on my mission
He refused at first, but finally con
sented It was he who introduced me
to my future husband. was agreeably
surprised to find that Mr.. Stokes was
by no means the man [ had pictured
him to be. He treated me with the
utmost courtesy, gave me all the in
formation I desired and then showed me
about the building. I recall now that
we went out on the balcony together
and I shall never forget the faraway
look in Mr.. Stokes IS eyes as he gazed
down on the throng of humanity in the
street. AS I looked up at him thought
I saw some resemblance in his face
to the great Abraham Lincoln. In his
eyes I noticed soulful look that
seemed to express sympathy for al
mankind.
"And now we are to be married
i Don't call it an engagement: I DOM
| like the word Tt signifies the exist
ence of a bond between two people
We are not two. We are one. We
understand each other thoroly.o
Mr.. Stokes Impressed.
/ The young millionaire became i'm
pressed with the beauty and talent OF
his interviewer and he tnla hex ht