The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-04-13
4 "BRuSHWO0D Boy
TALE OF REAL LIFE
Wealthy New Yorker Likens
His Romance to Kipiing's
Mysterious Story.
WILL WE'D a POOR GIRL
Scion of Aristocracy Chooses for His
Bride a Poor Jewess, Who ttas
Known the Poverty and
Struggles of the Poor.

New York, April 11.-Not since Israel
ZangWill, the author, married a Gentle,
has the orthodox East Sid been so
stirred as by the announcement that
Rose Harriet Pastor. :. SIS 81 week
writer ON the staff of the Jewish Daily
News and 4 settlement worker in the
Guild house in Rivington street, was
to marry j. e.. Phelps Stokes. sou of
a we'll known banker. Arson Phelps
Stokes, and n brother of the Rev. An
son Phelps Stokes, jr, secretary of
Yale university.
Seated IN his library in he niver-
sity settlement yesterday, Mr.. &tokes
discussed the remarkable nan
which is to end in his marriage in July
to Miss Pastor. Simply and mOdeStly,
but with an enthusiasm almost boyish,
MI. Stokes talked of the love affair that
has set the Whole city talking. from
the palaces of the four hundred to the
tenements of Cherry street.
He told how he had met Miss Pastor,
how they were drawn together, how
| they had become n in soul and mind,
described the girls struggles with DOv-
erty IN the past and their plans as ma
and wife for the future. He spoke of
the affinity which makes their mar
riage Inevitable, n drew some com
parsons between tlier a and
the story OF kipling's "Brushwood
Roy
Inevitable Has Happened.
"What has happened was inevitable
.-Mr. Stokes said. 1T was to be. Ac-
cording to the theory of unity of souls.
Miss Pastor and 1 have been married
since last October.
II can imagine go more beautiful or
purer democratic union than that of
Miss Pastor and myself, although the
idea of social equality has never en-
tered it. 1t has been from the be-
ginning q union of mind and spirit.
She has the same ideas, the same
ideals, the same thoughts as l. I have
objected to the word engagement be-
ing applied to Hur case We are not
engaged; we never ilave been, now
could we be? We are one, have been
one for months past, as much as we
ever could be-that is, spiritually. The
marriage is merely to satisfy the world.
Nv have never mentioned an en-
gagement; there was never anything
in the nature of a proposal of mar
riage. / first met her when she am
to me for an interview for the Jewish
Daily News about two years ago. L
was deeply Impressed by her deep in
sight, her understanding OF life. her APP
probation Of things rs they are.
affair OF the Soul.
"This is an affair Of the soul; has
been from the very beginning.
"She was born in Russia, but left that
country when she was d mere child:
then moved to London, where she lived
With her family. / believe, in Petticoat
alley, Whitectlapel, when Jack the
Ripper and that sort of thing was go
ing on. She suffered a lot. She had Il
common school education there, but
her real education has been in the
school of life, as you might say. She
worked in Il cigar factory in Cleveland.
trying to support her little step-sisters
on q salary of 81 or IS a week; then she
came here and L net her.
Unlike Kipling's 'BrushWood Boy l
had no forewarning of this. In fact.
my mind had been Il blank as far as
that sort of thing was concerned.
II was attracted to her on the first
day, but might not have seen her again
had she not come down here to take
charge of a girls club in the settle
nlent. Then the feeling of sameness
of u spirits grew rapidly. She lived
nearby for q time, but now she has
moved to the Bronx.
She has gone back to work in a
cigar factory that she might get at tbs
life of the girls again before it was
too late That vas at my suggestion
u week ago. I wrote her Wednesday
night suggesting that she stay al
home yesterday. rs the news has come
out soone than we expected and tbs
publicity might be unpleasant for her