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ROMANCE OF AN ADVERTISEMENT.

The Springfield {Mass,) correspondent of the Boston Herald writes: A tewing girl in this city has had • romantio experience which is worth telling. Bereral months ago a man atDubuque, lowa, advertised in the eastern "Massachusetts paper for a wife, Among a swarm of answers. which he received, were; two from, two girls in thisi«tji who replied, just for the fun of the thing. One of them represented herself as a widow, and her lively account of herself and her circumstances was very largely, fictitious, especially; that which told (very incidentally, as if it was of no consequence) of the 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 W« fajacy.. 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, Until the young woman, realising that the affair Was no longer a. jokey wrote to her new-found admirer and told him frankly of her humbW circumstances.

Of course he admired her all the more, and at last he came from Dubuque to this city to claim her for his bride. Instead of the sleek and intelligent-looking and manly individual whom she had expected from his letter and his photograph, what was her vexation to see a person of ' decidedly seedy appearance, wearing an old slouch-hat and appearing altogether unattractive. Well, she refused him, and he, chiding her bitterly for so doing after all the pains he had taken to win her, returned alone to lowa. I 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 mere, but the distressed young woman wrote, or got friends to write, to the pastor of the church be attended and to various persons in Dubuque, to find out what sort of a man this was— something she ought to have thought" of in the first place. The replies were uniformly complimentary, and every one only increased her]regret; that ibe, a poor sewing girl,had refused a" goodmatcti. ; Never a word earner from him, and at lait she swallowed her pride, re-opened the correspondence herself, and told him bow she misjudged him and bow sorry she was that she bad.. Promptly came a manly reply, from which she. discovered that when be visited her here he had in* tentionally made himself as unattractive as possible, from a romantio 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 girf baa for her husband one of the leading citizens of Dubuque, and for her home one of the finest mansions in Dubuque. This true story ought to have a moral of the negative sort—namely, that young girls are not to infer from it that it is safe for them to answer matrimonial advertisement, for where one ease of this sort has like this a happy issue, there are ten which lead to unhappiness or something a good deal worse.

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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3181, 30 April 1879, Page 1

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ROMANCE OF AN ADVERTISEMENT. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3181, 30 April 1879, Page 1

ROMANCE OF AN ADVERTISEMENT. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3181, 30 April 1879, Page 1

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