Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — A Romance of Real Lite. [ARTICLE]

A Romance of Real Lite.

Evntroaoe in a while a passage in the history of a life is brought to light which is stream and more romantic than any fiction. Notwithstanding the industry of the Jenkins family, these do not always find their way into the newspapers. The announcement in the New York papers a few months ago of the departure of a certain vessel for England recalled to those who were acquainted with one of her passengers an interesting story. This person was a young German under thirty years old wuo had just completed a : period of teaching in a Berkshire County seminary, and Who was now with Ids newly-married wife on his way to the Fatherland. Some years before, in his native Germany, this young man had fallen in love with one of the blooming maidens in the place where he resided, and his attachment was ardently returned by the young woman. A speedy marriage would nave been consummated had not parental authority interfered. The father of the girl objected to the bans, and did everything in his power to keep the lovers apart. In this distracting state of affairs they did not elope after the usual fashion, but the young man, forbidden the house of his beloved, bade fare wall to his country and passed over to France, to forget, If possible; in new scenes and occupations, his fraulein. Several years followed in giddy, fashionable Paris, in which the self-exile gained some knowledge of the world, as well as made ae quisitions to liis studies in music and languages. After a time as he developed into larger manhood, and his native abilaies, adorned by culture, drew him into a refined and intellectual society, lie outgrew his love so. the simple girl at home, and came to consider his old attachment its a mer« boyish passion. This would have been all well enough if the “girl he left behind" had only shared in this growth and change. So far from that, the years only st rengthened her affection. Her life had "been quiet and uneventful, and she had plenty of time to brood over the image of the absent one. A few years more spent in France and then the young man came to America to try his fortune as a teacher in our schools. A year or two more passed, in which he vas successfully employed in the Berkshire boarding-school. Ilis ability, good looks and address made him a favorite In society, and he on his part found thcAmeiican girls quite as interesting as their German sisters had been! Just here, and a little more than a year ago, he received a letter from the father of his early llame informing him that his daughter was still deeply in love, that she,was indeed utterly disconsolate and miserable without him, that she was likely to die of disappointment if she coultfci’t marry him, and, most astounding or all, that she was coming to America! —that she would embark alone in a few days for New York,where she hoped to be met by her old lover. Probably quite different conclusions would be arrived at by different persons as to the duty of the young man in this most painful dilemma. The girlV father bad denounced him, utterly refusing him for a son-inlaw; forced to a separation, lie had gradually outgrown his love, coming finally to rejoice in the circumstances that had forbidden him to ally himself wita a woman unfitted to be his'ltfe-compamoh. What was he to do? The girl was already on her way to New York. Unattended, totally ignorant of our language and customs, the steamer on its arrival at the city would turn her adrift It took cur hero hut a short time to decide. Obeying a conscience that most would call oversensitive and morbid, he went to the metropolis to meet the solitary German girl at the wharf w here she landed, and in a few days more the long-separated and strangely-met pair were married. Several months followed in the seminary, during which the ignorant wife gained some practical knowledge of English, and then the two sailed away for the old world, the husband to fulfill an engagement to teach in a German institution and the wife to share her fortunes with his. It is to be hoped that the bride is as happy as she had dreamed, and as for the fine-grained and chivalrous groom, our best wishes alone can attend him.— Cor. Sprin'gfield (Mass.) Republican.