Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-11-12

THE YANKEE GIRL.


Every land has its own d" beau deal' Of
woman, and its own ladies have been be.
praised in certain good set terms, with which
every body, the least read in polite litera-
ture, is perfectly acquainted. Who has no,
heard of the noble bearing, the beauty and
domestic virtue of the danes of England !
OF the sprightliness and fiacina,ion of the la
dies of France How have the light foot
step of Spain, the melting eye of Italy been
said and sung. And to this florists feast OF
nations, may not the plain old farmer, New
England, come, spade in hand, and bring
the flower of his own land Let the En-
glish lady be enlhroncd as the lilly-,hc
French, the ever bright and varying tulip
the Sponsh and Italian, the full moss rose /:
the richest and most vouptuous of flowers.
The Yankee girl is the rose laurel, whose
blossoms no garden flower ever exceled in
rosy delicacy and graccfulncss of form, but
whose root asks neither garden-bcd nor gar
dener's care. but will take for itself strong
hold where there is a handful of earth in the
cleft Of a rock, whose polished leaf shakes
green and cheerful over the SHOWS of the
kecnest winter. In her you shall find the
union of womanly deicacy and refinement
with manly energy and decision, womanv
ingenuity and versatility in contrivance, with
manly promptness and efficiency in cxccu-
ton.
While some ladies' found their claim toin-
terest on a delicate ignorance and inability
as TO all the practical parts of life, the only
fear of the New England girl is that there
should be any thing that woman ever did,
which she cannot do, and has not done lit
tie better than ever it was done before. Born
of frugal parents, who, with any other ha-
bits would be poor, she learns early to make
energy and ingenuity supply the place of
wealth. Born in land where all are equal,
no princess could surpass her in the feeling
of self respect Born where the universal
impulse of all is TO rise, there is nothing in
the way of knowledge and accomplishment,
which she does not hope some day to ac-
quire, and even without any advantages of
culture, womanly tact, quickncss of mind,
and ladylike self possession, add the charm
of grace to her beauty. Now if you wish to
find this lady orour fancy, you must not look
for her in our cities, where all the young la
dies speak French, play on the piano, and
arc taught to be as mach like one another as
Their bonnets. If you wish to investigate
the flowers of a country, you do not look
for them under the shade of damask chr.
tains, in the windows of drawing rooms, but
seek them, as they grow free and individual
at the roots of old messy trees, and in the
clefts of over-hanging lodges of rocks, or
forming eyelashes to the thousand bright eye
of merry brooks! So if you would see thiss
Yankee girl as she is, take flight up with
us-up-up-not to the skies, but to the
north of New Hampshire. Alight with us
now in this cosy little nook, where the re-
firing mountains have left space for cuItiya-
ton, and hard hands have been found to i'm.
prove it. There, on the green breasted turf
have been dropped some dozen or so ofdwel-
lings, a meeting house and a school house.
all in very nondescript and unutterable STYLES
of architecture. There, in that village which