Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-06-14
From he Saturday Visi,er
Letters to Country Girls.
BY MRS. SwISSHELM.

Well positively, girls, you are too much
trouble. do believe girls we're created on
purpose to annoy susceptible young gentle
men and nervous old ladies Here, Mag
has gone off visiting, aud left me to keep
house whole week, with nobody but Mary
for help; she would rather make a "pIay
house" than wash dishes. Well, have
been very industrious, and yesterday was of
tce day When | went there, what was
waiting for me amongst the rest Of my
troubles but the longest, sauciest letter
" from Country girl" 1t is too bad
and If the world continues getting worse at
this rate, the people must all move out of it,
Just to think the way girls will talk to old
folks 1t was not so in my young days p
This Miss Sauce-boX hints that she can
quilt as fast as can, and banters me to 90
all the way to Mahonlng to try. shall not
do any such thing, Anniss, for if you have
taken such good care Of your hands, may
be your fingers are pretty supple. But mark
you, your old cotton gloves are not nearly
so good as woolen ones you had knit your
self SO, you have hoe and a sun-bonnet
have you aud do not bake your face be-
fore wood fire, but use stove? All We
ry good so far You think the complexion
OF the girls in your region very fine and
fresh, do you! And you are neither bilious
nor nervous; and drink your coffee twice
a day and tea once ' But you hint the old
ladies there answer my description as to
being wrinkled aud sallowl Well, pretty
Annlss, how long will it be before you are
as old and ugly as any of them ! Your
health and complexion may endure your d.
ct for years; but sooner or later they must
yield AT thirty, women should be in their
prime but how many do you know at that
age, who look as well as they did at eigh-
teen I! They drank their coffee and ate
their hot cake as you do; and perhaps no
one could have persuaded them their diet
was injurious. How many coffee drinkers
do you know who never have headache
Two out of every three have it and take
cup of coffee to relieve it, on the homG-.
pathlc principle, that what creates disease
will cure ii. You may drink your coffee
and eat your rich victuals, and still your
complexion is fresh and your health fine for
some years but after a while other folks
will think of you as you do of those old
ladies now, who, you think, would suit We
ry well IN corn field to scare crows. Most
likely any of them looked as well at your
age as you do; and felt as well, too. Your
time is coming. Did you never observe the
brilliant compilations, beautiful teeth and
full forms of Irish women when they first
come to this country? But they are not
long here until they look like the rest of US,
aud people blame it on the climate; but it
is not half so much that as the diet 1t is
the gornandlzng ofthe people in this coun-
try which makes them the sallow-faced
creatures they are? Whenever | hear of
ievers and prevalent sickness in some fiue
country where there is abundance of pure
air aud water, with no swamps to create dis
ease, l ask the price of provisions. If tur-
kles can he bought for twenty-five cents,
chickens for ftp, eggs for three cents per
dozen, &c. | am at no loss to know where
the sickness comes from There is Nor
gan county i'll Ohio had friend who liv-
ed there, aud there was no end to the ac-
counts OF black tongue, erysIpelas, lung fe-
Vers, bilious levers aud sickness without ces-
satlon. 1t is "a billy country well drained,
land not very rich, and pure limestone wa
ter; but It was too far from market for the
surplus provisions to be carried off, and so
WV PSSP'S "'o thcui, anu iNCu uuuci tHO
doctors hands continually. But here in
Butler county where the birds carry KNAPP
sacks" have seen set down for supper for
half dozen persons, a large turkey, two
pairs of chickens, big roast of veal, a
great dish of ham, and Clipped beef, piles
Of bread and rusk as white as snow drift
hot biscuits and flannel cakes two great
pound cakes and pair of sponge cakes
two dishes Of sugar crackers aud as many
doughnuts-mashed turnips and potatoes
stewed fruit of different kinds with preserves
and jel!les past my calculation-oh yes !
aud dish of moulded rice TO be eaten with
! cream and snnar and the ,vhnln nlixInra