Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1849-05-18
To COnnirY Girls.


Mrs. Swisshelm, who edits the Pittsburgh
Saturday Evening Visitor, gives ii to the girls
about snme Of their shou comings about east.
There is large amount Of good sense in her
suggestions.
You know said that could quilt almost as
fast as two of you. The reason is. | take care
Of my hands. One half Of you are two proud
TO do this. You would not be caught putting a
glove on 10 sweep. or hoe, or weed 10 the gar
den. because you think il would look as if you
wanted to be fine ladies'. If you see any ohe
taking care Of her hands or careful 10 wear
sun-bonneI TO preserve her complexion, you say
she is "proud and stuck up" But il is you who
are proud-Ioo proud to think you require any
care to look nice. You have an idea you look
well enough at anv rate. Sc you jast make
yourself as rough aud coarse as ever you can,
by way Of being independent.-Yo hands
grow as stiff and hard as if you held plow and
swung scylhe, and when you take needle
you can scercely feel it in your fingers. This
is wrong. There are many things which wo-
men ought 10 do, which require their hands to
be soft and pliabIe, and they should be careful
TO keep them so in order to make them useful.
| Every woman who lives in the country should
knit herself pair Of wooden gloves, with long
| fingers closed at the tobs-no mits, to LEI the
fingers get hard. There should be piece of
ribbed work al the wrist TO make them stay on.
When you use your hoe. rake or broom, put
IN your gloves-when you take hold Of a skill
ct. pot or kiule handle, take cloth to keep
your hands from being scared and hardened.
When you wash clothes or dishes, do not have
water so hot as TO feel unpleasant. Many girls
sca!d their hands unl they can put them into
water almost boiling. Such hands are unfit to
use needle or pin.. They are not so good TO
hold a babe or dress wound. Take care of
your hands, and do not forget your faces.
have seen so many country girls who., at sixteen
had compilations like alabasicr. and al twenty
six their faces would look like runnet bag
that had hung six weeks in the chimney corner.
One reason of this is, they do not wear bon
net 10 protect them from the sun. Another rea-
son is the habit they have of baking their faces
before wood fire. have seen women stand
before great roasting fire and cook, until |
thought their brains were as well siewed as the
chickens; and they would get so used to il they
would make no attempt TO shield their heads
from The heat. Nay, they would sit down in
the evening and bake their faces by the hour;
and This is one of The reasons whv American
women grow old. witered and wrinkIed, fifteen
years before their time.
But another and the greatest reason is, your
diet. People in this country live too we'll, and
eat TOO much hot bread and meat. Country
people usually eat richer food than those who
live in the cities, and that is reason why with
all their fresh air. their average age is little
greater than that Of city folks. Thousands Of
beautiful blooming country girls, make old SAL
low faced women Of themselves before they are
thirty by drinking coffee smoking tobacco and
ealing hol bread. They shorten their lives by
these pracuceS about rs much as city ladies with
their fashionable (Jliies. | do not know what
you think about it. girls, but think it is about
as much u sin for women TO get old, brown,
wlihered faces, by eating too much, as it is for
men 10 get red noses by drinking too much.
Very few people think il is disgrace to have
bilious fever; but would as leave the doctor
would tell me that was drunk as that | was bill
ious. The one would come from drinking too
much, The other from eatiug 100 much; and
where is the difference! All this is very seri-
Gus matter, for il effects health an life; and the
reason why ! talk about your complexion in
speaking OF it, is, that every body loves 10 look
we'll whether they will acknowledge it or not
Now people cannot look well unless they are
well; and no one can be we'll very long who
does not try to take care Of herself. The wo-
man who roasts her head at the fire, disorders
her blood, brings on headaches, Injuries her
health, and makes her face look like piece of
leather; when sheswallows hot coffee, hot bread,
greasy vicIuals and strong pickles, she destroys
her stomach, rots her teeth, shorens her life,
and makes herself 100 ugly for any use, except
soaring the crows off the corn.
True RIcHEs.-The true wealth Of a com.
muni.y, is its labor, its productive labor. A
mai is not the richer for houses, which he can.
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