Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-09
The Women OF Maine.

Mrs. Stowe shows herself an agreeable
letter writer as well as fascinating fiction
list. She has lately been travelling over
what she terms the "glorious mountains of
Maine, aud gives US, through the National
Era, an account of hcrjourneyings. Speak
ing of the habits aud customs of the Maine
women, she saysl:
You 90 into a plain farm house, where
the furniture aud all the uppurtenunces re-
| tam the most primitive slnplicity-but he
not surprised il you see Latin, Greek and
German books lying OH the table. You look
! inquiringy, and urc told perhaps of u Ger
tain Mary Ann Ur Marie, who is keeping
school up at Urnbagog, or some other i'm
! possible out-Oi-lhe-wHy place, whose books
| these arc. She has long done using them
she got them when she first begun now she
has leh them Tor Cynthia or Louisa, or some
other fair sGrccssUr IN the family line, who
is equally hardy and energetic in her attacks
upon the tree OF knowledge. Ten TO one,
you get glimpse OF said Cynthia, who
proves a slender, blue eyed girl, trinity dres-
sed, with pair of very pretty earrings in !
her ears, and an mir Of quiet composure, aud
sur0r fare which shows you that she is
princess OF the blood in her own regiOns.--
You talk with her, aud find she has a mind !
as sharp aud bright aud keen as ono of the |
quartz crystals among her own mountains.
she has been TO the academy in the neigh
boring town. She has II fancy for drawing,
and nay bc she shows you crnyon head or
landscape, which you did not expect to see
Just ihcn-shc wishes she could get some
where where she could learu more about il
she has "A cousin who paints III oils-slc
thinks perhaps, after she has taught u quarter
or two, she will save enough to get 10 Port
land, aud take lessons OF u master.
One is struck with the intellectual activity
of the Maine women, wherever hc travels
among them. A friend of mine told me tue
other day that in one OF the towns where
he was visiting, in the clergymans family,
he was surprised TO find the walls decorated
with oil paintings which he thought II quite
! beyond The means of his friend 10 have pur-
! chased.
"Wherc did you get these paintings;" he
asked.
"Oh, these my wife painted them" was
the reply.
The same gentleman relates that at another
time, when Hospitality entertained IN an OBJ
sciire settlement, lar out IN the woods OF
Maine, being struck with the domestic talents
and agreeable manners OF his hostess, he
entered HIto some conversation with her.
Knowing that he was CONNECTED with the
| collegiate institution la Brunswick, she in
qured with great interest after young
gentleman there, adding as an apology Tor
her inqulslliyeness, " / leel interested IN lhut
young man, for fitted him for college"
My friend OF course, thought she alluded
to some such fitting rs knitting his stockings
making his shirls--and made a remark to
that effect.
"Oh no." said the lady, composedly, 81
mean that taught him Greek aud Latin
aud so on, aud Ot course | should wish q
hear that he was doing we'll" 1t seemed tc
he quite an OF course ufliir to her, nothing
. TO what she could do. eau assure you, by
the bye, that these women are yeoman house
keepers, aud that you will never taste the
: Latin or Greek in sour bread or bad butter
A, or see the drawing aud painting looking ou
D of holes in dresses.
The iuct Is, that sterile soil and n hnrsl
, climate, though moi good for growing any
thing else, are first rate for raising men ana
, ieomen; and men and womea, in the full
emphatic sense of the word, are the STAPLE
products OF Name. The long cherries,
winters here are powerful educators, boil
, physically and morally--physica in the
amount of oxygen and vitality which they
force into the system, intellectually in The
leisure which they force OH one for intelec.
tual pursuits. ApropOs of the winters,
will relate an andcdole which heard in my
village under the mountains, which might