The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-19
From the Home journal.
The Western Young lady.

The western young lady is cross between
the southern and the eaStern--the intelligence
of the one, and the grace Of showing it of the
other, with the spice of half dozen European
nations thrown in. and fearleSsneSs and dash
which belong only to II rearing west of the
lakes and Alleghanies The western young
ladys papa is lawyer, or doctor, or mer-
chant lie is an "old settler" of course for
! he came when the country was quite new,
a dozen or fifteen years since, or perhaps long
err for in some cases the western young lady
is native. lie had made fortune direct
. ly in the iiouriShing city of COlumbiaville. by
the rise of lots and lost it soon after in an
unlucky speculation in wheat. pulled up
stakes and went to PrairictOwn, made anotll-
or io! tune there, went into banking and was
immensely rich: bank brolc--lost everything,
and started a company 10 found the most
beautiful city OF auwaupOonah. where there
is an immense watcr-power. and farming
country of unrivalled fertility Here as he
| informs his eastern friends. he has acquired
IL handsome competence and has settled down
for life, that is for the next five years. In the
mean time, Ellcn-or as she writes it, and her
Young friends call her "Nelie. has been
growing up and educating. All her respected
n papaS pecuniary mutations. astonishinGly,
have not effected her in the least. \ western
man relgiOusly vcnerates the text 'He who
. prOvideth not for his own household is worse
than an intidel.'' Miss Nellie has never lack
ed her piano. nor her music or drawing lessons
nor her hat and cloak from New York.
When sixteen, she was sent east to be ''tnish-
ed at II fashionable school. She came home
in Il year or two, with some very remarkable
views in Switzerland, and two or three aston
ished looking old castles, perched on inaccess-
able ciags, done in oil by herself all the
latest polkas and operas, aed a wardrobe got
up ''regardless of expense. OF course she
ut once becomes the belle of WauwoupoOnah.
and is captivating sort of n girl. nal gre the
Ipolkas and the castles.
She has not Travelled in Europe, but she has
been all her life travelling in her own country,
learning human nature; and knowledge OF
human nature gives tact. and tact gives man
ner and the faculty of making ones self agree
able. Our western Young lady has seen all
sorts of people, and is at home anywhere-in
the log tavern or in the St. Nicholas. She
has been around the Lakes score Of times
when child. OF late years she goes East by
Railroad, and thinks 10 more of going down
to New Y Ork to hear Grsi, or Julien than the
fair New Yorker would of going down to Cas-
tie Garden. Educated AMID a state of society
changing every day. constant only in its rest
less march onward she partakeS of its anma-
ton. its energy. and its fearless frankncSs and
is never astounded at anything, unless, indeed,
when she goes East, that people should remain
poor, when all they have to do to become rich
is to go West and speculate. If the Western
young lady has fault, perhaps it is that she
is little eXtravagant; but she believes that
money was made to spend. If papa loses his
fortune, he has only to make another. She
was educated with that idea. She has always
been accustomed to see her good papa, when
hc had made good speculation, spend it all
At once in taking his family journey East,
where he bought everything that was cxpen-
|ive for them, and astonished all his old neigh
oorS with an account of his city lots banks and
railroads. OF course Nelly IS in time engaged.
Harry, her fance, is clerk, or law student,
without penny beyond his salary. Docs
Nellie, therefore, think it necessary to learn
economy? Does her mamma begin to teach
her housewitcry, and impress upon her the ne
ressity Of saving? DO Harry and Nellie to-
scther talk over the long years before they can
be united-how he has his fortune to make
slowly -how step by step they must climb the
adder: No such thing. Those ideas never
.rossed the lakes. Very Anticipated notions
are they at the best Altogether too old ia
'honed to travel and fit only for the barren
Fegions of Plymouth Rock. No, Harry ex-
poets to gain the top of the ladder at one leap.
lie has some lots bought on credit which will
snevitably treble in three months. He is also
golng to buy some wheat and send it East,
and his uncle is about to loan him some mon
" to invest. Nellie looks forward to her
marriage about six months hence, and Harry
expects before that time to be able to support
her in the "stye to which she been accustom-
ID and the probability is that he will be able.
though in six months more he may b, poor
again, and again waiting. like Mr.. Micaber,
for something to turn up. Western people
ire always expecting something to turn up
md. unlike Mr.. Micawber. they are very sell
lOm disappointed.