The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-21
Country Girls.

Meta Victoria Fuller, in the Ohio Cult
Gator, in sisterly way thus talks to coun.
try girls:
"The farmers daughters are soon TO be
the life as well as the pride Of the country
"a glorious race of women which no other
land can show. see k not TO fatter them;
for before they can become this, they will
have to make earnest efforts of one or two
kinds. There are some who depreciate
their condition, and some who have a false
pride in it, because they demand more con-
sideration than they merit. Awant of in.
telligence uponall the subjects Of the day,
and Of refined education, is no more excu.
sable in country girl than iu a town-bred
girl, in these days of many books and news
papers
"Many girls are discouraged because they
cannot be sent away from home to boarding
schools; but men of superior minds and
knowledge OF the world, would rather have
for wives, women well and properly educa.
ted at hume. And this education can be
had wherever the desire Is not wanting. A
taste for reading does wonders; and an ear
nest thirst after knowledge is almost GER
/ tain to attain sweet draught of the 'Pierian
Spring. There is farmers daughter in the
very room in which am writing, beau
Atiful, refined and intellectual woman, in
whose girhood books were not as plenty as
now land who obtained her fine education
under difficulties which would have discour
uged any but one who had true love for
study.
81 will state why thiulNcounfry girls are
yet to prove the hope of this country The
women in towns and cities are becoming so
universally extravagant, foolish, and fash
ionable, that men are almost in despair Of
getting wives who are not inVaids and Pro-
viding them with what they demand after
they have married them. Unless the young
man has the fortune (good or bad) to be the
inheritor OF wealth, he must spend the best
bloom Of his youth in acquiring enough "to
start upon," us people are expected now
days. Men even in high places, would go
to the country for their choice, if they met
there equal refinement with intelligence
Women are preparing to take noble stand
IN history and they cannot do it ignorance.
"Town girls have the advantage of more
highly polished manners and greater accom-
pishments; but country girls have infinite
Iy more to recommend them as rivals Of
their lair city sisters. They have more true
household knowledge and economy, health,
(and consequently beauty simplicity aatfec-
ton, and freshness OF impulse and thought
When they have cultivated minds, they
have more chances IN their favor for good
sense and real ability, because SO much of
their time is not demanded by the frivolities
OF society. The added lustre of foreign ac-
compIishments could easily be caught by
such mind from very little contact with
the world.
81 would not speak as though our farmers
dau hters were deficient in education. Ma
ny brilliant scholars and talented women
may be found among them-in New Eng
land this is especially so-but would seek
to awaken the ambition of all to become
that admired and favored class which they
ought to be, il they will but unite refined
culture with other most excellent graces.
"a sweet country home, with roses and
honeyonchles trained to climb over it; with
good taste, intelligence and beauty with
in, toll enough to ensure health, and leisure
enough to court acquaintance with books
and flowers, and the loveIness of nature;
with peace, plenty and love, is surely one of
the Paradises which Heaven has left for the
attainment of man."