The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1857-03-13

any inferior in appearance % your elegant
Louisa. The congregation Of the ohuloh
was highly respectable in their appear
,nce. serious and devoted IN their de.
meanor, and attentive to the services.
Through the week had observed the
cheerful activity Of my uncle and his
amily. saw the Urls. sweeping, securing,
ubbinV. shurning. baking, cooking,
spinning. paiditg. and wilhsl End time 70
read aud write. | grew very much
ashamed Of my Ignorance and helplesness,
and resolved to make myself mistress OF
all these useful accomplishments. They
we're all busy the whole day and seemed
to take pleasure in their occupations
Oil could you see their happy faces rs
they sat at work in the evening while uncle
reals aloud: aud then II you could listen
t,o,r mi z hy INNS. Such singing, so
sw, ct. aud 50 clear. and so natural. de.
clare. lurgot my Ill health before | had
been here Two days. There is such pleas-
ure in gardening. When the girls oom.
msnced. put on laced boots as they did
and went 10 work digging beds, trans
planting Aowes', sowing seeds and trim
ming shrubs. We do not fear the dew,
or run for slight shower. Such = gar.
den as we had such variety and abundance
Of flowers aud vegetables, such luxuries
In the form Of peas, bea and Salads
| flatler myself am now quite garden
er; though NJ hrsl did not know a plant
from weed.
have alsu learned to make cheese
No. merely to see il done but To p'riorm
the whole process myself | have become
proof against damp mir and damp fee .
YOU should see us gathering strawberries
in the meadow while tho grass is wet
with dew, or rake lay at the approach OF
thunder uloul /; until the big drops be
| in to fall, aud then running TO the
house amid the bright shower. Oh
there is no life ltss country hie--no
pleasure like the tree exercise and pleas
ant labor Of farmers family. | often
smile AS | recall my impressions OF coun'
t-y life and country people before came
mere. had been taught TO sum up III
hese words all that is degrading. igho'
run. and vulgar. find here, on he con
,rary, all that is ennobling, truly great
a ID excellent. What a poor worthless
mbecile was when left home--only
it to be waited on dressed at enormon
.xpense. and admired for season nov
can not only supprintend house keeping
ou' can bake good bread aud cakes ant
pies, cook meata in the most exUelen
manner, make butter and cheese, an,
pin Hax and wool. Call country peop
lpno,anu Why, there, is not farmer
child of ten years old that might not pity
he deplorable ignorance Of city belle
Ncr are the minds Of country people in
rior in any respect, and most o
hem are we'll cultivated. Do you no
remen. Der those lovely poems in P
, Mrgazins q? and how we wondered VIII
he fair author who signed herself nigh
. be? Well, tits my l'tIle country cousl
, mere. Does not this settle the point n
TO intellect? And then you know tina
most of our men were farmers sous
brought up TO work until they were sen
u college. Apropos do you remembe
he enthusiastic praise with which th'
reverend professor, DR.. D., spoke
Of Young Mr.. Gray. student il
.he seminary. Well that Mr.. Gray
was brothers son. wonder that yoI
did not inquire him out. and invite hin
90 our house. He came home just il
time Of merry harvest. He is handsome
sen4eel, and highly educated; how did h,
surpass any gentleman Of my former ac
uuaintance, aud particularly that ofmin
oirg, delicate Mr.. Lessons, of whom
once iancied myself desperately enamor
ed. and TO whom, in part, WAS owing
nv terrible illn,ss. In part, | say, TO
illness Of mind and body had a gooC
share in producing it. l could hav'
k.elt down to him the first evening o
our acqu linlance. and when the mex
morning he put on linen frook and
large straw hat. and took down his sicle
[ thought him, il possible, more capiva
inc than before What cones nex?-
Wny he says he will be farmer. aud Al
, independent farmer; and dear parents
with your consent, your daughter Loui
~ will be the mistress OF his farm, hi
house and his heart. Do not get angry
= /, ar mother, but come, you ana iatheF
/ aud see how happy we are all here, an
how good. know you will approve
my choice, and bless your aifecIionat
? daughter. LOUISA NJ. HENsHAw.
ala ha I" laug ghed Mr. HenshaT. 4"
,gree with you. wife there is amuse
/ n.nt in that letter. always said yo
wo, ID got your reward for emitting you
rood 6rolher SO numerically. You
! cherished, only daughter WHO was L
marry titled foreigner 1t leas', will Ro'
beoome the younger Mrs. Gray. far
4 mer'swife."
'She shall not indeed. she shall noll'
srisd Mrs. Henshaw 1T would k'
me outright" and she wept bitterly.
! "But. . persisted Mr., H.nshaT. IL ~
isa will do rs she pleasss. She Is he
own mistress and our only child. aud
, doubt not, will be much happier, use
, fuI and respectable womun with nephew
GRAY. than as the wife Of the first lor'
/ in England. We will go and sse then
married"
I'VE will 90 and take our poor deln
/. ded child home" sobbed the lAdy.
..But you know" said the teasing gen