Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1857-01-29
SfEiisteLLallsaas.
FARMERs DAUGHTERS.


A fair correspondent of the Ohio
CultiuatOr addresses the following sersi-
bic remarks to the girls Of our rural
districts:
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. seek
not to fatter them; for beforethey can
become this they viii have to make
earnest efforts of one or two kinds
There are some who depreciate their
condition, and some who have false
pride in it, because they demand more
consideration than they merit. Awant
of intelligence upon all subjects Of the
day, and refined education, is no more
excusible in a country than in a town
bred girl, in this age of many books
and many newspapers.
Many girls are discouraged because
they cannot be sent away from home
toboarding schools; butmen Of superior
minds and knowledge of the world,
would rather have for wives, women
well and properly educated at home.
Al taste for reading does wonders, and
an earnest thirst for knowledge is
almost certain to attain sweet
draught Of the SIBERIAN spring.
There is farmers daughter in this
very room in which I am writing, a
beautiful, refined and intellectual Wo-
man, in whose girlhood books were not
so plentiful as now, and who gained
her fine education under difficulties
which would have discouraged any one
but onewho has as fond Above for study.
Twill state why I think the country
girls are yetto prove the hope Of the
country. The women in town and
cities are becoming so universally un-
healthy and almost universally exIrava-
giant, foolish and fashionable, that men
are almost in despair Of obtaining
wives who are not invalids, and of pro-
eidina them with What they want after
kher8 have ranrricll thcnn Dnless the
IIodhg ma8 has tho fortma (gooa or
kh5 70 be the inheritoF Of lfealtll, he
1 Iaust spend tho best bloom of bis youth
in acquiring enough to "start upon,
as people are expected to begin now-a-
days. Men, even in high places, would
90 to the country for their choice, il
/ they met there equal refinement anC
intelligence. Women are preparing
/ to take noble stand in history, anc
they cannot do it in ignorance.
4 Town girls have, the advantage 0.
more highly polished manners an(
greater accomplishments; that country
girls haveinfnitely more toreeommenC
them as rivals of their fair city sisters
They have more truth, householt
knowledge and economy, health
(and consequently more beauty
simplicity, affection, and freshness O
Impulse and thought When they have
cultivated minds, there are more
chances in their favor for good sense
and real ability, because somuch is mo-
demanded by the friyolities Of society
The added lustre Of foreign accom-
1 plishments could easily be caught by
such a mind from very little contaci
with the world.
j I would not speak as though oul
! farmers daughters are deficient in ed.
{ ucation. Many brilliant scholars an(
talented women are found among them
in New England this is especially SO
hut I would seek to awaken the am
bition of all to become that admire,
| and favored class which they ought t
be, if they viii unite refined cultur,
with their most excellent graces.
"A sweet country home, with rose
and honeysuckles trained To climb owe
,lit; with good taste, intelligence an,
beauty within, toll enough to court ac
: quaintance with books and flowers, an
t the loneliness of nature with peace
9 plenty and love, is surely one Of tn
t paradises which heaven has left for tn
t attainment of man.---E.rcldnge.