Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-12
Mis1rIlaneous.
A COMPLIMENT TO FARMER GIRLS.

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Simon Brown, the noble editor of the Now Eng
land Farmer has been ruralizing among our fair
cousins in Vermont, and writes of them and the
farm girls generally in manner and form following
TO which we subscribe frCm personal knowledge
aud we may say amen, thereto.
No aspect Of agricultural life is more cheering
than that found in the sentiments Of the young
women Of the country, where it has been my good
fortune to meet them. There are two phases II
ruraTiife, widely different, one of which too many
Of our iriohds have rarely seen that which pre-
walls is hard and apparent necessity Tor unremit
ting toil-days Of toll which eventually brings
nights of grief, premature age, disafection with
life, and too often, early death. / say apparent ne.
cessity, for | do net think il "A real, iBexorable ne.
cessity, for that would be equal to a doom upon
the race. which would make life burdensome if not
intolerable. We make this necessity ourselves, by
our artificial wants Dur reni wants are lew, and
generally easily supplied. When We allow our de-
sires to run riot and revel in xtravaganges,-to CO.
vet larger herds and broader lands, to outstrip in
splendor our neighbors' equippage or furniture, or
eur(cit on costly or unwhoIesme dointies, then we
create wants that are not congenial to our natures
and hurtful alike to our moral and phys
ical being, 1t is the cultivation OF such wants,
these unsubstantial and dclusive dreams, that give
distaste to the homeiy, inSigoiating, and perma-
nent charms Of country life and rural pursuits
These cause the desulaton Of paternal homes,and
make grey hairs go sorrowing. to the grave. In my
intercourse win Tue WOrlui j Hnu muCn less VI III
sentiment with young women than young men, they
are content to stay at homo ard occupy the soil
if their brothers would remain they look at theil
condition with morsl rational v~iews,and coulC
they fix them in the minds of the young men, there
would be fewer hearts broken by separation, few
G. crimes impelled by poverty and want, and lest
starvation, vretchedness and disease. in oul
crowded and fostering cities. The con
verse of this would be a highly cultiva.
ted soil, dotted with fresh and cheerful homes
whose hearts would be lighted with warmth and
love, and %populeus and thrift villages would spring
up, with Churches and School House and Lyceums
and q natural and wholesome traffic ensue, all
tending to that equality of condition which alone
can afford permanent prosperity ard happiness to
any community.
1 feel it q duty to say that / find a large proper
ton of the young women favoring this condition
of things they are willing to remain upon the
farm SO long MS brothers will stay, and society is
made up of two sexes instead Of one. On their
part they are fitted to adorn society-are usually
well educated, read papers and current books, and
are often acquainted with classical literature they
are quick to catch the manners living as they
rise," and prove that Paris is but a step from their
rural homes. Ilonitons, and talmas and crinolines
rustic on the hills or by their crystal streams with
more unaffected grace than the dusty pave of Bos-
ton and New York, while their fair occupants are
buoyant with health and elastic spirits, and fitted
to dignity and bless existence. Such should be-
come the mothers of our land. In all my rambles
l find parents childless upon large farms, deplor-
ing the absence Of sons at California or the West,
and the once productive acres and tidy buildings,
neglected and going to decay. | said to the only
child remaining at home of q large and prosperous
family, 'the farm has its advantages and charms
as we'll as the city, and there are less temptations
to err.'' 'Yes said Rebecca, ''the farm has its at,
fractions, but it lacks society-it is a life of con-
fnement, too the dairy demands constant atten'
ton, and hard work, and hired men are sometimes
difficult to please, after we have labored c~arefully
to provide tor them. Society is broken and meagrt
the young men flee to the city or wander to distan
lands, leaving the young women in charge of th'
farm, and to soothe and comfort the declining day
of their parents" Such was the language of
highly intelligent, affectionate and noble womau
and it represents the sentiments of q large class
Who has eloquence and persuasion sufficient to q,
rest the attention Of young men aDd convince ther
that in leaving the home of their childhood, the
leave privileges ond advantages already establishe
which it may require a life Of labor to acquire i
in distant lundsW