Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-10-02

them There are two phases in rural life,
widely different one of which too many OF
our friends have rarely seen that which pre-
walls is the hard, and apparent necessity for
daily, unrcmitting toil-days of toll which
eventually bring nights Of grief premature
age disafiection with life. and too often early
death. ! say apparent necessity, for do not
think IL a real incxorabe necessity, for that
would be equal to a doom upon the race.
which would make life burdensomc. if not in
tolerabe We make this necessity ourselves.
/ by our artificial wants our real wants are
few, and generally, easily supplied when
we allow our desires to run riot and rovol in
/ extrayagancos, to covct larger herds and
broader lands, TO outstriT in splcndor our
ncighbor's equipage or furniture. OF surlcit on
costly and unwholesomo daintics, when we
create wants that are not congenial TO our ma
lures, and hurtful alike to our moral and ply
sical being 1t is the cultivation of such
wants. these unsubstantial and delusive
dreams, that give distaste to the homely, in
vigorating, and permanent charms Of country
{ life aud -ural pursuits. These cause the des-
: olation Of paternal homes, and make gray
/ hairs go sorrowing to the grave. In my in
tercoursc with the world. find much less OF
this sentiment with young women than with
young men they are content TO stay at home
and occupy the soil, if their brothers would
remain they look at their condition with
more rational views, and could they fix them
( in the minds Of the young men, there would
be fewer hearts broken by separation fewer
crimes impollcd by poverty and want, and less
starvation, wrctchcdnoss and disease in our
crowded and fostering cities theconverse of
this would be a highly cultivated soil, dotted
with fresh and cheerful homes, whose hcarths
would be lighted with warmth and love, and
populous and thrifty villages would spring up
with churches, and school-housos, and lyce-
ums, and natural and wholesome traffic en-
sue, all tending TO that equality Of condition
which alone can afford permanent prosperity
and happiness to any community.
feel it duty to say, that | find large
proportion Of the young women favoring this
condition Of things they are willing TO re-
main upon the farm so long as brothers will
stay, and society is made mp of two sexes in
stead of one. On their part, they are fitted
Co adorn society.-are usually well educated
read papers and current books. and are often
acquainted with classical literature they arc
quick 20 catch the manners living as they
rise, and prove that Paris is but a step from
their rural homes Honitons and talmas and
crinolines. rustic on the hills or by their crys-
tai streams with more unaffected grace than
on the dusty pave of Boston and New York
while their fair occupants are buoyant with
health and elastic spirits and fitted 10 dignity
and bless existence. Such should become the
mothers of our land. In all my rambles
find aged parents left childish upon large
farms. deploring the absence of sons at Cali
fornia OF the West. and the once productive
acres and tidy buildings, neglected and going
to decay. | said to the only child remaining
at home, Of a large and prosperous family,
-" the farm has It's advantages and charms as
well as the city and there are less temptations
80 e-rn - Nes." said Rohecra .. the farm
has its attractions. but it lacks society-it is
a life of confinement. too the dairy demands
constant attention, and hard work, and hired
men are sometimes difficult to please after we
have laborod carefully to provide for them.
Society is broken and meagro, the young men
fee TO the city, or wander to distant lands.
leaving the young women in the charge of the
farm. and TO sootho and comfort the declining
days of their parents" Such was the lam
guage of highly intelligent. afectonate and
noble woman, and it represents the sentiments
of a large class. Who has oloquence and
persuasion, sufficient to arrest the attention
of young men, and convince them that in
leaving the homes Of their fathers and of their
own childhood, they leave privileges and ad-
vantages alaeady established which it may
take life Of labor to acquirein in distant lands I!
But bless me, what long homily l have
written upon the fair. and not the agricultur-
al fair, either ] must commit this to the
mail. and give you some account of the sec
ond day of the Exhibition in another letter.
Truly yours, SIMON BRowN.