Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-05-15
(From the Morning Star.
Jessie Smith, the Farmers Daughter.

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"Mother, said Jessie, at the close
the haying season mentioned in our las
"how old are you:'
"Thirty-fve." replied her mother.
"Well. you look as though you wer
seventy five, and no wounder. No, l.
nerer be farmers wife, repeated tn
child, for-l cannot tell the hoo many
ieM time-during this haying season
The mother smiled and said, 80 well
child. you don't know what you'll be.
"bu, ! do, though rplied the hid
''and I'd like to know when Mary an,
| are ever to get to school,"
You shall go now, haying is over II
try and get along withou: YOU
Thus few short years passe on
Jessie had grown a pretty young lady
with we'll developed intellec and pen.
etra,inS jud dIment. She saw more than
ever the hard lot Of her mother. ard
more than ever resolved she would never
marry such portion. She wanted her
father to send her away to schoo. He
fused and grumblcd any amount at the
expense, but finally yielded to the i'm
portunitics of her mother. and concluded
to send her one term That was enough
for girls, he said !; they'd have to go to
rocking cradles and doing honsework as
soon as they married, and he laughed
merri.y at the happy idea.
Jessie llushed to- hu. added, in an
nler tone. that when ste rocked cradles
aid every thing else, too, she suesse. esh' d
know it,"
She went to school. studied dill liSentl,
and made rapid improvement. She
wanted to 90 again. Il t her flther sntd.
No no Jessie, you know en0ugh -.
Young farmer Jon@s has asked for your
hand. and l want You to settle down. =
Poor Jessie the hot blood rushed over
her brow. neck and face, and then a
qnitkly reccedcd leaving daathly palur
She tried to speak. but the words choked
her, AMI covering her face wi b h hands
she burst into tears.
The old man was ncttled at this. for
it did not ausur well for the fulflm nj
Of his wishes.
By-,nd-by jessie grew calmcr, and
her f,ther wanted to know if she had
made up her mind, never drean g she
would dare to disobey him, "She told
hn she could not marry Joaes she did
not like him and was beside fully de
tcrmined never to be farmers wife.
with the prospect performing the same
amount Of labor her mother always had
DONE
The old man was inlignlnt; "rowed
she should marry Jones. or have
home in his house.
"She would leave it.
Where to so
She would go West, under the
Society, as teacher.
mo she wouldn't either; for he wa
bound to do as he pleaselin everything
he could If she must 60 West. she
woulln'. go like a bessars brat; he
would give her money to pay her ez-
pcnscs."
And thus Jessie became school teach
er in the pretty Village Of O-in
Iowa.
Jessie liked it. She liked the fresh
ness and newncss of Western life
She loved the broad flower-yemmed pral
rics and deep creeks. She liked. too
the enterprise of the people. There
were many things which she did not
like but she had sense enough to per
cGve that these were incidental to new
She liked her occupation as
teacher and quite adopted the State as
her future home, We copy on extract
from letter to her mother, after an alb
seace Of two years
=. Western women do
no. work as hard as with you. They
usually farm it here upon greater scale,
and can afford help much better than
with you. Beside, they bny their cloth
ing ready made, while YOU have all the
family sewing added to your other autics
| don't know but what | may be FAR
mcr's wife after all but shan this year
On the whole, | don't think | ever will;
for Judge Cranch lets his sfarm to tenants,
and attends to the duties Of his office
himself.
We will give few lines from her letter
to her sister Mary:
Yes Mary, couldn't
give up ALA maidcn's rom nee and day
dreams, to settle down with a man !
did not and never could love, to be
what | alwaws vowed nsrcr would be
"A farmers wife. had my beau IDEAL
of manhood, and Jones did not come up
to it. had liked to failed and been a
farmers wife after all. and am so now. ii
you are pleased to call me such, for my
husband orns a splendid farm, but lets /,
TO others.
Jessie Cranch, however suits me
much better than Jessie Jones And
I'll be happy to receive you in my pie 'a'-
ant western home, where in.tcad OF do
ing all the work indoors and part out.
| am provided with sufficitnt hel lp; and
though my husband fails of layins-hy as
much money as he would if performed
it all, he has healthier, happier home,
with a wife who is not slave.
WINNIE WATERS.
MA gentleman once said he should