Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-11-26

COUNTRY GIRLs.-Mrs. Victoria Fuller, in
the Ohio Cultivator, in sisterly way, thus
talks to country girls
The farmers daughters are soon to be the
life, as well as pride of the country glori.
Gus race of women which no other land cal
show. l seek not to iattcr them for befort
they can become this they will have to make
earnest efforts ofone or two kinds. There ART
some who depreciate their condition, and somt
who have a false pride in it, because they de
mand more consideration than they merit. A
want of intelligence upon all subjects, and Ol
refined education, is no more to be excused in
q country than town bred girl, in this age
of books and newspapers.
Many girls are discouraged because they
cannot be sent away from home to boarding
schools; but men OF superior minds and knowi-
edge Of the world would rather have for wives
women well and properly educated at home.-
And this education can be had wherever the
desire is not wanting. taste for reading
does wonders, and an earnest thirst after
knowledge is almost certain to attain sweet
draught OF the "pierian spring. There is a
farmers daughter in this very room in which
am writing, beautiful refined and intellect
uAl woman, in whose girlhood, books were not
as plentiful as now, and who gained her finO ed
ucation under circumstances whichwouli have
discouraged any one but one who had as true
a love Of study.
will state why think the country girls
are yet to prove the hope of the country. The
women OF towns and cities are becoming so
universally unhealthy, and as almost univer-
sally extravagant, foolish and fashionable, that
men are almost IN despair of obtaining wives
, wno are not lhyalids, and providing them with
what they demand after they have married
mem; Unless the young man has the fortune
Sgood or BAD to be the inheritor OF wealth, he
must spend the best bloom of his youth to ac-
quiPe enough to start upon,h as people are
expected to begin nowadays. Many even in
hlgn places would go to the country Tor their
snoiee II they mettheirequals in refinement and
lnteilgence' Women are preparing TO take a
hsole stand In history, and they cannot do /,
In ignorance.
Town girls have the advantage Of more high.
~ polished manners and greater accomplish,
nehts Dut country girls have infinitely more
recommend them as rivals of their fair city
SISTERS They have more truth, household
knowledge and economy, health, and conse
qnently beauty, simplicity affection, nn'
freshness of impulse and thought. When the
nave cultivated minds there are more chance
In their favor for good sense ard real ability
because so much is not demanded by the iriy
olities of society. The added lustre Of to
eign accomplishments could easily be caugl
by such mind from very little contact wit
the music,
would not speak as though our farmer
daughters were deficient in education. Mar
brilliant scholars and talented women may
found among them in Now England this
especially SO but would seek to awake Il
ambition of all to become that admired an
favored class which they ought to be, if the
will but unite refined culture with their exec
Iont graees.
A sweet country-house, with roses and hoi
Sysuckles trained to climb over it, with goc
taste, beauty and intelligence within IL
enough to insure health, anG leisure to con
acquaintance with books and flowers, and til
loneliness of nature, with peace, plenty al
love, Is surely one of the paradises whiC
Heaven has lett for the attainment of men.