The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-05-06
Country Girls.

Meta Victoria Fuller, in the Ohio
Cultivator, in sis.orly way, thus talks
to country girls =
The farmers daughters arc soon to
be the life as well as the pride of the
couutry-a glorious race of women,
which no other land can show. l seek
not to fatter them, for before they can
become this, they will have to make earn
est efforts Of one or two kinds.-There
are some who deprecatc their condition,
and somo who have a false pride in it,
because they demand more consideration
than they merit. A want of intelligence
upon all subjects of the day, aud of
refined education, is no more in coun
try than a townbred girl, in this ag, Of
many books and newspapers.-M Many
girls arc discouraged because they can
not be sent away from home to boarding
schools but men Of superior minds and
knowledge of the world, would rather
have for wives women we'll and properly
educated at home. And this education
can be had wherever the dcsira is not
wanting. a taste for reading does won
ders, and an earnest thirst after knowl.
edge is almost certain to attend a sweet
Iraught Of the Piarin SPRING" Thore
is a farmers daughter in this very room
which | am writing, a beautiful, refined
aud intellectual woman. in whoso girl
hood books werc not as plentiful as now,
and who gained her fine education under
difficulties which would have discouraged
any one but ono who had as true a love
for study.
will state why think the country
girls are yet TO prove the hope of the
country The women in towns and cit
les are becoming almost so universally
uuhealthy. and 80 almos. universally ex.
,travagaut. foolish and fashionable, that
men are almost in despair Of obtaining
wives who are not invalids, and of pro.
viding them with ahat they demand. af.
ter they have married them. UGless tho
young man has the fortune (good or bad)
to be the iBheritor of wealth, he must
spend the best bloom Of youth in &C.
qurng enough to start upon" as peo.
pie arc expected TO begin nova days
Meu, even, in high places would 60 to
the country for their choice if they met
their cqral refinement and intelligence.
Women are preparing to take noble
stand in history and they can not do it in
iguorcuce. Town girls have the advan.
tage of moro highly polished manners
and greater accomplishments but coun.
try girls have infinitely moro to recon.
mend them as rivals Of their fair city
SISTERS They have more truth, house.
hold knowledge aud economy, health
(Nnd consequently bcauty) simplicity,
tflec!ion, and freshness OF impulse and
thought When they have cultivated
minds, there arc more chances in their
favor for goHd sense and real ability, be-
cause SO much is not demanded by the
frieolitios Of society. The odded lus,re
of foreign accomplishments could be ca
silly caught by such mind from a very
little contact with the world.
would not speak as though our far
mer'S daughters were deficient in educa-
tion. Many brilliant scholars and taIen.
ted women may be found among the m
in New England this is especially so
but | would seek to awaken the ambition
Of all to become that admired and favor
cd class which they ought to be, if they
will but unite refined culture with their
most excellent graces, a sweet country
homo, with roses aud honey sucklcs
trained to climb over it-with good taste,
Intelligence and beauty within, toll Q.
nough TO insure health, and leisure
enough to court acquaintance with books
and flowers, aud the loyciness of nature;
with peace, plenty, aud love, is surely
one Of the paradisas which heaven has
left for tue attention Of man