Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-12-12
Country Girls.

Mrs. Victoria Fuller, in the Ohio Cultiva.
tor in sisterly way, thus talks to country
girls:
The farmers daughters are soon to be the
life, as well as pride OF the country; a glo-
rious race of woman which no other land can
show. ! seek not to fatter them !. for before
they can become this they will have to make
earnest efforts of one or two kinds. There
are some who depreciste their condition, and
some who have false pride in it, because
they demand more consideration than they
merit. A want of intelligence upon all snb-
jects, and Of refined education, is no more to
be excused in country than town bred girl
in this age of books and newspapers.
Many girls are discouraged because they
cannot be sent away from homo 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 car be had
wherever the desire is not wanting. A
taste for reading does wonders, and an earnest
thirst after knowledge is almost certain to
attain a sweet draught Of the "pierian SPRING"
room in which am writing, beautiful re-
fined and intellectual woman, in whose girl.
hood, books were no: as plentiful as now, and
who gained her fine education under circum-
stances which would have discouraged any
one but one who had as true love of study.
l 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 so almost uni.
yersally aztravagant foolish aid fashionable,
that men, are almost in Ges air of obtaining
wives who are not invalids, and providing
them with what they demand after they have
married them. Unless the young man has
the fortune (good or bad) to be the inheritor
OF wealth, he must spend the best bloom of
his youth to acquire enough to "start upon,"
as people are expected to begin nova. days.
Many even in high places would 20 to the
country for their choice if they met their equal
refinement and intelligence. Women are
preparing to take noble stand in history,
and they cannot do it in ignorance
Town girls have the advantage of more
highly polished manners and greater accom-.
Plishments but country girls have infinitely
more to recommend them as rivals of their
fair city sisters. They have more truth,
household knowledge and economy, health,
and consequently beauty, simplicity, affection
aud freshness Of impulse and thought. When
they have cultivated minds there are more
chances in their favor for good sense aud real
ability because so much is not demanded by
the frivolties of society. The added lustre
OF foreign accomplishments could easily be
caught by such mind from avery little con.
tact with the music,
| would not speak as though our farmers
daughters were defcien. in education, Many
brilliant scholars and talented women may
be found among them; in New England this
is especially SO but would seek to awake
IL "a N 4 al. IL.
and favored class which they ought TO be, if
they will but unite refined culture with their
excellent graces. .s
A sweet country house, with roses and
honey y-slckles trained to climb over it, with
good taste, beauty and Intelligence within
toll enough to insure health, ard leisure to
court acquaintance with books and flowers,
and the lovelness Of nature, with peace, plen-
ty aud love, is surely one of the paradises
which Heaven has left for the attainment of
man.