The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-02-09
EBENSBURG, PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY g. 1860

NJ 10 De SEEN" She won't let Bob and
DICK run about bare-footed, for she saws
they look like beggars She has written
their names In their spelling books Rob
Cte and Dichie, and written hers -Naacie
Sn3yth. She says she would rather not
eat with the servants-that is our hired
man and woman who have lived with us
SIX years, and were born and raised on the
next farm. 1t makes her sick to smell
pork and cabbage. She has not forgotten
how to milk butif anybody rides by when
she Is milking, she gets behind the COW
and hides her head, as if she was stealing
milk. L have stood these things without
saying much until last Sunday when she
insisted upen our hied people sitting up
IN the gallery, because we needed ali our
pew room.
[ hired two pews to have room for all.
L knew she expected two boarding school
misses to make a visit, and was planning
to get our mcn-folks out of sight. [ bolt
ed out at this, and had a regular blowing
up, and told Nancy she was getting too
big-teeling entirely for a farmers daught-
err. She staid home from church and
cried all day. | hate crying women more
than long drought, so L shan't scold her
again.
[ don't want to be hard on the girl, but
what am | to do? [ am willing to let her
feed the chickens in gloves, and spell all
our names wrong, and I'd just as lief have
the boys wear shoes but when it comes
to Overturning everything, and being
ashamed of her father and mother, and
home, L am discouraged. | have bought
her piano, and let her learn music two
years, for she is naturally musical She
came near fainting one night when tie
Squire's son, just out of college, and a
Whlskered chap from the city, We're here,
because | said 'Come Nancie. give us a
tune on the piany." Isaw something was
wrong but couldn't guess what, for | had
on my duster, and WASH t tipping my chair
back, Ga vulgar trick" Nancy calls it. y
The next day my wife told me what was
to pay. l must say [ like my old fashion
ed way Of pronouncing as well as her new
fashioned way Of spelling. And only this
morning after breakfast when her ma told
her to shake the table cloth, what does
she do but take it way through the long
hall and out the back door, for fear some
one would see her shake it in the same
place where she had for ten years. I've
got new boughten carpet for the parlor,
and now she wants the front windows cut
down to the floor
Yesterday she came to me to know if
she might 'teach district school," s.No,"
said L, ''why do you want to teach? [
am able to keep six girls like you, if [ had
them. No, | can't think of your teach
ing" Upon this she began to cry again,
and [ can't stand women's tears, so l said
''tcach!" and she is going to teach all Win
ter and summer, in a little bit of a school
house, not as big as my playhouse, for fear
she will get canned and freckled and spoil
her hands helping her mother.
Now, Mr.. Editor, have given up Nan
cy, but | have three fine girls growing up.
| am able and willing to give them all
good education, for | believe in it, in spite
of the dreadful blundcr | have made. |
would like to know if you can tell me Of
any place where .ttunaey's daughter can
get good education and not lose her
senses. | can't stand it to have our 9TH
or girls get too big for our old-fashioned
farm house | want them sensible, and
well-informed women, but | set down my
foot against having them all turn school
teachers. JOHN SMITH.