Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-05-01
Farmers, Daughters.

The farmers daughters are soon to be
the life as well as the pride of the country
IA glorious race of women which no 9th.
er land can show. seek not to fatter
them, for before they can como to this,
they will have to make earnest efforts OF
one or two kinds. There are some who
depreciate their condition, and some who
have false pride in it, because they de-
mand more consideration than they merit.
A want of intelligence upon all subjects
of the day, ard Of refined education, is
no more cxcusable in a country than n
town bred girl, in this age Of many books
and newspapers.
Many girls are discouraged because
they cannot be sent away from home to
boarding. schools; but men of superior
minds and knowledge Of the world would
rather have for wives women well and
properly educated at home. And this
education can be had, wherever the de-
sire 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 sPierian spring. :"
There is farmers daughter in this very
room in which am writing, beautiful,
refined, and intellectual woman, in whose
girlhood books were not rs plentiful as
now, and who gained her fine education
under difficulties which would have dis
couraged any but one who had as true a
love for study.
The women in towns and cities are be-
coming so universally unhealthy, and so
almost universally extravagant, foolish
and fashionable, that men are almost in
despair 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 for
tune (good or bad) to be the inheritor of
wealth he must spend the bloom of his
youth in acquiring enough to "start up
on" as people are expected to begin now
a-days. Men, even in high places, would
go to the country for their choice, if they
met there equal refinement and intclli-
gence. Women are preparing to take q
noble stand in history, and they cannot do
it in ignorance.
Town girls have the advantages of
more highly polished manners and greater
accomplishments; but country girls have
infinitely more to recommend them as
rivals of the1. fair city sisters. They
have more truth, household knowledge
and economy, health (and consequently
beauty simplicity, affection, and fresh.
ness Of impulse and thought. When they
have cultivated minds, there are more
chances in their favor fer good sense and
real ability, because so much is not de-
mandcd by the frivolities Of society
The added lustre of foreign accomplish
ments could easily be caught by such Il
mind from very little contact with the
world
would not speak as though our far
mers' daughters were deficient in educa-
ton. Many brilliant scholars and talen-
ted women may be found among them
but would seek to awaken the ambition
of all to become that admired and favored
class which they ought to be, if they will
but unite refined culture with their most
excellent graces.
A sweet country home, with roses and
honcy-suckles trained to climb over it;
with good taste, intelligence, and beauty
within; toll enough to insure health, and
leisure enough to court acquaintance with
books and flowers, and the loneliness Of
nature, with peace, plenty and love, is
surely one OF the faradises which Heaven
has left for the attainment of man.-Ohio
Cultivator.