Litchfield enquirer., 1863-10-22

GIRLS ON 4 FARM.-Eyery agricultural wri. ter should try to make farming life pleasant Many would leave towns and settle on farms did they not fear their girls would grow ignor ant and choose coarse laborers for husbands Some leave their farms and go into town tha, their girls may have advantages Most men are struggling to overcome difficulties, and they hastily adopt the customs of their neigh. bors Enc American people are emerging from ages of barbarian. In those ages farm. ing work was performed by slaves.
 pr Walter Scott tells < story of Highland Chief who had son return from England with an idea that Spay some attention to agricul- ture, took the spade into his hand to show Low 1t should be used The father was across stream, he saw bis son digging, he calle1 to niln to throw down the spade, he did not obey. The father was so enraged that he crossed the stream and killed his son.
 A rich man in South Carolina had favor tte nephew. He thought so much of him that he sent him to be educated in Northern col lege. The young man graduated, and as he was returning the uncle learned that he had invented something and got patent for it. The very first words the uncle spoke were an inquiry whether the report was true. The young man confessed that it was. In the uts
 
 Afterward. the quarrel was made up by the youth promising not to do so again.
 To great degree thu Northern people are getting rid of the idea that it is disgraceful to labor. for they are carrying on the mightiest war the world ever saw that he who labors may have his just reward.
 This, now, is the moment to show that a farmer and his family be as refued and as intelligent as they be in cities. It is time to remember that when our First Parents were placed in the garden as eultivatofs of the soil, and. as dressers of fruit, they were placed where they could enjoy most.
 ;. In bringing up girls it is of importance that shey should have good health, but they are of ten dropping, and some are sickly for years. This is their condition in almost every part of our country frequently farmers girls are as delicate as if they lived in cities. There are three reasons for this, which are want of hereditary vitality, more out door exercise, ,and proper food and clothing but the first is the chief one. The mother, after while, but when 1t is too late, understands the whole mat ter. A woman who labors too much, or too Mtle5 cannot impart sound constitutions to her children. In ancient days, @ patriarch used to include in his daughters dowry hand maid. In these days father having means, can in no way better provide for his daughter than to set apart . sum sufficient to hire help for her when married, and it should be so invested that whatever ill-luck may befall her this inherit ence will be secure.
 The children of mothers who lead fashiona- ble, idle lives, arc more weakly than those who work too much, for the last, though often pr0strated, have immense ambition, and if their strength were equal to their spirit, they would accomplish wonders. I have been sur prised at nothing more than the plain, and even coarre looks of many rich peoples girls As Q general rule, the more heavily time pass es with . fashionable woman, the duller ard sleepier will be her girls. I have seen girls, whose fathers were said to be worth million of dollars, with white, square eyebrows and crooked noses, and mouths so straight that shey seemed made with one cut of Q butch. CT knife. No amount of fine dresses or rib- bons. can make them look well on the con- trary these efforts awaken ones pity. It is known that the children of idle parents die young, or that their family soon becomes ex- tinct.
 The handsomest girls belong to laboring pa- rents the handsomest and healthiest to those who are constantly active, but who do not ovsr.work themselves. Many rich people, having good habits and active minds and bod. ies, have very handsome girls, but, unfortunate. y, their beauty often fades because they have nothing to do, and live on too rich food
 The most favorable condition for girl is where her parents are moderately rich, where they live plain but we'll, where there is a large house and everything tasteful and comfortable, where no one is idle but where work is not pressing, and where there is farm.
 People who live in poor houses, and on cheap, coarse food, where learning is not valued, and who lead lazy and distressed lives, almost always have haggard and homely look ing children. They learn to read with the ut most dihicultY. In an extensive acquaintance among the "poor white trash," I never knew or heard of an instance where child rose above it's condition so as to get common school education. I know of young man of this class who went to school every day a whole Winter. that he might learn to write his name. He tried faithfnlly-.-he did noth- Ing elss-he gave up in despair. If it would be of any value, could give his name. ] may add, he is Q great admirer of Jeff Da wis.
 The health of many girls is permanently ruined by taking medicine. If it were not so checking, if human life were of no better value than brute's, it would bs better to take out child and shoot it, than 10 have 1t 90 through treatment of bleeding, blis- ters, calomeL or blue opium, and at last die. In most diseases child will get we'll quicker without doctor than with one. Every parent should acquire sufficient knoweledge to treat common cases. He should have few stand. ard medical books.