The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-01-09
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FARMERS DAUGHTERS.
God bless them. every one

1t is an involuntary exclamation
but what Of that2 Is it not there.
fore, the sincerer speech of the heart ?
The rosy creatures, buxom and
clear Of oomplexiou-their souls in
their eyes and their hearts in their
hands-robust and bouncing-vigor-
Gus and hcarty-overaowing with
life, and health aud genuine beauty I!
You, my pretty town cousin, may
pout ''coarSe p about them; but that
is only conventional word, it does
not mean the same thing in any two
places. But there are some few
things about them which we do like
they are simple and timid, and
thoroughly natural. Better a thou
sand times, for the hopes of the
world, that the mothers of the coming
generations be awkward with their
stores Of health, than SO very hne,
sentimental, aud dawdling. The boys
aud girls who have not yet opened
their bright eyes on the day, will
live to give thanks to the country
girls of the present generation for
their priceless inheritance Of physical
Robustness and activity. The gigan-
tic projects of the coming years will
owe their final success to the stout
constitutions and high spirits which
the maidens Of our day are capable Of
transmitting.
You can find them back from the
towns and cities to o-day; ou solitary
crossroads; in low rooted houses, a
mile or two apart; on large farms,
experimenting the dairy, the kitchen,
or the poultry department.; girls not
put out to term of hard service ex-
actly, nor yet kept in for similar
purpose but quietly and happily at
tending to domestic duties in a do.
mostic way; contentcd, in that con
tentment furnishes bliss of the sercn.
est sort trustful with their affections;
disposed to look on the bright side
of things full Of song to ovcrAowing,
from morning till night with red
cheeks in summer aud winter alike I;
attached, with a sort of devotion, to
home aud all its endearing associa-
tions aud, all things considered, the
brightest that illuminate the pathway
of parents and the neighborhood.
Such are our farmers daughters
the best of them. They are not all,
or altogether, after this picture yet
tho exceptions are by no means to be
found so much fault with. Those
samples which We have made rapid
studies of-as you can find them all
through our Northern States, and
New England espeeially-aro really
models Of their sex, Perhaps triAc
too timid perhaps not quite at case in
all kinds of society; perhaps una
ware, too, of the fresh and innocent
beauty that breathes and speaks from
face and form-still as the town is
driven to make regular drafts on the
country for its men, SO is it obliged,
and SO will it always be obliged to
60 back through the same green lanes,
and over tho same grassy fields, aud
into the same brown houses, for its
mothers for the generations that are
yet to come. We cannot rejoice too
much that it is so.
But it ought to be stated that a
farmers girl in these days is not what
a farmers girl used to be. Once she
was tied down to pairing apples and
slieing them for the string, to spin
ming fax and wool, to indiscriminate
seullery labors, and to work which is
now thought not in all cases the very
easiest or best for her. Now, the
spinning is not performed in the far
mcr's kitchen, the apples are pared
and cored by machinery, the hard
work is carried of by the Fired "help"
and a general spirit Of refinement is
slowly working its way in. One read
lily detects it in the changed look of
the door yards. 1t smiles forth a
confession in the gay masses of flow
ers that are tended with such care
during the warm season. 1t betrays
itself in the disposition 70 read more,
to be less timid and shy, to establish
something like truly social state and
neighborhood, aud to court those
graces which, always and everywhere,
imply generous culture on the part
of those who give them attention.
A thriving farmer oftheso times is
ambitious to give his daughters all
the advantages he can secure for
them so he eonsults friends aud tho
passing catalogues, aud resolves on
sending them to as good schools as
are TO be found for the hunting. But
every mothers daughter of them
knows how to make aud bake bread,
before she goes. And as soon as their
term Of "sehOoling" is over, aud they
have taken little time to recruit
their strength by a reasonable respite
at tho old homestead, they are COM
pcteat to take charge Of all the in