The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-01-09

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But not all have the luck---good or
bad--to go away to school. What
they get, by way Of education" they
get near home, In their own district,
and then set up for teachers them
selves, during the sumner months,
under the auspices of very digni6od
School Committees. They 90 through
the siug.soug routine of teaching lit.
tie ones how to read and spoll---por-
haps they instruct the girls in plain
sewing likewiso-and afterwards sub
side into the occupation Of active
assistants in their own respective
households.
Sometimes they are indispensable
at home in which case they are held
fast by the button of affection, and
by sundry other inducements Of their
parents. Very soon they are INSTALL
cd mistresses in their own natl, c
homes, and maintain their position in
spite of even the most determined
efforts Of admirers to entice them
away. Very many such we used to
know, who with sacred devotion to
mother and father, have consented to
forego all their Ombitiou--world wise
aud consecrated their lives to the
comfort and stay of the hearts of
their parents. Beautiful pictures of
the filial dutyl Yet such examples
are not so many as to be found with
out some industrious looking.
We wish, from our hearts, thai all
the farmers girls could have tho ad d.
yantages they SO much desire, and
equally deserve. Some of them are
mere stay at.homes in the quiet old
brown houses, aud look over the
green grass or the white snow drifts,
longing and longing to see some
what of that great world--so restless,
too (which lies beyond, They are
true to their daily engagements in the
kitchen; they wash, and iron, and
help in the dairy, and sew; they
make beds, wash floors, set things to
rights run to the windows whenever
strangers travel the road, and make
up-frst and last-thc life aud light
ofthc household. When you take
your brief summer excursion into the
country, you will see them standing
in the doors, or feeding the poultry
in the back yard, pcrchance hanging
out the washing on the line, with
sprawling1suu bonnets ou--rosy,robust,
and charming Their faces confess
health and their forms faultlessness.
The girls are up betimes in the
morning, with a window wide open
and a bed soon made and in the sum
mer mornings you will see them
everywhere around and within the
house. Sometimes up at the barn
yard milking favorite COW or
throwing corn to the ducks, geese, aud
turkeys-or stufing dough down the
throats of dowuy chickens. They
are gay creatures then-romping hoy
1cns, with checks like June roses,
and arms barred to sun and air. 1t
would be no such hard work to fall
straight in love with them.
If cheese is making, they have
hands to dip into tho crdmbling curdi
or if butter their fair arms are knead-
ing out the butter milk from the gold
en- mass as deeply as they can thrust
them in. OF good substantial house
keeping, they know just all that is
worth Knowing, from starting fire
in frosty morning to roasting u goose
and bringing it in proper trim to the
table. None are more thoroughly
Sup" to all the essential trieke Of
living Even when they pour the
milk from the pitcher, as you sit over
against them at the table, it looks
and sounds as it does not anywhere
else; your lips instinetively water for
tumblcr- full before it is set down
again; and ever after, when you think
Of fresh country milk and cream, it is
along with country maids, fair arms,
and ruddy faces.
1t Is at the Singing School where
our buxom country girl finds her fu-
ture husband. Nothing is doing, in
their estimation, unless brisk spark
ing is going on; and it is the long
winters, with their sociable evenings,
that do the mischief Then it is that
Lucy gets beau home rather regu--
larly, and her not so fortunate sister
of course laughs at her. Afterwards,
if her "foller" feels inclined to turn
it into serious business, he opens
with course of carefully timed visits,
varying both in length and frequency
from once every two weeks 10 twice
every one week. Sunday offers the
peculiarly favored evening, which in
the country, seems to be sacred to
eoprtship. Many and many a Sun
day night have see a single lone
candle burning in this house and that
at an hour when none bat honest
travellers and legitimate lovers had
any moral or natural right to be out
on the road.
The "best room" Of the farmers
house is open then, though both
sunshine aud fre-li oht be kept out
through the rest Of the week. Pass,
ing by leisurely and a little serutiniz-
ingly, oDo might distiutly make out a
close pair of them firmly set on a
pair Of good shoulders, across the
paper window-shadc which single
glance tells him belongs to some we'll
known young farmer. fellow who lives
not over two miles of. Besides,
there is a tired horse that stands pa
ticnt aud solitary before the gate
posts, perhaps with big checked
blanket sprawled over his frame, aud
his head dropping down between his
knees in drowsy meditation on this
sort of service.
10 time, oourtship leads to mar.
riagei il generally does. This event,
in the family, is the eap-shcaf of all
others. For its sake, the household
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