The Osceola times., 1874-12-05
Farmers Girls.

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D best wives in the world are mad,
from farmers girls. We believe i
true. Not but that many mechan
les and merchants aud bankers
girls make good wives and excel
lent women. But the rule is tha,
farmers girls are healthier, tresher
iarer, more useful and sensible
than any other class OF young wo
men. " hat is "A girlrgood for tha,
has po,-health, no vigor or BODY
: whose waist is liksswasp's, whose
lungs are cramped into halt their
proper size, whose spine is crooked
ANA diseased, whose nerves are
weak as "a spleeny old woman's,
whose physical organism is so weak
and unstruns, that every wind
gives her cold, every change in
I the weather a neuralgia attack.
every accident hysleric fit, and
every spider that sets foot in her
pathway q frantic terror? What is
: a girl good for if she has no useful
Information, whose hands can serve
no useful turn, can neither mako
bread nor butter, nor clothes, nor
wash, nor nlrsc, nor mend? Wives
i've 10 some purpose, or ought To.
Theirs is great mission. They
have u field to occupy. They have
noble .ervice 10 humanity to do.
They have to preside over the
interests Of the thousand homes
that dot out country. The dress,
the comfort, the taste, the health,
the happiness, the intelligence, the
virtue of our homes, are nota little
in their keeping. All the interest,
that cluster around the tireside are
coniided to them. Not the politi.
clans at Washington, not the pro.
lessons in our colleges, not our men
Ot commerce in our scaports, not
the bankers in our cities, Not he
mechanics IN our shops, nor the
men OF our professions, not even
our ministers OF the Gospel--have
committed to them a grander or
hoiior charge, or have IN their
Keeping interests of greater impor-
tanee than the wives of our country.
Dur civilization, our intelligence,
upon our wives asupon any class
OF the community They should
then be healthy, strong and useiul.
They should know how ro do some
thing that will be of service to their
families. TO cook, to wash, TO
make, to mend, to pickle, to pre-
serve, TO cure, TO nurse, TO instruct,
to please, to bless, to entertain, TO
serye, to encourage, TO cut, TO knit
and sew-are some Of the offices
devOlving upon n wife. ii she
knows not all of these things, she
must fail in some Of her duties. !.
she cannot put her own hards to
these services, she cannot fulfill her
mission. To do these things She
must be well stocked with common
sense and useful information. 70
embroider, to finger musical m
strument, to paint, to draw, t. read
French, and nurse flower pots and
lap-dogs, is no part OF wiie's ms.
sion. TO go into Mysteries over
the last novel, to weep overa news |
paper doggerel, to study the fashion I
plate, to least on the !ady's book
as though it were sohd TODD, to
shuttle over love stories ana be de.
lighted with coxeomb literature
are accomplishments of very |
questionable character in wife.
Hhf a grain of Common sense
sprinklcd into few hours OF use
fuI occupation is worth more than
all of them. Because farmers
daughters are freer from these fool
cries, are sounJer in health, are
trained TO moro useful employ
ments, is the reason why, Us a
general rule, they make better
wives. An true accomplishing, ats
are to be prlzed; but the first aud
| best and ever-to-be-esteemod ac-,
complishments is, to be useful.
This always makes one agreeable,
always makes one honored. When
usefulness, is Joined wlth intelli-
gence, virtue and graceful manners.
/ it consummates the character OF a
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