The daily gazette., 1875-05-01
THE HOME CORNER.
A COUNTRY GIRL.

"Would you like to 60 to the city
and live with me?" said lady to a
pretty, sprightly, industrious, country
girl.
80, yes; should be 80 glad to CO."
"Come, then mako ready, and we
will leave In few days"
"But, madam. cannot GO; must
stay at home"
Thereupon the poor girl burst into
tears and covered her face with a cor
ner of clean,' checked apron. She
sobbed and sobbed, as If her heart
would break. The lady was in dismay,
to have opened the AoOdgates of hid
den grief in this unexpected manner.
"What Is the matter, Doras do
not understand why you must stay at
home, If you prefer to 60 with me.
You are of age and can choose for
yourself" - .frf.
"My mother is dead, and l, being
the eldest, must take care of my little
brothers and sisters"
Duty was evidently bitter dose In
her case, for tears rained down her
cheeks thick and fast,
1t seemed as though her heart we're
sore through and through, and that
words of kindness and interest had set
1t bleeding. Many another healt would
be lighter il relieved of its pen-up
burden of tears. But there are those
who cannot cry, to whom griefs which
| find resource in tears would be mere
specks in the clouds. Their woes are
the deep, terrible accumulations and
complications of years of agony and
unrest.
But this country girl is young, and
so are her sorrows. She wears CHEEKY
face all the day long. No one would
imagine she had longing or desire for
another life beyond the humble sphere
in which she was born. Patience
and philosophy are indigenous to some
| minds.
{ Certainly any city belle might envy
; her plump, graceful figure, small hands
and feet and golden hair. To an artists
eye she were more attractive in hel
rustic home, clad in plain attire. But
to be doomed to low-thatched roofs
and back-door scenes, feeding the
lambs and chickens, and never to sec
anything out in the great tworld-weil
caarass women like it best.
Flesh and blood rebels against
such fate. No wonder the girl
cried. But there is plenty of time
for her yet If she profits by ever
her small opportunity for improve
ment.
No one amounts to anything in thi:
age who 10 ignorant. Books are plenty
and can be had almost by asking TO-
them. Intelligence and refined tast,
will attract agreeable and pleasant as
sociates. An ambitious girl must re
fuse the offers of marriage which pro
mise nothing In future beyond herpre
sent narrow sphere, or suffer an afte
life of disappointment. She will wait
work and fit herself to be worthy of :
position in the world, where life will
be something more than barren tread
mill.
Evenings are long in the country
where amusement and diversion arr
limited. After thework of the day is fin
ished theevening meal over and tea
things cleared away, there are at leas
two hours which may be devoted Il
impro5 ring the mind.
fhe only safe remedy for the evils o
Obscurity, poverty and loneliness, i
work and study. Fate does not hun
up every pretty girl to touch her will
faiay wand, and send rich husban,
to bring her to the surface of good SO
oisty. Those who wait idly for thi
will nearly all be disappointed.
Then how much nobler to carve out
ones own fortr he, TO be worthy of goot
luck, and by thought, careful reading
and gentle manners to feel at hom,
among cultured people.
A raw, ignorant girl is anything bu
a pleasure, even to those who low,
her, II, by singular turn in circum
stances, she finds herself among refined
and elegant people. 1t is cruel mis-
fortuhe to her If by marriage she il
placed Ia srch a position; for she be
comes an object Of pity, contempt ant
iridicule, according to to the sense an(
}charity OF those she meets.
Duty, little Dora, Is sometimes
very bitter dose, but it is a most ex
eellent tonic, accompanied by proper
Hxa3a diats
Cheer up and hope that the futur,
has happy chapter or two for you.-
Meanwhile, i.aprove the hours Of wait
ing for the good ii -ie coming, by max
ing ready to be wo thy of somethin,
above the average good that comes %
ynOrtalS,--EJ2 OrL0u