The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-12-08
A Young Girls First View OF the
World.

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firing Of the monotony Of this
view (wTites a lady correspondent Of
the Louisville CotTier-JOurEa) / adj
dressed myself 20 the two lady passen-
gers who we're my companions in the
sleeper. There were only five passen-
gers in our car, and the lady nearest
me was teacher from Georgetown,
Colorado, en- route % the Centennial.
She was going for rest, she said; she
was so run down she could not sleep at
night. She was of middle age, had a
stern countenance, and had forgotten,
if she ever knew how, TO look pleasant.
The other party was a slender, blue
eyed girl of 10. Her clothes were slight
" countrifed, but her face was intelli-
gent, and her voice low and sweet.
There was homesick look about her
that | never like 10 see on any face,
especially young, fair one. | walked
ever TO her and sat by her side, and
found her very interesting. Would you
believe, you young people, who, at 10,
have exhausted the pleasure of travel,
and find the world bldse, that this young
girl was now taking her first journey?
She had never before been 80 miles from
home, but the brave little thing had bid
her father and mother goodbye at their
rancho house gate near Santa Ee, New
Mexico, and had entered the stage and
Travelled alone six DAYS and nights with
out resting, and at Denver was met by
her fathers friend, General Smith,
under " hose care she was now going
To Ohio for a fOur-years' struggle with
the inconsistencies and strangeness of
the world, and the tough school-books,
in one of our colleges. Talk of hero
ines; | will venture not one of you trav-
eled girls would undertake such feat
as that? Six days alone in a stage
coach. Your delicate nerves w"Ild be
all urstrung, unless there happened TO
be young gentleman with you. She
was now taxing her first railroad ride,
vet she sat as composed and graceful as
Though il was her fiftieth. She told me
her story in a FRANK, childlike way, but
there was no 6rusgueness or awkward
ness in her manner. The cars look
very like what j supposed them 20 DO.
4 OF course have seen pictures Of them,
and father has explained 20 me every
separate part Of the engine, SO | could
/ tell YOU every section, and explain its
use and connection with the whole, and
il was the most exciting moment of my
life when / saw the great steam mon
ster come putting up to me to-day"
What think you Of this, young ladies?
Gould one Of you tell any thing about
an engine, often a. You have seen
them? l confess could not, and sat
quite dumbfounded by the side Of
this learned novice in the werld.
al have had several governesses
from the East, but they got married
soon, each Of them, so | was often with
out ateacher for long time, and at last
il was decided | should 60 East TO
school. | was feeling little blue Just
now, when got to thinking how far /
was from home, and do dread so the
first day at school. | am so glad you
came TO talk with me. Can you tell me
how to act when get there, and what
they will do first? AtschOol, | mean"
So | told her all my experiences of col
lege life, and especially all the cheer
full, funny things about a boarding
school, and, of course, she would find
out her dual, her schoolgirl affinity,
whc would not have thought that was
not shared with her, and | asked her 10
write me how she got along, and de-
8 .ribe her dearest friend TO me when
/ she met her, as she surely would. SO
I she is going TO write me for advice, and
tell me all her experiences, and take
me for sort Of worldly god-mother,
/ TO whom letter will come much quicker
than to Santa Fe, and have taken to
my heart blue-eyd prOtege, who is as
odd a bundle of humanity a. ever met.
I She SAYS her father lives in an adobe
house one story high, with a porch all
around it. The floors are only mud,
but they have velvet carpets laid
over the hard dirt floors,
and she has very good
piano, add plenty of books, and often
girls came out from Santa Re TO spend
weeks with her, and she has a black
Mexican pony named Ogarita, and par
rots and lots of strange pets. When we
were crossing a river on fine railroad
bridge, the impulsive girl caught my
hand, eNclaiming: "There is steam
boat; the first one l ever saw" Sure
enough. a small steamer was rounding
a sand-bar, and bearing down upon us.
She watched il as long as the smoke
could be seen. So all along she was
spying something new, asking me ques-
tions which often / could not answer,
, telling me things / did not know, and
at one moment surprising me by her
ignorance, and the next moment sur
, prising me by her deep thought and
knowledge,of intricate science. A won
derful little woman she il, and twice as
; charming 70 me, as a rough diamond,