Daily Republican., 1878-10-31
The Old.rashioned LitsIe Girl

She Aourished thirty or forty year
ago. .... ....
She was little girl till she WAS III
teen.
She used 10 help her mother with tn
dishes and keep the kitchen tidy, an'
she had an ambition to make pies 81
nice that papa could not tell the dif
ference from mammas, and yet sh,
could fry griddl. cakes at ten years o
age, and darn her own stockings b-for,
she was twelve, to say nothing Of knit
ting them herself.
She had her hours 81 play, and en-
ioyed herself to the fullest extent Sh,
b .d no very costly TOYS, to bs sure, but
her rag doll and the little bureau and
chair that Uncle Tom made were just al
valuable to her as the go wax doll and
elegant doll furniture children have
nova days.
She never said, 81 can't and 81
don't want TO-" to her mother, when
asked to leave her play, and run ny
stairs or down on an srrand, because
She had not been brought up that way.
Obedience was q cardinal virtue in the
old-fashicned little girl.
She rose In tn. morning when she
was called, and went ont into the gar
den and saw tn. dew on the grass, and
II she lived In the country, she fed the
chickens and hunted up the eggs for
breakfast.
We do not suppose she bad her hair
in curl papers, crimping pins, or had II
g. banged over her forehead, and her
founces were no tronble to her.
She learned to sew by making patch
work, and we dare say sls could do an
over and over seam as we'll as nine
tenths Of the grown-up women can do
now -a-days.
The ld-fashioned little girl did not
grow into young lady and talk about
beaux before she was in hsr teens, and
she did not read dime novels, and was
not fancying hero in every plow-boy
she met.
She learned the solid accomplish.
m-nts as she grew up. She was taught
the art Of housekeeping and cooking.
When she got husband she knew how
to cook him dinner.
She was not learned in th. French
verbs, or Latin declensions, and her
near neighbors we're spared the agony
of hearing her pounding ont "Thp
Maiden's Prayer" "and" Silver Threads
Among the Gold" twenty times a day
ON the piano, but We hav. no doubt
she made her family quite as comforta-
BILE as the modern young lady does
hers.
II may be- vulgar assertion, and we
suppose We are not exactly up to tn.
times, but VIZ honestly believe, and
our opinion is based on considerable ex
pericnc'., and no small opportunity for
that when 1t comes to
keeping family happy, good cook
and housekeeper Is to be greatly pre-
ferred over an accomplished scholar.
When both sets of qualities are found
together, as they sometimes are, then
is the household over which such a
woman has control blessed.
The old fashioned little girl was mod
est in her demeanor, and she never
talked slang or used by-words She
did not Hirt. She did not laugh at old
people or make fun Of cripples, as we
saw some modern little girls doing the
other day. Shs had respect for her
elders, and was not above listening to
words Of counsel from those older than
herself.
She did not think she knew az much
as her mother, and that her judgment
was as good as her grandmother's.
She did not 90 to parties by the time
she was ten and stay till after midnight
playing euchre, and dancing with any
chance young man who happened to
be present.
She went to bed in season, and doubt
less said her prayers before she went,
and she slept the sleep of innocence,
and rose up in the morning happy and
capable of giving happiness.
And If there be an old fashioned little
girl in the world to-day, may heaven
bless her and keep her, and raise up
others like her Err.