The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-10-08
MISCELLANY.
THE OLD FASHIONED GIRL.

1dG OLO FdCdIOVbD OIHL.
She f1ourished thirty or forty years ago
She was a little girl until she was fifteen. Sin
used to help her mother wash the dishes anC
keep the kitchen tidy, and she had an ambi
ton to make pies nicely that papa coal6
not tell the difference between them aud nam
mas; and yet she could fry gridde-cahes a
ten years of age, and darn her own stockings
at twelve, to say nothing of knitting them her
self
She had her hours Of play, and enjoyed her
self to the fullest extent She had no very
costly toys, to be sure, but her rag doll and
little bureau and chair that Uncle Tom made,
were Just as valuable to her as the $50 wax
doh and elegant doll furniture the children
have now-a.days
She never said 81 can't" and 81 don't
want to, to her mother, when asked to leave
her play, and run up stairs or down on an er-
rand. because she had not been brought up
in that way. Obedience was cardinal virtue
i'll the old-fashioned little girl
She rose in the morning when she was call
ed. and went out into the garden and saw the
dew on the grass, and If she lived in the coun-
try, she fed the chickens and hunted up the
eggs for breakfast.
We do not suppose she had her hair in curl
papers, On crimping- pins, OF had it 8 banged y
over her forehead, and her floehces were no
trouble to her
She learned to sew by making patchwork,
and we dare say she could do an oper-and-
over" seam as well as nine tenths OF the
grownup women do nova. days.
The old-fashoned little girl did not grow
into young lady and talk about beaux before
she was in her teens and she did not read
dime novels, and was not fancying hero in
every plowboy she met.
She learned the solid accomplishments as
she grew up. She was taught the arts of
cooking and housekeeping. When she got
Sho was not learned in French verbs and
Latin declensions, and her near neighbors
were spared the agony of hearing her pound
out 1.-The maiden's Prayer" and "Silver
Threads Among the Gold" twenty times
day on the piano, but we have no doubt she
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modern young lady does hers.
1t may be vulgar assertion, and we sup
pose that we are not exactly up with the times
but we honestly believe, and our opinion is
based on considerable experience, and no
small opportunity for observation, that when
1t comes to keeping family happy, good
COOK and housekeeper is to be greatly prefer
red above an accomplished scholar. When
both sets of qualities are found together. as
they sometimes are, then is the household ov
or which such woman has control blessed.
The old-fashioned little girl was modest in
her demeanor aud she never talked slang or
used by-words She did not laugh at old PEG
pie or make fun of cripples, as we saw some
modern little girls doing the other day. She
had respect for her elders, and was not above
listening 10 words OF counsel from those older
than herself.
She did not think she knew as much as her
mother, aud that her Judgment was as good
as her grandmother's.
She did not go 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 doubtless
said her prayers before she went, and slept
the sleep of innocence, and rose up in the
morning happy and capable of giving happi-
ness.
And if there be an old fashioned little girl
in the world day, may heaven bless her and
keep her, and raise up others like her.