The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-01-09
The Old. shioned Girl.

She hourished thirty or forty
years ago.
Sue was a little girl till she Was
fifteen.
She used 10 help her mother wash
the, dishes aud keep tho kitchen tidy,
aud she had an ambition to make
pies 30 Moe that papa cJull not tell
The difference between thom and
namma's. and yet she could fry
griddle cakes at ten years OF age.
and darn her own stockings before
she was twelve. to say nothing of
knitting them herself.
She had her hours Of play, aud on +.
joyed herself to the fullest extent.
She had no very costly toys, 70 be
sure, but her rag doll and little bu.
rcau aud chair that Uncle Tom
made. were just as valuable to her
as the $40 wax doll aud elegant doll
furniture the children have now "a
days.
She never said al can't and II
don't want to" to her mother, when
asked to leave her play, aud run up
stairs or down on an errand, because
she was not brought up in that way.
Obedience was cardinal virtue in
the old fashioned little girl.
Sho rose in the morning when she
was called, and went out to the
gaicen and saw the dew on the
grass, and if she lived in the country
she fed the chickens and hunted up
the eggs for breakfast.
We do not suppose she had her
hair in curl papers, crimping pins.
or had il banged over her fore
head, and her founces were no trou-
BILE to her.
She learned to sew by making
patch work, aud we dare say she
could do an over aud over seam as
we'll as nine-tenths Of the grown up
women do nova. days.
The old-fashioned little girl did
not grow into young lady and talk
about beaux before she was in her
teens, aud she did not read dime
novels aud was not fancying hero
in every plow-boy she met.
She learned the solid accomplish.
ments as she grew up. She was
taught tho arts Of cooking and house
keeping. When she got husband
she knew how to cook him a dinner
She had not learned in French
verbs, or Latin declensions, and her
near neighbors were spared the ago
ny of hearing her pound out "rhe
Maiden's Prayer" aud "Silver
Thread Among the Gold twenty
times day on the piano, but we
have no doubt she made her family
quite as comfortable as the modern
lady does hers
1t may be u vulgar assertion. au !
We suppose we are not exactly up
with tha times. but We honestly be.
lievc aud our opinion is based on
considerable experience aud no
small opportunity for observation
that when it comes to keeping u
family happy a good cook and house
keeper is to be preferred over an
accomplished scholar. When both
sets Of qualities are found togcthor,
NJ they sometimes are, then is the
household over which such O woman
has control blessed.
The old fashioned little girl was
modest in her deneanor, aud she
never talked slang or by-w,rds.
She did not laugh at old people or
make fun Of cripples ss we saw
some modern little girls doing the
other day, She had respect for
elders, and was not above listening
to words of counsel from those older
than herself.
She did not think she knew as
mach as her mother, aud that her
Judgment was ~ good as her grand
mothers.
She did not 60 to parties by the
time she was ten and stay till after
midnight playing euchre aud dane.
ing with any chance young man that
to be present.
She went to bed in season and
doubtless said her prayers before
she went, and slept the sleep of in.
uocence, aud rose Up in the morning
happy aud capable Of giving happi'
ness.
And il there be an old.fashioned
little girl in the world to-day, may
heaven bless her aud keep her, and
raise others up like her.