The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-06-24
The Old ashioned Girl.

A writer in the Examiner and C2a70n-
icle says that the blessing Of heaven may
fall upon any old-fashioned girl. !" He
once knew such girls, and sketches o
portrait of them as follows ::
She fourished thirty or forty years
ago. She was little girl until she
was Is. u So. Is 80 I.
She used toshelp her mother wash the
dishes, and keep the kitchen tidy, and
she had an ambition to make pies SO
nicely that papa could not tell the diff
ference between them and mammals.
She could fry griddle at 10
years Of age, and darn her stockings be-
fore she was 12, to say nothing Of knit
ting them herself
She had her hours Of play, and enjoyed
herself to the fullest extent.
She had no very costly toys, to be
sure, but her rag doll and little bureau
and chair that Uncle Tors made were
just as valuable to her ask the $40 wax
doll and elegant doll furniture the chill
dren have nowadays
She never said, s I can't, 2 ssI don't
want to, 2 to her mother, when asked to
leave her play, and run up stairs or
down on an GRAND, because she had not
been brought up in that way.
Obedience was a cardinal virtue in the
old-fashioned little girl.
We do not suppose she had her hair
in curl papers or crimping- pins, or had
it IS banged" over her forehead, and her
founces were no trouble to her.
She learned to sew by making patch
work, and we dare say she could do an
II
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, and
she did not read dime novels, and was
not fancying a hero in every plow-boy
she met.
She learned the solid accomplishm
as she grew up. She was taught the
art of cooking and housekeeping. When
she got husband, she knew how to
cook him dinner.
She was not learned in French verbs
or Latin declensions, and her near neigh
bors were spared the agony Of hearing
her pound out "The Maiden's Prayer
and ssSilver Threads Among the Gold !.
twenty times day on the piano.
But we have no doubt she made her
| family quite as comfortable as the mod
ern young lady does hers.
/ It may be a vulgar assertion, but we
honestly believe that. when it comes to
keeping a family happy, good cook
! and housekeeper is to be greatly pre-.
ferred above an accomplished scholar.
When both sets of qualities are found
together, as they sometimes are, then is
the household over which such woman
has control blessed.
i The old-fashioned little girl was
modest in her demeanor, and she never
talked slang or used by-words.
! She did not laugh at old people Of
make fun of cripples, as 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.
i She did not think she knew as much
as her mother, and that her judgment
was as good as her grandmothe
4 She did not go to parties by the time
she was 10, and stay till after midnigh
| playing euchre and dancing with any
chance young man who happened to b,
present.
She wentto bed In season, and, doubt
less, said her prayers before she went
and slept the sleep Of innocence, ana
rose up in the morning happy and capa
! bic OF giving happiness.