Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-04-20
Old Fashioned Girl.

She fiourished thirty or forty years
AGO. She was little girl until she was
fifteen. She used to help her mother
wash the dishes and keep the kitchen
tidv. and she had ambition to make pies
40 nicely that papa could not tell the
difference between them and mama's.
and she could fry griddle cakes at ten
wears of age and darn her own stockings
before she was twelve, to say nothing of
knitting them herself.
She never said. II can't' and II don't
want to" to her mother when asked to
leave her play or run up stairs or down
on an errand, because she had not been
brought up in that way. Obedience was
a cardinal virtue in the old.fashioned
girl.
was called, and went out in the garden
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, or crimping pins. or had 1t
"banged" over her forehead, and her
flounces were no trouble to her.
She learned to sew by making patch
work and we dare say she could do an
lover OVCI SChuA do W GA e~c AA@AS
tenths of the grown-up women do now g.
days.
the old-fashioned little girl did moi
grow into q young lady and talk about
i beaux before she was in her teens, and
was not fancying hero in every plow'
boy she met.
She learned the solid accomplishment
as she grew up. She was taught thu
arts of cooking and Housekeeping
When she got husband she knew how
| to cook him dinner.
: She did not think she knew as mucf
as her mother, and that her judgment
: was as good as her grandmother's.
And if there be an oldfashiOned Ittl'
girl in the world to- day, may HEAVIER
: bless her, and keep her, and raise VI
others like her.
GOOD MANNERS AND EQUAL RIGHTS
If you pay the price of admission t
i 4 concert or any other entertainment
=, YOU have right to the undisturbed en-
ioyment of that which you pay for
and persons who come tramping int
or who 20 tramping out before 1t is con
cluded, or by hustle and whisperin,
prevent you from hearing what yol
came to hear, rob you of that whicl
), belongs to you. These persons coul
not, Of course, steal so cents out of yo4
pocket-book, but if they wilfully spol
that which has cost you SO cents, thei
act is essentially larceny. Well-bre
persons are always careful to respect tn
rights of others.
If you pay for one seat in o railwa
car you are entitled to that one seat
but if you occupy two seats, while an
decent person who has paid for the ses
has no seat at all, you are simply rob
= bling that person of what belongs
him. The writer of this not long ag
saw a well-dressed lady sit for an hou
and look in the face Of an equally vel
z! dressed man who stood during all tbs
&c time and held a young child in hl
arms, because there was no vacant ses
in the car, save the one in which til
If lady had placed some parcels of her
and which she did not offer to Femov
The man had paid for the seat, and it b.
longed to him. The lady had not pal
r. for the seat, and it cid not belong
her. She would have been greatly IL
suited if any one had called her robbie
but what was she doing? In some wa
she ought to have been delicately r.
minded that to take what does not be
= long to her is not one of the rights
woman, and that it is evidence OF lac
of good breeding.