The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-06-17
THE OLD FASHIONED GIRL.

was fifteen. She used TO help her
mother wash the dishes and keep the
Kitchen tidy, and she had an ambition
to make pics so nicely that papa could
not tell the difference between them
and mammals, and yet she could fry
griddle cakes ut 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 and en-
joycd herselfto tho 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 doll and
elegantdoll furniture tho children have
nowadays.
She never said "I can'p' and 81
don't want to-" TO her mother, when
asked to leave her play, and run up
stairs or on an GRAND, because sine had
not been brought up in that way.
Obedience was 4 cardinal virtue in the
old fashioned little girl.
She arose in the morning when she
was called, and went out into the gar
den and saw the dew on the grass, and
il she lived in the country she fed the
chickens and hunted up the csss for
breakfast
we do not suppose She had her hair
in curl papers or crimpins pins, or had
1t ''bangett' over her forehead, and
her tlounccs were no trouble to her,
She learned to sew by making
patchwork, and we dare say she could
do an ''over-and- over" seem rs we'll as
nine-tenths of the grown up women of
nowadays.
The oId~f:,shioned little girl did not
grow into young lady and talk about
beauN before she was in her teens, and
she did not read dime novels, and was
no; Gancying Il hero in every pillow boy
she met
She learned the solid accomplish
ments as she grew up. She was taught
the arts of cooking and house Keeping
When she got :, husband she knew
how to cook him Il dinner
She was not learned in French verbs
or Latin declcnSions, and her near
neighbors were spared the agony Of
hearing her pound out ss'rhe Maiden's
Praycr'' and ssSilvcr Threats Among
the Gold'' twenty times Il day on the
piano, but we have no doubt she made
her company quite as comfnrtahic as
tho modern young lady docs hers.
1t may DO Il vulgar assertion, and we
suppose that we are not exactly up
with the times, but we honestly believe,
and our opinion is based on consitfcra-
BILE experience and no small opportun
ity for observation, that when ii comes
to keeping family happy Il good cook
and housekcepcr is to be greatly pre-
terred above an accomplished scholar.
When both sets of qualities found to-
gether, 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 demcanor, and she never
talked slang or used hywords. She did
not laugh at old people 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 to words OF counsel
from those older than herself
She did not think she knew rs much
as mother, and that her Judgment was
as good as grandmother's.
She did not go to parties by the time
she was ten, and stay till after mid
night playing cuchre and dancing with
any chance young man who happened
to be present. She went to bed in sea-
son aud doubtless said her prayers be.
fore she went, and slept the sleep OF in
nocence, and rose up in the morning
happy and capable of giving happiness,
And if there be an old fashioned lit
tie girl in the world to-day, may heaven
bless her aud keep her, and raise her up
like her.