Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-06-04
THE OLD FASHIONED GIRL.

She hourished thirty or forty years
ago. She was little girl until she was
fifteen. She used to help her mother
" ash the dishes and keep the kitchen
tidy, and she had an ambition to make
pies so nicely that papa could not tell
the difference between them and
mammals, and yet she could fry griddle
cakes at ten years of age, aud darn her
own stockings before she was twelve,
to say nothing Of knitting them her
self.
She had her hours of play and enjoy
ed 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 Tom made were just as valuable
to her as the $50 wax doll and elegant
doll furniture the children have now
a-days.
She never said II can't" and 81 don't
want to-" to her mother, when asked to
leave her play, or run up stairs or on an
errand, because she had not been
brought up in that way. Obedience
was cardinal virtue in the old fashion
ed little girl.
She arose in the morning when she
was called, and went out in the garden
and saw the dew on the grass, and II
she lived in the country she fed the
chickens and hunted up the eggs for
breakfast.
We do not suppose she had her hail
in curl papers or crimping pins, or had
it changed" over her forehead, and he1
flounces were no trouble to her.
She learned to sew by making patch
work, and we dare say she could DO al
'soyer.and.over" seam as well as nine
3 tenths of the grown up women of now
Q a-days,
The old-fashioned little girl did no
grow into a young lady and talk abou
beaux before she was in her teens, ant
she did not read dime novels, and wa
not fancying hero in every plow-bo
she met.
l She learned the solid accomplishment
. as she grew up, She was taught tn
= arts of cooking and Housekeeping
u When she got a husband she knew ho'
y to cook him dinner.
> She was not learned in French vert
d or Latin declensions, and her near neig
d bors were spared the agony Of hearin
II her pound out "The Maiden's Praye
Is and "Silver Threads Among the Colo
III twenty times day on the piano, b'
~ we have no doubt she made her comp'
nv quite as comfortable as the model
- young lady does hers.
~ 1t may be vulgar assertion, and Y
- suppose that we are not exactly up WI
ii. the times, but we honestly believe, al
- our opinion is based on considerable e
=, perience and no small opportunity
~ observation, that when it comes to kee
" ing family happy good cook al
% housekeeper is to be greatly PREFER
u above an accomplished scholar. VIII
a both sets of qualities are found togeth'
- as they sometimes are, then is the hou'
W hold over which such a woman has CO
~ troll blessed.
ne The old fashioned little girl was mo
he est in her demeanor, and she never Ia
Is ed slang or used bywords. She did
'ra laugh at old people or make fun OF CT
'ur ples as we saw some modern little 81
ti- doing the other day. She had resp
ed for her elders and was not above list
Ter ing to words of counsel from those ole
Ter than herself.
of She did not think she knew as mt
her as mother, and that her Judgment
ing as good as grandmother's.
'ss- She d1d not 60 to parties by, the ii
Su- she was ten, and stay till after midni.
a playing euchre and dancing with &
she chance young man who happened to
vas present. She went to bed in season
doubtless said her prayers before
II went, and slept the sleep Of innece1
vas and rose up in the morning happy
the capable of giving happiness.
ell. And if there be an old fashioned Ii
lalf girl in the world to-day, may hea
ma. bless her and keep her, and raise her
use like her.
Marksville Bulleten: Last Satur
49,. as Mrs. Theophile Gauthier, her tt
10 children and a young lady were rett
:, ing home from visit their horse
,iob buggy and themselves were hurled dc
mn the bank of Bayou DIES GLASSES. 1t Sc
- that cOlOred man named Manuel Jt
I ND Nv, Ur,-