farmers Wives.
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The denizens of the crowded city, know
comparatively little of the joys and COM
forts which spring up around the domestic
hearth of the farmer who cultivates bis
own land, and harvests his own crops with
his own hands. in the deHsely populated
town, woman loses, in q great degree, the
charm of nature, and becomes too often a
slave to the supremacy of fashion; her best
impulses are cramped by the chain Of con-
ventionalism which there governs society,
and the native germs of goodness, which
springs up spontaneous in the female heart,
thrive poorly on such soil.


Away from the hustle and strife, afar
from the petty jealousy, and the canker-
ing cares, which cause the unrest of so
many Of the sons of trade, who, for the
sake Of snowy retinue, or a splendid
style of living, spend their lives where en-.
Wy and distrust grow like rank weeds in a
fertile soil; do the virtues which adorn the
character Of woman grow and expand in
all their loneliness and beauty. And in
asmuch as nature is superior 10 all art, so,
tested by the standard of real merit, are
our farmers wives and daughters superior
10 the tinseled butter flies that fit about
the edges of society, and sneer at those
whose pleasant toll sweetens the cup Of