LETTERS TO FARMERS' DAUGHTERS.

Southland Times, Issue 1262, 7 June 1870, Page 3

LETTERS TO FARMERS' DAUGHTERS.

(Prom the American Cultivator.) I.— LITTLE THINGS. A thing is great or little, only to mortal's thinking. "My Dejji Girls,— Brought up as a farmer's daughter, and later a farmer's wife, the writer cannot but know something of the cares and annoyances, as well as pleasures and delights of the farm life. To aid you in viewing rightly your varied privileges, obligations, and necessities, in life's varied departments, is my present object ; so with a cordial greeting, I propose to talk to you about " little things." - Few lives are remarkable for great things, but are made rich, and fruitful, and blest, by little duties well performed, little joys oft repeated^ little troubles beaten off before they sting ; or life may be to us poor, and barren, and wretched, by little cares neglected, little kindnesses omitted, little sorrows nursed, and little pleasures unappreciated. It is only by the " here a little, and there a little," of patient study, between times, that many in your position attain mental culture, or find time for personal and home adornment, for the cultivation of those tastes peculiar to woman, and by the neglect of which she does her home, her parents, brothers, and husband, a cruel wrong. A little hour, wasted yesterday, might have carried a sunbeam into the darkened room of some ' pale sufferer, or renewed strength and courage to some overburdened neighbor. Perhaps some eye may scan this page, to whom life seems but one weary round jof trifles ; to whom ! the days are but a treadmill of unappreciated, unrequited labor. To Buch I would say, fight against despondency; look up, and count the stars set in the dark of your BkyJ; resolutely treasure the little blessings of Existence, and never forget to "commit

thy trifles unto God, for to Him is nothing trivial." Finally, if I had a voice that could reach girlhood., in its wide realm of promise, I should say that its first work' is to form a fitting character, with which to do the great work of woman. With this end in view, I shall send you another letter shortly. Meanwhile, dear girls, collect your precious "likle things" in. the shape of minutes, words, efforts, tastes, &c., and sum them up, if you will. If not, know they are recorded on high, for good or ill, for joy or sorrow.