The Plymouth Pilot

A Lesson for Girls.

An intelligent gentleman of fortune,
says the Bangor Whig, visited a country
village in Maine, not far from Bangor,
and was hospitably entertained and
lodged by a gentleman having three
daughters, two of whom in rich dresses
entertained the distinguished stranger in
the parlor. while one kept herself in the
kitchen, assisting her mother in preparing
food and setting the table for tea,
and after supper, in doing the work till it
was finally completed, when she also
joined her sisters in the parlor for the remainder
of the evening. The next
morning the same daughter was again
early in the kitchen, while the other two
were in the parlor. The gentleman, like
Franklin, possessed a discriminating
mind--was a close observer of the habits
of the young ladies--watched an opportunity
and whispered something in the
ear of the industrious one and then left
for a time, but revisited the same family,
and in about one year, the lady of the
kitchen was conveyed to Boston the
wife of the same gentleman visitor where
she now presides at an elegant mansion.
The gentleman whose fortune she shares,
she won by judicious deportment and
well directed industry. So much for an
industrious young lady.