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TILLIE, A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch
TILLIE, A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch
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If you want to read a book "out of the common," take-up the story of "Tillie: A Mennonite Maid."
Tillie is the daughter of a Pennsylvnian Dutchman in Lancaster County, not himself a Mennonite, but an "Evangelical," one of those men who would skin a flint and bury it so that it might get another cuticle for a similar operation. Inspine of the difficulties of the sordid home, the girl by her love for a refined Southern woman who taught the village school for a term, educates herself until she, too, becomes the teacher. There is, of course, a love story, and a good one, too, with two lovers—a characteristic Dutchman and a “Harvard gradyate," who has charge of the school for a time.
The author is master of the Pennsylvanian Dutch-English dialect, with its curious interpolations and transpositions, but the reader will, without difiiculty, find amusement in the dialogue. She is also fully conversant with the Mennonite peculiarities—the "giving up" of the world, the “living lain," and the treatment of backsliders—and she depicts delightfully the lingering leaven of vanity which makes the possessor of seductive curls allow one to straggle beyond the restraint of the quaint cap, until it actually brings about excommunication from the church. The real strength of the book lies in its remarkable characterization of these sturdy and curious people. We come to know them all— the farmer, the school directors who prefer a "Millersville normal" to a “Harvard gradyate," the doctor who is delighted that he is classed as an “eclectic,” the patient wife who scrubs her husband, the kindly Mennonite hostess of the hotel, and others.
The novel will take its place among those which have of late held public attention owing to their presenting true pictures of local peculiarities.
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This e-book contains eighteen illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn as they were produced in the Grosset & Dunlap edition of 1904.
Tillie is the daughter of a Pennsylvnian Dutchman in Lancaster County, not himself a Mennonite, but an "Evangelical," one of those men who would skin a flint and bury it so that it might get another cuticle for a similar operation. Inspine of the difficulties of the sordid home, the girl by her love for a refined Southern woman who taught the village school for a term, educates herself until she, too, becomes the teacher. There is, of course, a love story, and a good one, too, with two lovers—a characteristic Dutchman and a “Harvard gradyate," who has charge of the school for a time.
The author is master of the Pennsylvanian Dutch-English dialect, with its curious interpolations and transpositions, but the reader will, without difiiculty, find amusement in the dialogue. She is also fully conversant with the Mennonite peculiarities—the "giving up" of the world, the “living lain," and the treatment of backsliders—and she depicts delightfully the lingering leaven of vanity which makes the possessor of seductive curls allow one to straggle beyond the restraint of the quaint cap, until it actually brings about excommunication from the church. The real strength of the book lies in its remarkable characterization of these sturdy and curious people. We come to know them all— the farmer, the school directors who prefer a "Millersville normal" to a “Harvard gradyate," the doctor who is delighted that he is classed as an “eclectic,” the patient wife who scrubs her husband, the kindly Mennonite hostess of the hotel, and others.
The novel will take its place among those which have of late held public attention owing to their presenting true pictures of local peculiarities.
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This e-book contains eighteen illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn as they were produced in the Grosset & Dunlap edition of 1904.
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