Farmer's Daughters in Euclid, Ohio: "Republican Simplicity"

This quick historical snippet was published in September, 1849 in The British Banner via correspondent of the Pittsburgh Visitor (perhaps AKA the Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter).

It reads:

Republican Simplicity. -- A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Visitor writes of Euclid, Ohio: “No young lady here is ashamed to work for a living; the daughter of the most wealthy farmer (if she be in health) scorns to wear an article of dress which is not the product of her own industry, although the ‘whereas’ may have been earned at the washtub of a neighbour whose pecuniary resources are much inferior to those of her parents.”

 What a lovely, if random, observation of Euclid 170 years ago.