A Woman's Best Compliment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 21, 1909

A Woman's Best Compliment

THE finest compliment we have ever heard given a woman was by her husband, who said, in speaking of her, “We always think of her as a morning-glory, because she looks so bright and cheery and pretty at the breakfast table.” Very many breakfast tables are presided over by women who make no effort to be dainty, and there are a great number who are at once untidy, and even uncleanly to look at.

The claim that household duties keep women from looking well in the morning is easily disproved; for in many a household where the lady gives a helping hand in the kitchen, a big apron will thoroughly protect her dress, and then, too, cooking, unless one makes it so, is never dirty work.

That woman commits an error who looks uncared for and badly dressed in the morning.

The other woman, who wears any old dress to the breakfast table, is also making a mistake; for that is the time when the members of the home ought to see a woman at her best, and not specially rely on her appearance in the evening, when the soft and charitable light of the gas will hide many defects.—Selected.