An Untidy Girl

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1904

SHE comes tripping home from school, rushes into the house, throws her hat on a chair, her cloak on another, and galoshes in the middle of the floor, gives her mama a kiss, and then hurries upstairs to change her dress. Her room is all topsy-turvy, nothing in its place, and mama has to be summoned to try and find the necessary change of wearing apparel. Such a girl is laying a good foundation for an untidy, slovenly life. These habits will stick to her; and should she marry a man who is neat, tidy, and orderly, she will be a domestic thorn in his side continually. Somebody must “straighten up” after such a girl, and usually it is the tired mother who must make the weary steps. Home training has much to do in remedying such habits. Girls, and boys, too, should be taught the value of system—of putting things in the proper place. Such training will be of infinite value in after years. Let all the girls who read this resolve to “have a place for everything, and everything in its place,” and be sure and carry the resolution into every-day life.—Christian Standard.