A Woman’s Best Compliment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 17, 1913

A Woman’s Best Compliment

The finest compliment we have ever heard told of 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.” How many breakfast-tables are presided over by women who make an 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 in the morning.

The other woman, who wears any old thing to the breakfast-table, is also making a mistake; for that is the time when the men of the household 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.