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A Housekeeper's Symphony

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 29, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 52.

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A Housekeeper's Symphony

By Fanny Waugh Davis

To do the best I can from morn till night, And pray for added strength with coming light; To make the family income reach alway, With some left over for a rainy day; To do distasteful things with happy face, To try to keep the odds and ends in place; To smile instead of frown at fate, Which placed me in a family always late To meals; to do the sewing, mending, and The thousand small things always near at hand, And do them always with a cheerful heart, Because in life they seem to be my part; To know the place for everything, and keep It there; to think, to plan, to cook, to sweep, To brew, to bake, to answer questions, To be the mainspring of the family clock, Or that effect, and see that no tick-tock Is out of time or tune, or soon or late— This is the only symphony which I Can ever hope to operate.
— Fanny Waugh Davis.