BUSINESS HABITS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 6, 1879

BUSINESS HABITS.

The housekeeper who has no business habits makes but a poor appearance beside the one who has them. The latter has a fixed hour and day for every domestic duty; the former has things done when she thinks of it. The one replenishes before an article is exhausted; the other runs round and borrows. The one knows just how long an article ought to last; the other is robbed before her face and eyes. The one makes her “rags” pay for her “tins,” and her grease pay for her soap; the other has to give ready money for both commodities. The one has her house-cleaning done in May; with

the other it always dangles along into July. The one can see a visitor at almost any hour of the day; the other has to hurry and skurry to make herself presentable. The one always has something in reserve if an unexpected guest must be asked to dinner; the other has nothing but an apology. With the one all goes smoothly, noiselessly, pleasantly; with the other the jar is always evident, the house and its mistress and its servants are forever in a snarl. The one has business habits; the other has no habits at all.—Selected.