A LESSON FOR GIRLS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 20, 1879

A LESSON FOR GIRLS.

That was a wise father, who, on hearing his little daughter request her brother to drive a few nails in the woodhouse for her, said he would teach her how to do it herself. She was apt, and drove in all the nails successfully. So pleased was she with her success that she would have set a double row around the shed if her father had not concluded that these would answer for the present. “There, that little lesson helps to make you independent, my girl,” he said. “Now, I will teach you some day how to catch and harness up a horse. You have already learned to drive a gentle one. Learn to sharpen a knife, and whittle too, without cutting your fingers. Don’t let the doors creak for want of an oiled feather, or the little children’s boots get hard in the winter for want of a little grease.” Take a lesson from this, girls. You don’t know where you will be cast away sometime during your life. The most helpless people I ever met are those who can only do one kind of work. Learn to help yourselves, even if sometimes you trench upon “boys’ work.”—Selected.