The Punctual Girl

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jun 18, 1914

The Punctual Girl

The punctual girl is always a thoughtful girl. She is the girl who does not delay in doing an errand; who never keeps the breakfast waiting while she repairs some forgotten damage to her clothes. No one is ever kept waiting while she sews a rip in her dress or a break in her glove. These things are all done in season. She never puts off doing a thing at the right time, because she has learned that when a thing has been attended to, and put away, there is no need to worry about that particular thing.

She is the girl who is at her desk on time if she is one of the great army of working girls. Her employer and her friends all know that she will be ready for business or pleasure at the appointed time.

This girl's nerves are in good order because she never has to hurry or worry to “catch up” some work that has been neglected at the proper time, and her life runs on smoothly and happily because no undone task or neglected appointment is worrying her, or making her restless. Character is not formed in a minute. The girl has been training herself for years to be punctual. She is ever ready for emergencies, for this habit of punctuality now touches her life in all its relations, and she is making her influence felt in her own family, at least, for they come to see the wonderful advantage of always being ready, always on time. The punctual girl, while she is earnest and womanly, has not lost any of her girlish charm. Her outlook is encouraging, new chances are constantly opening to her for advancement, because it is known that she can be relied upon.—Selected.