A Lamentable Mistake

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1904

A Lamentable Mistake

How terrible is the mistake those parents are making, who are constantly cherishing the selfishness of their daughters, by administering to their vanity, by loading them with finery, and exempting them from duties which they ought to discharge. How many a mother makes herself a slave, in order to make her daughter a lady; wears out her own energies, in order that her daughter may loll away her time in laziness, and waste her sympathies over the sickly sentimentalism of a shilling novel! And what a lady such a girl makes! A man who has regard for his future peace and prosperity, had better marry a great doll, on whose India-rubber face the red and white paint legitimately belong, than marry her; for what can humanity expect of a selfish wife—a cold-hearted and selfish mother?—Rev. G. C. Baldwin.