VERY SENSIBLE by Stephen Signal

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 30.

VERY SENSIBLE.

By Stephen Signal

One of our lady friends is a sensible woman. This is the way she talks concerning the ups and downs of life; and she is right in her views. We wish every woman had the same independent ideas. She says:—

“It matters not whether my dress is silk or cotton, so long as it is clean. I prefer a clean cotton gown to a dirty silk. Sometimes I have a visitor—a real live, heavy ‘swell.’ He or she finds me in a cotton gown, a shady one at that, whose only merit lies in its cleanliness, but what care I? My gown is cotton. My hands are red, because I do lots and lots of housework, but my brain is just as it always was, and I can hold my own, in spite of the cotton gown and red hands. If a visitor has any idea that I am not the proper person to be on friendly terms with, because I open my door in a cotton gown, it is the privilege of that visitor to walk down the steps and never ascend them again. If my matted rooms do not seem good in the eyes of my acquaintances who possess body Brussels carpets, they need not call. If I can not hang up Landseer’s pictures upon the wall, I am happy to get a handsome chromo in lieu thereof, since it would be worse than folly to go without some sort of ornamentation because the finest could not be obtained.”—Stephen Signal.