OUR GIRLS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 27, 1896

OUR GIRLS.

Our girls do not realize how much the happiness of home depends on them. The mother has been called the better half of her husband, and I think our girls can be called the better half of mama in more senses than one. Do not be too dependent on your mother for the direction of your ideas. Study them out yourself. If you have plenty of time on your hands, do not loll around, and wander from room to room after mama, but read awhile to grandma, who is too dull-eyed to read to herself. Anticipate mama’s wishes; ease her cares. Try to rise up to some one of the requirements of home every day. Come out of yourself and try not only to be happy, but make others so. There is something very beautiful about the affection of brother and sister. You can be a coworker with mother in directing the headstrong boy into right paths, not by speaking unkindly; even if you feel vexed, restrain yourself, and try to be pleasant; if you cannot, then keep still. Better to say nothing than to speak cross. Respect your parents before the younger children. Make mother your confidant. Do not forget that she prays for you.—Christian Work.