p. 195 | A Plain Talk

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1874

A Plain Talk.

An old-fashioned woman, writing in the Watchman and Reflector, speaks thus of some of our young seminary girls: “I have found in the class-room that the girls with the most on the outside of their heads have the least inside. Last summer I heard a fashionable young lady read her graduating essay, earnestly demanding a ‘wider sphere for women,’ while her chest was so narrowed by artificial means that she could hardly read her essay. She evidently thought this whole world a ‘pent up Utica’ that was confining her powers; but all the poor girl needed was sufficient strength and independence of character to free herself from the thraledom of fashion, and go to work in an earnest way to bring nearer to Christ the world she had found so sadly out of order. Some of you, my dear girls, may be filled with ‘infinite longings’ for a ‘career.’ ‘Let me tell you that what our sex most needs at present is women who, unembarrassed by fashionable drapery, can walk a few miles without being tired—women whose thinking powers are not injured, who find a ‘career’ in earnestly doing her Master’s work, however homely.’—The Christian.