p. 10 | DON'TS FOR MOTHERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 42.

DON'TS FOR MOTHERS.

Don't try to do two days' work in one, and, in your home making, beware lest you become a veritable fiend of neatness.

If work you must, simplify your duties, so that they will not prove a weariness to the flesh. Never stand when you can sit down. When waiting at the counter for change, why neglect the stool close at hand? It is only a matter of five minutes, perhaps, but it may be five minutes too long, and then, how your poor tired back rebels!

Don't save horse-car fare for the sake of taking home a bag of candy. It is a foolish woman who will squander her pennies on trash, and then walk her legs nearly off to make up the deficit.

Don't try to do without your lunch when the hour arrives, no matter how long and discouraging your shopping list may be.

In short, strive not to be an amateur in the art of caring for yourself, but in the details of life look well to it that they are made subservient to your womanly needs.—Selected.