The Benefits of a System by The Presbyterian Examiner

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Sep 25, 1913

The Benefits of a System

By The Presbyterian Examiner

EVERY young housekeeper who sits down and seriously studies out the subject will find herself a different being if she manages her affairs with system, or if she lets them manage her without it. It is true that before she is married all her study on the subject will be theoretical, and possibly somewhat impractical, and something like the house one builds and is enchanted with till coming to live in it. For there are things that only experience can teach, and matters where the experience of nobody else can be of any material service.

If her mother was a woman of system, the young housekeeper already has much of what she wants bred in her bone, as one may say. But if her mother was an invalid, was shiftless and thriftless, or was overwhelmed with troubles and babies, then the daughter has to strike out a path for herself. The sooner then she remembers that there are but seven days in the week, and that that period of time constitutes one revolution of the household, the sooner she will come into her kingdom and reign unmolested and undisturbed.—The Presbyterian Examiner.