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The Difference

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 11.

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The Difference.

It is a sad fact that woman is assumed to be able to keep her household with judgment and success without the smallest training for it. With the other sex, in their spheres, no such rule obtains. No man is given the command of a boat or a squad until he has proven himself master of at least the technicalities of his command. But a girl of eighteen passes from the school-room, where she has been in the position of a subordinate, at all times under control, to the management of a household where she is supreme and the dispenser of frowns or favors, the arranger of tasks and times, and without previous training in the care of herself expects to come to a good result in the management of a family.