Guide for Catholic Young Women; Especially for Those Who Earn Their Own Living (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LI. ADVANTAGES OF DILIGENCE. ON'T be afraid of labor or trouble. The industrious girl will not have near as much work to do as the lazy and shiftless one. Why? Because she manages so that her work is done with much less trouble. She goes right at it without allowing it ever to get the upper hand of her. If a good deal is to be done in the morning, she gets things ready over-night. A great many things can be done better then than in the morning. One girl will get up in the morning: there is the fire all out; no kindling-wood ready; the sticks all wet; the kettle to be filled with water; the coffee to be ground; the meat to be chopped; everything to be done. She says, "Dear me there is no living in such a place as this. I don't know where my head is, I've so much to do." Another girl, of more orderly habits, has had plenty of time over-night to make all these preparations. She has only to light a match, and in a minute has a good blazing fire; her breakfast is all ready to put on to cook; and without a bit of fuss or disturbance of mind it is ready at the moment. So, from one year's end to another, where such a girl is, there is peace and satisfaction all around, while with the other there is nothing but trouble and sorrow. This girl has never too much to do, and does all well. The other is half the time overloaded with work, and does it half, while the rest of her time she is lazy and idle, and committing sin right and left; for the old saying is true: ' The devil finds work enough for idle hands to do." A person who performs her task, whatever it may be, with diligence and intelligence grows more and more perfect in it all the time. Look into the stores and factories and dress-making establishments, and these are the girls who...