Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

popular error with a large class to regard work as
degrading. Therefore young men are very anxious
to educate themselves to become teachers, clerks,
merchants, lawyers, and to occupy almost any
position that does not require physical labor.
Young women regard housework as demeaning.
And although the physical exercise required to
perform household labor, if not too severe, is
calculated to promote health, yet they will seek for
an education that will fit them to become teachers
or clerks, or will learn some trade which will
confine them indoors to sedentary employment.
The bloom of health fades from their cheeks, and
disease fastens upon them, because they are robbed
of physical exercise and their habits are perverted
generally. All this because it is fashionable! They
enjoy delicate life, which is feebleness and decay.
True, there is some excuse for young women
not choosing housework for employment, because
those who hire kitchen girls generally treat them as
servants. Frequently their employers do not respect
them and treat them as though they were unworthy
to be members of their families. They do not give
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