Beautiful Girlhood compiled by Debra Maffett
Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale was written in 1922. Those years forming the transition period between childhood and womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and attractiveness, for there is nothing of more beauty and grace than the budding and blossoming of girlhood. But the young feet that travel this way are often fearful and uncertain, or willful and bold. Each and all have need of guidance; they need a helping hand along the way. This book is sent forth with a sincere desire to be a blessing. In a timeless way, this classic book offers practical, biblical wisdom on the issues every girl faces, from beauty to attitudes to relationships.
Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale was written in 1922. Those years forming the transition period between childhood and womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and attractiveness, for there is nothing of more beauty and grace than the budding and blossoming of girlhood. But the young feet that travel this way are often fearful and uncertain, or willful and bold. Each and all have need of guidance; they need a helping hand along the way. This book is sent forth with a sincere desire to be a blessing. In a timeless way, this classic book offers practical, biblical wisdom on the issues every girl faces, from beauty to attitudes to relationships.
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It is said that a person becomes like his friends. This is a very truthful<br />
saying, for association makes a great difference in the life of anyone.<br />
Especially is this true of the young. Girls in the teens will almost certainly<br />
be like those with whom they most intimately associate, especially if they<br />
have chosen their associates. Like begets like, and we naturally seek out and<br />
enjoy those who are congenial to us, passing <strong>by</strong> those whose tastes and<br />
manners are offensive. It is not only the personal touch that makes this<br />
likeness — but the exchange of ideas. By the interchange of thought and<br />
expression, all become to a great extent like-minded, each giving to the<br />
other something of himself, and receiving to himself of the other.<br />
What is true of personal friendships — is also true of book friendships. If I<br />
choose only the books that I like to read, and after a while give you a list of<br />
those books — you can know, though you never see me face to face, just<br />
what kind of person I am, just how my thoughts run, and what I admire<br />
most in people and things. And if I habitually choose books that I believe<br />
will be the best for me, and read them carefully until I understand them<br />
and make their thoughts my own — I will in time become like those books<br />
in thought, and will be lifted out of the rut I naturally would have run in.<br />
When a girl chooses her friends, she should as much as possible select those<br />
who will be a help to her. If she chooses the quiet, modest, sincere, earnest<br />
girls for her friends — she will become like them. But if her friends are<br />
mostly the thoughtless, giddy kind, though she had been a reasonably<br />
sensible girl in the beginning — she will soon be as her companions.<br />
So it is with books. If a girl will choose her books from those whose ideals<br />
are high and whose language is pure and clean — unconsciously she will<br />
mold her life like to those portrayed in the books she reads. But if her book<br />
friends are the giddy, impure, unchaste kind — you may be certain that the<br />
girl will become like them.<br />
I have heard the assertion that to go to any girl's bookcase and there study<br />
for a little while the books she reads, will give to one a true estimate of that<br />
girl's character — and I believe this is in the main true.<br />
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