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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to noble character. Stories of murder and crime that stir the mind with<br />
horror or excitement, or that make heroes of evil characters — are not<br />
wholesome. It is almost as bad to read books that make you intimate with<br />
bad characters — as to make personal friends of that sort of people. In<br />
both, you learn their intimate thoughts and motives, and will condone their<br />
wrongs if their personality has appealed to you. More or less, my young<br />
reader, you will become like these people whom you admire and like to read<br />
about.<br />
Light, frivolous reading brings the brain into a condition where it is almost<br />
impossible for it to grasp and hold more weighty and important matter.<br />
When the girl who habitually reads novels undertakes to read anything that<br />
requires thought — she may not comprehending a thing. She will throw the<br />
book down and say, "It is not interesting, and I see nothing in it!"<br />
But let her keep at more serious and noble reading, going over and over the<br />
same paragraph or chapter until she does understand it — she will in time<br />
become able to grasp the thoughts as she reads. And if she keeps on at the<br />
serious and noble reading — she will lose her appetite for the light stuff; it<br />
will seem chaffy and foolish to her.<br />
It will not hurt any girl to read a few noble stories; and, in fact, if the right<br />
kind of stories are chosen, she will learn much that is useful and good<br />
through story reading. But she who wishes to become educated and make<br />
her reading a means of heart and life culture, must select the greater<br />
portion of her books from those authors who deal with facts in life. Works<br />
of history, biography, and other branches of learning, are good for all.<br />
Books of travel are very good, for they make one acquainted with the people<br />
of other lands. In the great field of choice, pick out those book friends that<br />
will widen the outlook and lift up the standards of life.<br />
Books can be the greatest of blessing in the life of a girl — or they can<br />
become her curse. Which will you have them to be in yours?<br />
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