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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Girls who are guided properly through the age of first love, are reserved and<br />
cautious. It is not always easy for a girl to submit to the advice of Mother<br />
and Father, to keep out of the social whirl, to remain a little girl, to dress<br />
modestly and act as quietly as she should; but every girl who will bring<br />
herself into obedience now, will have much to be thankful for in coming<br />
years. At no time in a girl's life does she need her mother's oversight, as in<br />
those years when the love nature is waking, and new experiences are<br />
crowding in upon her.<br />
A girl should not go out alone with a boy, nor should she be one of a crowd<br />
of boys and girls out at night, or off on a long hike or ride — unless they are<br />
properly chaperoned. All these safeguards about a girl are like a wall of<br />
protection to her.<br />
"You act as though you cannot trust me," said one girl because her mother<br />
insisted that during these years she should be carefully guarded.<br />
"I do trust you, Daughter; but I would not have you placed in a precarious<br />
position. You are not yet old enough to be safe in relying wholly on your<br />
own judgment."<br />
Generally when a girl has passed her sixteenth birthday, she begins to see<br />
things more clearly, and possibly begins to understand what a blessing her<br />
mother's care has been to her. If she is a girl of ordinarily good judgment,<br />
she will in another year or two, begin to look at things from the standpoint<br />
of a young woman — not with the excited eyes of a child!<br />
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