Beautiful Girlhood compiled by Debra Maffett

eat properly and regularly, not making her stomach a dumping ground for
all the foolish likes and fancies of the palate. She will take a sufficient
amount of sleep in a properly ventilated room, not keeping late hours either
in retiring or rising. She will seek in all she does to live a quiet, simple,
natural life. The keeping of these simple rules of health will be of untold
benefit — and their breaking may lead to lifelong regret.
The body is not the only part of a girl that should be fitted for the duties of
womanhood. The girl needs knowledge of many things. The responsibilities
that will be hers as wife and mother go out in every direction, and she needs
to learn to be an all-around woman.
First in importance in this consideration is the cultivation of her own
nature so that she can be . . .
true in affection,
steady in purpose, and
reliable in responsibility.
She needs to be able to control herself, so that she can give up her desires
for the peace of her little realm, and be able to hold all the members of her
kingdom with the chains of love. The selfish and self-willed, the
tempestuous and stormy, the indolent and sluggish, the careless and
indifferent — all are out of the race. They can never make the best mothers.
It takes true women to make good mothers — women who can govern and
direct their own actions aright.
The girl needs to have a working knowledge of the responsibilities that will
be hers. She should know how to cook and bake, to wash and iron, to scrub
and clean, to sew and mend — in fact, how to do everything that a
housewife needs to do. If her circumstances become such that she does not
actually have this work to do, she will be able to direct the efforts of others
the better for knowing how the work is done.
The girl should know how to buy economically, both for the kitchen and
household, and for the wardrobe. Without this knowledge she will waste
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