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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There are many things to be taken into consideration <strong>by</strong> the girl who is<br />
making choice of her lifework. She wants to be a success, not only in her<br />
work, but in her life — so that as much good as possible will be the result of<br />
her having lived.<br />
The first consideration with any girl is no doubt her own desires and tastes.<br />
What would be pleasure to one — would be irksomeness to another; and no<br />
one can do her best at what is always unpleasant. Her next consideration<br />
will be her ability to do what she wants to do. Has she talent for that<br />
particular work? Are her health and physical strength sufficient to warrant<br />
her undertaking it? It would be foolish to give time and means, in preparing<br />
for that for which one is naturally unfitted.<br />
Another point to consider seriously is the associations into which her<br />
choice would lead her. She must remember that to fill her place in life, she<br />
must be first of all a woman, with all that that can mean, and to undertake<br />
any work that would make her less womanly, less able to fill the ideals of<br />
real womanhood — would be both unwise and sinful. There are many<br />
things that a woman could do — but which in doing, she would be thrown<br />
into company with all kinds of men in a way so intimate, that she could<br />
keep neither their respect nor her own. Such a choice would be madness;<br />
for she would be destroying what in woman is the most beautiful<br />
— modesty and purity.<br />
A work, to be worthy of a choice, should be needful, uplifting, and noble.<br />
No other choice is worthy the consideration of any girl. She should ask<br />
herself seriously: Will this work I intend to do make the world better, or<br />
help in any of its necessary toil? Shall I, in doing it, be doing my part in<br />
lifting the burdens of life? Will it make me a better woman for the doing, or<br />
at least leave me as good a woman as I am?<br />
Life is not all made up of pleasure and frolic — and our work should be<br />
something that is of real service.<br />
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