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 is no work that is worthwhile — and yet learned and performed<br />
without effort. Sluggards never make successes anywhere. The girl who<br />
would win for herself a place in the earning world, must be ready to<br />
work long and hard.<br />
There is no nobler profession for any girl to choose, than that of a teacher.<br />
Her years of preparation will be filled with hard work and persistent efforts,<br />
and the performing of that work is both wearing and vexing; but the results<br />
can be great. Not only should the teacher guide her pupils in paths<br />
of knowledge — but also into ways of truth and uprightness. Her moral and<br />
spiritual influence for good, can be great in the schoolroom, if she properly<br />
prepares herself for it and performs her work with the highest aims in view.<br />
The artist and musician can bring much pleasure and happiness into the<br />
world through their gifts, happiness that need stir only the best that is in<br />
men and women. But this work is complete, only after long effort and<br />
persistent application.<br />
The writer of books and short stories has a field before her which, followed<br />
in the right direction, can do much good in the world — but which, followed<br />
in another direction, will add only to the curse that is already in the world.<br />
The wrong kind of stories are better never written. The writer also meets<br />
much difficulty in getting started in life. Many who try, never succeed. It is<br />
at best a long, hard way — but one that is pleasant indeed to follow <strong>by</strong> those<br />
who love to do that kind of work.<br />
There are many openings for a girl in the business world that she can fill<br />
without detracting from her womanliness. Though it takes less preparation<br />
for business in the beginning, the work itself is one long school of hard<br />
work.<br />
There is another class of work into which many young girls are forced <strong>by</strong><br />
circumstances, work that makes them a living, and is honest enough — but<br />
which will not show the personality of the girl herself as do the professions I<br />
have been mentioning — and that work is such as is found in the factory,<br />
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