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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shop, or store. The girl who must do this kind of work, can do well what she<br />
does, and can fill a worthy place. But in the majority of cases the girls found<br />
here are doing only such work until the time when they shall go to life's<br />
greatest responsibility — the making of a home.<br />
There is a strong prejudice against the doing of housework for a living. This<br />
arises no doubt from the idea of servitude; but all work is service of one<br />
kind or another. There is no work that is more necessary or capable of<br />
bringing more real pleasure, than housework. Any girl who can do this<br />
work, will need not be ashamed of her calling. If she uses the spare<br />
moments she can find for study and reading, she need not let her mind<br />
starve, and become but a drudge, because this is her calling. All needful<br />
work is honorable — if it is done well and for a good purpose.<br />
A mistake that many girls make who must go out to work, is that of neglect<br />
of home duties. They allow themselves to go on from year to year with no<br />
knowledge of household work. They cannot cook a good meal, nor make a<br />
garment. It would be impossible for them to do washing and ironing<br />
properly, both for lack of skill and because of fatigue.<br />
Such girls, many of whom can hope to marry only poor men who are able to<br />
give them but a small allowance for household purposes, come to marriage<br />
without any knowledge of housework, or of the buying-value of money.<br />
Here is the cause of many home wrecks. Every girl should remember that<br />
first of all, she is a woman, and the woman in her will desire and claim a<br />
home of her own someday; and if she is to be a success there, she must<br />
make some preparation for that calling.<br />
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