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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you cannot see the good that loving hands and hearts bring to you — then<br />
you need to give serious attention to that which is obstructing your vision.<br />
There is a spirit of discontent that makes the girl restless and uneasy.<br />
Now, I would not have you fully satisfied with things just as they are, so<br />
that you will not strive to improve; but that dissatisfaction that keeps a<br />
girl fretting about her fate spoils her happiness now, and unfits her to<br />
appreciate what may be in the future.<br />
Selfishness is another fault that spoils the beauty of many lives. She who<br />
is selfish, looks always to her own pleasure first. If others are displeased<br />
and inconvenienced, it matters little to her, just so long as her own desires<br />
are met. This form of selfishness can creep into the lives of those who desire<br />
to serve God. I have seen girls who, though they were Christians, were so<br />
insistent about little things, so determined to have their own way — that<br />
they spoiled the beauty that Christ would have put into their lives.<br />
This kind of selfishness will show out again in the way that a girl will enter<br />
into her church work. She can become so engrossed with her Sunday<br />
school, or league, or her attendance at the general services that her<br />
presence there, or her time given to work for her beloved church — may<br />
mean the robbing of her mother of opportunity to get out at all. It is pitiful<br />
to see a girl engaged in even a good cause, if such continually keeps her<br />
mother or her sister at home with the cares found there. A fair division, is<br />
the right thing under such circumstances.<br />
Again, selfishness will show out in the fact that the girl's clothes are so<br />
much nicer and more up to date, than what her mother wears. It may be<br />
that Mother is willing for her daughter to have the best — but that does not<br />
change the fact that the daughter is selfish if she takes the best always.<br />
Over-sensitiveness is another great fault. Dena, a young woman of<br />
beautiful character, had sensitiveness as a besetting fault. At the least<br />
rebuke or criticism, she would become so hurt and mortified, that she<br />
would weep for hours. And many times when the speaker had not thought<br />
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