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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While it is true that customs change all the time, there are circumstances<br />
which cause these changes to come much faster at some periods than<br />
others. These seasons of rapid change, of course bring more problems than<br />
are found at other times.<br />
Since the great War, we have been passing through one of those seasons of<br />
rapid change, and our girls have had problems to meet that are different<br />
from those which had come before.<br />
One of the greatest changes is the place allowed to women and girls in the<br />
business and working world — and the confusion of manners and customs<br />
that have come as they adjust themselves to the new conditions. While girls<br />
have many more opportunities, their temptations are also more — and our<br />
girls have not always met these changes and temptations to the best<br />
advantage.<br />
One great change is in the manner of dress. In your grandmothers' youth,<br />
girls wore too many heavy, close-fitting clothes for health and comfort. Now<br />
both health and comfort are so well considered, that those who design the<br />
clothes forget that they are also meant as a covering to the body! But our<br />
girls should remember that, no matter what the style or cut of her clothes,<br />
the godly woman is always modest and unassuming, with nothing in her<br />
manners or the way she is dressed, that will lower the conception of true<br />
womanhood in the minds of those who see her. It is always the careless and<br />
thoughtless girl, who dresses and conducts herself in a way to arouse<br />
unchaste thoughts in others.<br />
In many circles smoking is common for women and girls. The changing<br />
custom that makes dress such a fetish, skips over the unhealthy effects of<br />
tobacco — yet the effects of tobacco are just as bad now as they ever were.<br />
While we would not say that smoking destroys all the beauty of girlhood, we<br />
must admit that this habit is becoming a serious blot on American girlhood,<br />
and that every girl indulging in the habit is placing herself in bondage to<br />
something that may seriously injure her health and make her unfit for the<br />
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