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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etter things of true womanhood. Just because many are doing it, the habit<br />
has lost none of its evil points, and has gained not a single good one.<br />
More dangerous still is the temptation to alcohol. So much has been said<br />
derogatory of total abstinence, that many fear they appear old-fashioned or<br />
narrow if they will not take a drink. But drunkenness is just as ugly and its<br />
effects, just as ghastly now as they ever were — and the only safe person, is<br />
the one who will not drink at all. Any indulgence in this respect, is a serious<br />
blot on a girlhood which would otherwise be beautiful. Our girls who are<br />
seeking for beautiful character, and who place worth upon their influence<br />
as real women, will not take up the habit, nor indulge occasionally — either<br />
in smoking or drinking any liquor. They will dare to stand out from their<br />
associates if necessary, as total abstainers. The path of beautiful girlhood<br />
leads away from every habit that tends to lower the standard of true<br />
womanhood.<br />
Girls and women mix with men and boys as equals in the business and<br />
work world, and many of those little courtesies that used to come to them<br />
because they were women were dropped. Because it is not expected of her<br />
that she shall be helpless and inefficient, the girl should not go to the<br />
opposite extreme and act bold or forward, nor <strong>by</strong> any of her actions make<br />
herself unwomanly. In her work life as in her social life, she should show<br />
herself a friend, sociable and approachable — but her guards should always<br />
be up that all may know that she remembers her place as a woman.<br />
The wise girl learns how to be friendly without being "fresh," and to<br />
be sociable without being silly. She may do many things her mother and<br />
grandmother never did in their girlhood — but she holds within herself just<br />
as high a standard of womanly purity and morality of life as they ever<br />
had. At heart our girls are just as sweet and pure, and innocent of wrong<br />
intent, as girls ever were, and any lowering of that standard comes about<br />
because of something wrong in the condition of heart, or purpose in the girl<br />
who does it — not because our modern girls are all wrong.<br />
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