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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MAKING HERSELF BEAUTIFUL<br />
"Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain; but a woman<br />
who fears the LORD shall be praised!" Proverbs 31:30<br />
Sometimes, much to my amusement, I read in the magazines those comical<br />
letters that girls write to the beauty specialists. If these letters could all be<br />
put together into one it would read something like this: "How am I to make<br />
myself pretty so that I shall be admired for my good looks? I want to be rid<br />
of all my blemishes, my freckles and pug nose and pimples and stringy hair.<br />
I would have my hands and arms very shapely, and I would be neither too<br />
stout nor too thin. Tell me, Miss Specialist, how to make myself beautiful."<br />
The wise man of old has answered this question in words that are most<br />
appropriate: "Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears<br />
the LORD shall be praised!"<br />
Every girl is a lover of beauty. <strong>Beautiful</strong> homes, beautiful furnishings,<br />
beautiful flowers, beautiful clothes, beautiful faces — anything wherein<br />
beauty is found, there will be found girls to admire it. From the time her<br />
little hands can reach up, and her ba<strong>by</strong> lips can lisp the words, she is<br />
admiring "pretty things." And when a little of that beauty is her own — her<br />
pleasure is unbounded.<br />
Every girl longs to be beautiful. There is in woman a nature, as deep as<br />
humanity, that compels her to strive for good looks. There is no more<br />
forlorn sorrow for a young girl, than for her to be convinced that she is<br />
hopelessly ugly and undesirable. Oh, the bitter tears that have been shed<br />
over freckles, or a rough and pimply skin, and the energy that has been<br />
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