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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ecause he smokes, when deep down in his heart he knows he is being<br />
both disobedient and deceitful.<br />
There are indeed many ways one may deceive himself. Sometimes men<br />
have given liberally to a good cause, hoping that their good deed would<br />
make up for an act of dishonesty. Many a church or hospital or school has<br />
been endowed because the giver thought his doing so, would smother his<br />
feelings of regret or soothe the fretting of a wounded conscience.<br />
Temptation to such insincerity has come to us in little things or greater —<br />
but the sincere heart will not yield.<br />
To be honest with self means to look things over with a sincere heart and to<br />
do right, because it is right. When we do good that we might appear good<br />
to others, in spite of deception in the heart, we deceive ourselves. If we are<br />
trying this, our true selves will come out when we least expect it. Perhaps<br />
more people deceive themselves, than are ever deceived <strong>by</strong> others! It pays<br />
to be honest with ourselves all the time.<br />
It is just as necessary to be honest toward others in every act.<br />
It was a bitterly cold morning and Betty buttoned her coat up close to her<br />
throat, just as she knew her mother wished her to do. But it was not<br />
because of the cold that she obeyed her mother so carefully about her coat.<br />
That morning she had put on a blouse which her mother had asked her not<br />
to wear to school — and the buttoned coat hid it from her mother's eyes.<br />
Betty was both disobedient and dishonest.<br />
We sometimes think that honesty pertains only to money matters. It is true<br />
that we should always be honest to the last penny in all business dealings —<br />
but honesty also touches every other department of life. To copy, cheat, or<br />
to take advantage in any other way at school, in order to gain a grade, is just<br />
as dishonest in its nature as to steal, or to forge a check. The principle is the<br />
same, the difference being only in the magnitude of the deed.<br />
To take advantage of the teacher's back being turned to play pranks, is also<br />
dishonest. To pretend friendship which one does not feel, to smile and<br />
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