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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ecomes brighter lit than the noble women whose lives are counting for<br />
good. You, my little friend, choose well; for she whom you choose as your<br />
ideal, becomes your pattern.<br />
A noble ideal is worth striving for. The best cannot be obtained without<br />
great effort. Effort costs something. We do not drift to the best that is in us<br />
— but we gain the higher places <strong>by</strong> steep, hard climbing. Every girl has<br />
much within her to be overcome — and much to be developed. If her ideals<br />
lie in gaining culture and education — then must come years of hard study<br />
and application. If her aspirations run out to music, drawing, painting,<br />
sculpture — these accomplishments are perfected only after years of hard<br />
work. Does she aspire to be a housewife and mother? Then she must learn<br />
those homely arts that are woman's part in homemaking.<br />
Perhaps this latter vocation takes more earnest application and persistent<br />
effort than any other — for home touches the life so closely everywhere.<br />
Does our girl aspire to be pure and noble? Then she must give up all that<br />
defiles, and leave it out of her life.<br />
It is not enough to have good ideals. There must be a careful and<br />
persistent effort to live up to them. To keep these ideals perfect, often costs<br />
the sacrifice of other things that seem pleasant. Like the merchant of old<br />
who found a pearl of greatest price and sold all that he had to purchase it —<br />
so a girl, to keep her ideals pure, must be willing to give for that all else.<br />
And a girl will sacrifice much for her ideal, be it good or bad.<br />
It is not enough to strive for a life morally pure and noble. That is good; but<br />
the truly ideal life, is one lived for God. A life which does not in word and<br />
deed reflect the life and teachings of Christ, fails that much in being ideal.<br />
I never think of one who stands <strong>by</strong> her Christian ideals but that I remember<br />
a girl I knew years ago. She was a happy, blue-eyed girl with high ideals of<br />
morality and godliness, and with a purpose to be true to these in all her<br />
conduct. She had kept company with a young man for some time and they<br />
had become engaged to be married, and she gave him her whole heart's<br />
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