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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these desires, will work and labor and study that she may advance, and<br />
grow in learning and ability. She is not thinking particularly of outstripping<br />
others — but of going to the highest point possible for herself. She is able all<br />
the time to appreciate the efforts and successes of others, and rejoices in<br />
their advancement. Such ambition can never be wrong.<br />
2. But the other ambition rises from a different motive. The desire is not so<br />
much for goodness and excellence in themselves — as for the honor and<br />
praise such excellence might bring. Such selfish ambition is satisfied with<br />
that which is inferior — if it only surpasses what others have. In fact, this<br />
ambition feeds only on the failure and discomfiture of others. She who<br />
possesses it wants to outshine her peers, to rise higher, to be more in the<br />
limelight than the rest. This ambition will cause a girl to steal, or even to<br />
sell her honor, that she may have means to clothe herself better than others.<br />
And those who are fired with this unholy ambition, will not shrink from<br />
perjury and falsehood to put down one who is opposed to them or promises<br />
to outstrip them.<br />
Every girl's ambitions run more freely in certain directions. She who lives<br />
on a lower level, is ambitious to be pretty, witty, and attractive. She is busy<br />
trying to win the praise and flattery of her acquaintances, to be thought the<br />
most beautiful, the most attractive, the best dressed, the best liked, the<br />
most-sought-after girl of her set. And if she gains her goal and realizes the<br />
fullness of her ambitions, she has but a handful of empty husks for her<br />
reward.<br />
Other ambitions rise to a higher level, and the girl moved <strong>by</strong> them seeks to<br />
have ability in some useful and remunerative occupation. She seeks to<br />
become a nurse, or physician, a businesswoman or teacher, or to be a good<br />
housewife and mother. These are all good, noble callings, and if followed<br />
after with honest ambition and purpose, will bring usefulness and<br />
happiness into her life.<br />
But the highest ambition asks that the life of our girl be given for the good<br />
of mankind, that she be of all the service possible and in the best possible<br />
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