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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DREAMS<br />
As a dream when one awakes…Job 20:8<br />
Do you have dreams? I do not mean dreams when you are asleep — but<br />
those glorious ones that come when you are awake, where you are<br />
accomplishing the things you like to do, always succeeding in all your<br />
undertakings — dreams in which you taste the sweets of love and praise and<br />
beauty, where your upward way is lined with achievements, and failures are<br />
never known. What a foolish question for me to ask a girl! I might as well<br />
ask if you eat or sleep. You would be just as natural a girl without doing<br />
either, as to live without dreaming.<br />
Dreams are as much a part of your youth, as are your fair skin and<br />
sparkling eyes. It is impossible to think of a girl into whose life no bright<br />
dreams come. Such a life would be dark indeed.<br />
Dreams have a large place in character building. In them the dreamer<br />
works out many problems and comes to decisions as to what is right and<br />
wrong in many changing circumstances.<br />
If a girl will watch her dreams, she may know what kind of creature she is.<br />
If her dreams are of social conquests, fine clothes, and a life of gaiety — that<br />
is what she is in her heart, though her life may be ever so humdrum, she<br />
will never be happy until she gets these things she dreams of. She is fitting<br />
herself to be satisfied with nothing but that of which she dreams. Her<br />
nature is being shaped to fit that kind of life. And how little such a life<br />
brings in real happiness! After the best that it can give is all devoured — the<br />
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