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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heart is left as empty and hungry as before. Such dreams are so much<br />
wasted time.<br />
Perhaps her dreams are of romance and love, and she builds great castles in<br />
the air around that time in her life when one shall come who looks upon<br />
her as the best and most to be desired of all earthly creatures. She clothes<br />
him in the richest of garments and in fine carriages, and he carries her to<br />
riches and luxury. She is all outside the plain life as she finds it. Her eyes<br />
are large and dreamy as she looks into the magical future to which she is<br />
coming. Such dreams are foolish and silly, and never build up good, sound<br />
common sense. They unfit the girl for usefulness and make her unable to<br />
appreciate the good about her. She will pass <strong>by</strong> true love with a frown of<br />
disgust — while she is waiting for her love dream to come true. Such<br />
dreaming is not only wasting time — but is making the character soft and<br />
mushy.<br />
Again, the girl's dreams are of the time when she shall have a true lover, a<br />
husband, a home, and children. She looks ahead in her dreams and sees<br />
how she wishes to be a true wife, a good mother, and to fill the place<br />
honorably. She, in her dreams, sees many of the very circumstances that<br />
have come up in the lives of men and women around her, and works out<br />
these problems, always with the thought of God and right. She never allows<br />
herself to dream of being other than a true woman, behaving in a womanly<br />
way. Such dreams, if not carried to excess, are true character builders. A<br />
girl should look ahead to what she expects in life, and endeavor to fit<br />
herself to fill the place as it should be filled.<br />
Yet again, a girl may allow her dreams to dwell upon things that are not<br />
pure, and she may sip of forbidden pleasures through her imaginations. It<br />
is possible for her to become vile in her heart, with a mind as foul as the<br />
vilest character on the street — and yet live apparently a pure life, just<br />
<strong>by</strong> unclean dreaming. Such a girl has all her guards down and will, when<br />
the temptation comes strong, fall into acts of sin, as well as thoughts of sin.<br />
Such dreams are sinful in the extreme and cannot be found in the girlhood<br />
beautiful.<br />
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