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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obedient, kind, and thoughtful — then she is a constant comfort. But if she<br />
is always contending and arguing, speaking up in a brash manner when she<br />
is crossed, or scolding and quarreling with the younger children — then she<br />
makes home almost unbearable. If she has a separate set of manners for her<br />
own family, from what she uses when with company with her friends —<br />
then she is a constant disappointment. I never like the blank look that a<br />
mother's face takes, when someone commends the gentle kindness of a<br />
daughter of this type. She does not wish to lower her daughter in her<br />
friend's estimation, nor can she heartily agree as to her daughter's<br />
kindness.<br />
A girl should have her full share of responsibility in the home. She should<br />
go about her work willingly — not as if it were an irksome duty which she<br />
was ill-disposed to perform. She should count herself one of the family, one<br />
of the children, having only equal rights and privileges with the rest.<br />
A girl and her father should be good friends. Too often this is not the case<br />
— but they live lives entirely apart from each other in interest and<br />
enjoyment. This is not always altogether the girl's fault — but it is a<br />
condition she can remedy to a great extent <strong>by</strong> a little thoughtful kindness.<br />
Father very often has been too busy to keep acquainted with his growing<br />
daughters, and finds them rather out of his range. They seem as<br />
much strangers to him, as are their young friends whom he meets in the<br />
home. He thinks they do not care to have him around, and takes himself off<br />
to his room or chair or on the porch, and leaves them to themselves.<br />
One girl who found herself thus a stranger to her father, formed the habit<br />
of going to meet him each evening at the door when he came home; and<br />
when she could she was at his office, so that they might walk the whole way<br />
home together. It was only a little while until this homecoming was the<br />
happiest part of both their days, and many loving confidences were<br />
exchanged, which would never have been possible without her first step.<br />
Another family had the "father's hour," as they called it, the first hour after<br />
supper, and both he and the others planned their day to have this hour<br />
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