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CHAPTER
20
WORDS
OF HELP FOR OUR GIRLS
DO
NOT dress showily, beyond your means, in such a way as to attract attention, or
so that people will notice your dress more than you. Dress for health and
comfort. Do
not flirt. Flirting is a horrid outrage upon the most holy and exalted feelings
of the human soul and the most sacred and important relations of life. Do
not dance. I have often wondered how girls who have any self-respect can yield
themselves, especially when attired in the flimsy costume of a ballroom, to the
embrace of strange men whose morals may be worse than doubtful. It does not seem
fit that the body of a young lady, meant to be the temple of the Holy Ghost,
should be whirled through the maze of a waltz by one whose linen may be spotless
but whose soul is dark with the ruin of some of your sisters—sisters who,
though fallen now, were once “white as the beautiful snow.” You should have
nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men. Music
is elevating, and the ability to produce it is a delightful accomplishment. Do
not neglect music. Take
advantage of every opportunity for reading, selecting such books as will give
you suitable training and practical information for a good, useful, and noble
life. Do not read novels, when there are so many good books you can read. Miss
L. Hagerty once wrote: “The sweetest girl I ever knew was gentle, cheerful,
bright, and true.” Any girl possessing these qualities is sure to be
considered “a sweet and charming girl.” If she is gentle in her manner and
her dress, gentle toward the sick and the aged; not a giggling, boisterous,
foolish girl, but a gentle, reserved, and refined maiden: cheerful at all times
and under all circumstances, always hopeful and striving to make others happy;
witty, but never sarcastic, and true—true to herself, true to her parents,
true to her friends, and true to her God—who could help calling such a maiden
“the sweetest girl”! Reader,
do you possess these qualities? If not, begin at once to attain them. It is
possible.
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