Beautiful Girlhood

What can be more beautiful than the budding and blossoming of girlhood? Those years of transition from childhood to womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and promise. But the young feet that travel this way may be unsteady and unsure. Each could use guidance, a helping hand along the way. To encourage our girls to a nobler life and truer ideals is the task of this book.

Far away there in sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them,
but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

"I remember, as a young girl growing up during the 1920s and '30s, receiving Beautiful Girlhood as a gift. Reading it again after many years brought back such good memories. We need to encourage our daughters to desire the same ideals and values today."