Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women / On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And / Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, / Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their / Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

by G. S. Weaver

Lecture One.

GIRLHOOD.

Angels view Girlhood with Solicitude and Delight—Beauty no perpetual Pledge of Safety—Nothing in Man or Things impels a Provident Regard for it—Blossoming Womanhood an Object of Deep Interest and Pity—Girlhood's first Work is to Form a Character—It should be Pure and Energetic—Woman only a Thing—Her Education progressing—Physical Health should be Preserved—A Woman not Herself without Physical Strength—Woman must be Independent, and Earn her own Livelihood—Character must Embody Itself in an Outward Form to be of Service to the World[Page 9-21]