Ryder, Annie H / 2008-07-19 00:00:00
EBOOK, HOLD UP YOUR HEADS, GIRLS! ***
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HOLD UP YOUR HEADS, GIRLS!
HELPS FOR GIRLS, IN SCHOOL AND OUT.
BY ANNIE H RYDER.
"'Handsome is that handsome does,--hold up your heads, girls!' was
the language of Primrose in the play when addressing her daughters."
WHITTIER
COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY D. LOTHROP & Co.
To My Girls Everywhere.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
I. HOW TO TALK
II. HOW TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH NATURE
III. HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF WORK
IV. WHAT CAN I DO?
V. WHAT TO STUDY
VI. ENGLISH LITERATURE AND OTHER STUDIES
VII. THE COMMONPLACE
VIII. MOODS
IX. WOMANLINESS
X. GIRLS AND THEIR FRIENDS
XI. YOUTHS AND MAIDENS
HOLD UP YOUR HEADS, GIRLS!
INTRODUCTION.
When we make an object with our hands, we frequently notice that the
most care is needed as we near its completion. A false stroke of the
brush will change an angel into a demon, a misguided blow of the mallet
will shiver the statue into fragments: so, in the work which attempts
to form a noble womanhood, all the efforts of years of training will
be marred or rendered ineffectual, if the right influence, proper
occupation, and wholesome encouragement are not given to a girl in
the period which borders on womanhood.
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