A Word to Girls:

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1871

THE woman who is indifferent to her looks is no true woman. God meant woman to be attractive, to look well, to please; and it is one of her duties to carry out this intention of her Maker. But that dress is to do it and to suffice, is more than I can be brought to believe. Just because I do love to see girls look well, as well as live to some purpose, I would urge upon them such a course of reading and study as will confer such charms as no modiste can supply.

N. P. Willis wrote once a very pretty paragraph on the power of education to beautify. That it absolutely chiseled the features; that he had seen many a clumsy nose and thick pair of lips so modified by thought awakened and active sentiment as to be unrecognizable. And he put it on that ground that we so often see people, homely and unattractive in youth, bloom in middle life into a softened Indian summer of good looks and mellow tones.—Sel.