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R.W. Hunter Describes Ideal Girl, June 26, 1925

The Ideal Girl

By Robert Wesley Hunter, Marshall, Route 3

It has well been said that a bad girl is the worst thing on earth and a good girl is the best thing on earth; therefore, an ideal girl is the best thing that this world possesses, for she is surely a good girl. She is more than a human to me. She is a fairy, a sylph, I don’t know what she is—anything that no one ever saw and everything that everybody wanted. She lives a life beyond the gainsay of all critics. Her virtue is of the highest type; her character is written in beaming letters of gold in an open book and tells a true history of her true, faithful, joyous, earnest, honest life. Her honesty and truthfulness can never be surpassed by anyone.

She is honest, first with God, second with her friends, and third with her self. She lives a life not for self alone, but for her Creator and friends.

A strong, health body is one of the best assets of any girl. Her happiness, social standing, and life’s success depend, to a great extent, on the condition of her health. If her health is not good, she can not take her place in society; she is often receiving help but seldom giving. Her usefulness is measured, not by what she receives from the world, but by what she gives to the world. A good healthy girl, who always meets the world with a smile, drives out darkness and scatters sunshine wherever she goes. A weakly girl who is always complaining drives out the sunshine with darkness.

A girl of this day should have at least a high school education, and the more education she has the better it is for her. Her education does not consist of book knowledge alone. She should be able to converse on most subjects, to grasp new ideas and to intelligently solve problems for herself. To polish her understanding and neglect her manners, is, of all things, the worst she could do. The ideal girl puts honesty before wisdom and good nature before wit. She not only understands what is good, but practices it.

The women of today are given a voice in the government. They have equal privileges with the men at the ballot box. They should, therefore, know something of politics. The girl who does not make herself acquainted with the political world and vote intelligently is giving the lower class of people the advantage, for they will surely be represented at the polls.

She need not necessarily be a girl possessing a great fortune in money, but she should know how to spend what money she does have to the best interest of mankind.

Above all things, she should be educated in home making. The women are the home makers; and if they fail to make good, happy homes, the work will never be done by anyone else.

A girl who does not love, honor, and obey her parents is not an ideal girl. If she is obedient in all things to her parents, she will be loved more by her friends. She must be a friend-making girl, and to be this she must be a friend to all, the rich and poor, the great and the small. She must not only live, honor, and obey her parents, and be a friend to all; but she must be lovable. If she is an ideal girl she knows all the common rules of etiquette. She is able to adapt herself to circumstances, and to give her friends a good time, but in the right way. In fun and pleasure she knows where right ends and wrong begins. She is always cheerful and gay, and never wears a sarcastic look. All girls have a love for the opposite sex: the ideal girl knows how to control and direct that love.

An ideal girl is a consecrated Christian; her life proves to the world that she is a Christian. She keeps in close communion with Christ by daily Bible reading and prayer. She is not a shirker in the church, but she tries to lead people on to higher planes of Christian living. She is not found pleasure riding with boys on Sunday, but it is found in her place in B.Y.P.U. and other church activities.

In order to attain fully to the requisites of an ideal girl, she must add to all the other requirements beauty: not the beauty bought from the drug store in cosmetic jars, but a Nature-given beauty. Her size is not so very important, but a girl of medium size is more attractive than one too large or too small.

Any girl who lives up to all the requirements of this paper is not, as someone has said, “the eighth wonder of the world,” but she moves the other seven ack and takes her place as the first wonder of the world.

From the front page of The News-Record, Marshall, N.C.—“The Only Newspaper Published in Madison County.” June 26, 1925

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