Sociology
She was a beautiful, well-developed girl of thirteen. Her bright, eager face, with its changing expression, was a fascination at all times. It seemed unusually earnest and serious that particular morning as she stood waiting the opportunity to speak to me. She had asked to wai...
All civilization begins in sensation and feeling. The most abstruse and abstract thought of to-day is possible because ages and ages ago men living in caves were hungry and soug...
3. CHAPTER III--THE MENTAL SIDEThe girl in her teens does think. She has been called careless, thoughtless, inattentive and a day-dreamer. Though these things are often true of her, she is on the whole a thin...
2. CHAPTER II--THE PHYSICAL SIDEThat mankind has a spiritual, mental and _physical_ side to his nature has been acknowledged for many centuries. That they are of equal importance has been accepted but for a co...
1. CHAPTER I--THE TEEN PERIODShe was a beautiful, well-developed girl of thirteen. Her bright, eager face, with its changing expression, was a fascination at all times. It seemed unusually earnest and serio...
10. CHAPTER X--HER TEACHERWhen for a moment one remembers the girl in her teens, the long line that lives in the memory from those just thirteen up through the sweetest and prettiest at sixteen, to the b...
6. CHAPTER VI--HER RELATION TO THE SUNDAY-SCHOOLThat the Sunday-school has no relation whatever to vast numbers of girls in their teens is a fact apparent to any one interested in the girlhood of that period. And it is a fact...
5. CHAPTER V--THE SOCIAL SIDEI have been spending the day with adolescence, surrounded by boys and girls in their teens and young men and women just outside. It is now the evening of Memorial Day, and I hav...
9. CHAPTER IX--HER RELATION TO THE EVERYDAYThe girl in her teens, although she is able now and then through her imagination to transfer herself to a land of day-dreams, where all she desires is hers, for the most part is...
8. CHAPTER VIII--HER RELATION TO THE BIBLEOne beautiful June Sunday I stood waiting for my car at the transfer corner, thinking about the Sunday problem and watching the crowd hurrying away to the parks and the lakes, w...
7. CHAPTER VII--HER RELATION TO THE CHURCHThe girl in her teens, in common with all humanity, needs the upward pull. Fresh air, suitable clothing, nourishing food, so desirable in all stages of her development, become,...