her mirth to bewilderment and her innocence to doubt and suspicion,
wears her down utterly; she waits for darkness to hasten to wash away what her blood has stained, and to hide the trace of what she imagines a shame that fate has unjustly cast upon her.
Many women have told of the kinds of fear that came over them at the start of this new stage. Some believed they had lost their virginity, and suffered such torments of doubt as made them imagine the disgrace that had crept into their minds through ignorance of the truth.
Others remained, even after marriage, unaware of the source of those red drops, silently concealing what they were unable to understand.
I lay the blame upon the mother, in this East of ours, for the disturbances she causes in her daughter's psyche by her rigidity and reserve in that daughter's upbringing. She does not appreciate change, nor does she consider it her duty to impart such truths to her daughter when she expects their occurrence, and to direct her thoughts, in the guise of counsel, toward anticipating this stage, so that the girl may receive it knowing its truth and understanding its consequences.
Yes! The mother's frankness in such matters is the hand that tears away the film of ignorance and rescues her daughter from pitfalls that may lead her to delusions and fancies she can well do without. Everything the girl hears frankly from her mother, preparing her to meet the events of life, is stamped upon her mind; for the mother is the one person in whom the girl has learned to place all her trust, and on whom she relies to protect her from the dangers that could affect her future.
What the Eastern woman suffers from the pains of ignorance of life's surprises and the developments they entail comes either of the mothers' own ignorance, or of their closing their eyes to the duty of teaching their girls the truths of things — an ignorance that often delivers them into the grip of pain, and leaves them exposed to bearing afflictions and wounds they endure because of the mothers' neglect.
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For some time now, whenever she passes, people have begun to point her out.
That is because her beauty is indeed a radiant beauty: she tends it regularly with a nourishing cream containing the well-known substance 'Penaten.'
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