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title: 'Girls: Faults and Ideals - A Familiar Talk with Quotations from Letters'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'James Russell Miller'
date: 1892-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Personal Piety'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 19'
- 'Psalms 45'
- 'Proverbs 31'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/miller-1892-girls-faults-and-ideals-a-familiar-talk-with-quotations-from-letters
---

# Girls: Faults and Ideals - A Familiar Talk with Quotations from Letters

J.R. Miller calls young women to recognize and correct common faults—vanity, frivolity, gossip, irreverence—and to pursue modesty, earnestness, service, and moral/spiritual growth.

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