This period of unrest, of wanting something that we have not, commences between the ages of fourteen and sixteen. In exceptional cases, it may be hastened or retarded. At first, it is mere unrest, and the mind fastens on the past, as something that it knows, only because it must have something to hold to, something to explain its uneasiness. Actually, at this time, it is the unrest of ignorance, the desire to know the causes and reasons for everything, especially ourselves. The adolescent girl, seeing, for the first time, most of the life about her, is puzzled, and longs to understand. She is restless because she cannot do so. Powers and faculties that only existed potentially before, now come into being. New relations are established, and for the first time, the ego recognizes itself, and takes the center of the stage. Heredity has done its part toward molding the young life, and slips quietly into the background. Childhood environment has started the girl’s development, especially those intricate and usually hidden bonds that exist between the daughter and the parents. A physical change commences its course, a change that will slowly guide the girl from childhood to womanhood. Physically, mentally, morally, the woman is gradually being born. From the soft clay of girlhood is springing what the woman will be. The model is being fashioned from within, where the girl’s real nature and hereditary instincts are doing their work, and from without, where environment and outside influence are doing their best to guide the new person. Tradition has said that love is blind. More truly might it be said that youth is blind. Youth starts toward life with eyes raised toward idealism whose glow blinds eyes already sightless through ignorance. The problem is, will those eyes, when they finally open upon such reality as the world knows, fall dejectedly upon gray ashy ruins, blackened by the now cold fires of that idealism, or will they gaze joyfully on a not too perfect world, but one still bright with hope and beauty? The burden of the choice lies, during these years, with the people around the girl. Tactful, sympathetic advice, and guidance by those whose lives touch hers will do much toward making a rounded woman of her, and will help to open her eyes on a world she will want to live in. Ignorance and false teachings on the subjects that vitally concern her may leave her a warped and twisted being, dragging weary feet down tedious years.