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How to amuse yourself and others : the girls handy book / by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8165
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, Lina, author.
- Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Handicraft.
- Games.
- Interior decoration.
- Amusements.
- Genre:
- Activity books.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Girl's handy book
- Place of Publication:
- London : Suttaby and Co., 1887.
- Contents:
- Spring. First of April
- Wild flowers and their preservation
- The walking club
- Easter
- How to make a lawn-tennis net
- May-day
- Summer. Midsummer eve
- Sea-side cottage decoration
- A girl's fourth of July
- Printing from nature's types
- Picnics, burgoos and corn-roasts
- Botany as applied to art
- Door-step party and quiet games for hot weather
- How to make a hammock
- Corn-husk and flower dolls
- How to make a fan
- Autumn. All-hallow-eve
- Nature's Fall decorations and how to use them
- Nutting-parties
- How to make a telephone
- How to draw
- How to paint in water-colors
- How to paint in oil-colors
- How to model in clay and wax
- How to make plaster casts
- China painting
- A chapter on frames
- Thanksgiving
- Winter. Christmas festivities and home-made Christmas gifts
- Amusements and games for the Christmas holidays
- New Year's and a leap year party
- Home gymnaisum
- A decorative language
- A few items on old-fashioned needlework, with some new and original patterns
- Scrap-book and home-made book-covers
- A heap of rubbish and what to do with it
- How to make attractive booths at a fair-a new kind of grab-bag
- Window decoration
- Furniture, old and new
- Something about mantle-pieces and fire-places
- Home-made candy
- Saint Valentine's day.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Illustrations by the authors; variously signed LB or ABB.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8165: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription on front pastedown: Ethel Rose Saunderson from Father Christmas 1888. Bookseller's bookplate on front pastedown (William McGee, Dublin).
- OCLC:
- 266603238
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