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The American Girls Handy Book [SCM]

by Lina Beard Author, Adelia Beard Author

A reprint of an end-of-century publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic painting, preservation of wild flowers, and many others.

Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0879236663
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
42
Pages
496
Suggested Grades
4th - 12th
Publisher
David R. Godine
Copyright
1994
Written
1887

Chapters

  • 1 First of April
  • 2 Wild Flowers and Their Preservation
  • 3 The Walking Club
  • 4 Easter
  • 5 How to Make a Lawn-Tennis Net
  • 6 May-Day
  • 7 Midsummer Eve
  • 8 Sea-side Cottage Decoration
  • 9 A Girl's Fourth of July
  • 10 Printing from Nature's Types
  • 11 Picnics, Burgoos, and Corn-roasts
  • 12 Botany as Applied to Art
  • 13 Door-step Party and Quiet Games for Hot Weather
  • 14 How to Make a Hammock
  • 15 Corn-Husk and Flower Dolls
  • 16 How to Make a Fan
  • 17 All-Hallow-Eve
  • 18 Nature's Fall Decorations and How to Use Them
  • 19 Nutting-Parties
  • 20 How to make a Telephone
  • 21 How to Draw
  • 22 How to paint in water-colors
  • 23 How to paint in oil-colors
  • 24 How to model in clay and wax
  • 29 Christmas Festivities and Home-made Christmas Gifts
  • 25 How to make plaster casts
  • 26 China painting
  • 27 A Chapter on Framer
  • 28 Thanksgiving
  • 29 Christmas festivities and home-made Christmas gifts
  • 30 Amusements and Games for the Christmas Holidays
  • 31 New Year's and a Leap Year Party
  • 32 Home Gymnasium
  • 33 A Decorative Language
  • 34 A Few Items on Old-Fashioned Needlework, with Some New and Original Patterns
  • 35 Scrap-book and Home-made Book-covers
  • 36 A Heap of Rubbish and What to Do with It
  • 37 How to Make Attractive Booths at a Fair
  • 38 Window Decoration
  • 39 Furniture, Old and New
  • 40 Something about Mantle-pieces and Fire-places
  • 41 Home-made Candy
  • 42 Saint Valentine's Day

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