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The American Girls Handy Book

By: Lina Beard,Adelia Belle Beard

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The American Girls Handy Book

By: Lina Beard,Adelia Belle Beard

Explore, hike, discover, be crafty and have fun with friends or alone, indoors or outside! Written for children in 1893, and valuable for both kids and adults today, here's a magical cornucopia of projects, devices, toys, gifts, dolls, recipes, decorations, perfumes, wax and clay modeling, oil and water-color painting and games, all with clear and practical directions for how to make and play them. Vintage Americana by the Beard sisters, two of the founders of the girls scouting movement (when they weren't campaigning for women's rights). As Anne M. Boylan writes in her foreword, "Healthy and spirited, the American Girl thinks nothing of taking a ten-mile 'romp' through woods and fields with a group of friends, and collects flowers and leaves for preservation or presentation to friends and relations. Above all, however, the Beards' girl is handy. She can make a hat rack, a screen, or a bookshelf; fashion a macrame hammock or a cornhusk doll; and draw, paint, sculpt, or decorate a room...By emphasizing what girls can do, The American Girl's Handy Book presents a portrait of girlhood that is vigorous, active, and full of possibilities.

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500

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David R. Godine Publisher

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ISBN 10

0879236663

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9780879236663

The American Girl's Handy Book

Turn-of-the-Century Classic of Crafts and Activities

By: Lina Beard,Adelia B. Beard

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Turn-of-the-Century Classic of Crafts and Activities

By: Lina Beard,Adelia B. Beard

For good old-fashioned fun, nothing beats this 1887 gem and its illustrated explanations of hobbies and games. Handmade dolls, bookshelf building, and other projects use common household items, encouraging imaginations and creativity.

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498

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Courier Corporation

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ISBN 10

0486120856

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9780486120850

Adelia Brainerd

The Outdoor Woman of Harper's Bazar

By: Lost Century of Sports Collection,Adelia Brainerd

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The Outdoor Woman of Harper's Bazar

By: Lost Century of Sports Collection,Adelia Brainerd

Adelia Kate Brainerd began writing “The Outdoor Woman” column in Harper’s Bazar magazine in 1894 when she was 21 years old and continued until her marriage in 1899. Her column marked a departure from the publication's usual focus on fashion and homemaking, introducing essays on sports and athletics to a female audience. The 123 articles (140,000 words) in this volume of the Sports She Wrote series span a wide range of sports and outdoor activities. Adelia's detailed descriptions of bicycling topics exploring the methods, machinery, attire, and touring possibilities awheel, encouraged many women to mount and master the two-wheeler when it was first introduced. Her coverage of prominent golf tournaments and players contributed to the burgeoning interest in women's golf during the late 19th century. Adelia's writings encompassed an extensive list of sports, including archery, badminton, basketball, bowling, canoeing, cricket, equestrianism, ice hockey, ice skating, roller skating, swimming, tennis, rowing, fencing, physical fitness, and more. Her articles also featured the evolution of women's sports fashion and highlighted obscure activities like hand polo and Lang ball. Through her pioneering contributions, Adelia Brainerd paved the way for women's involvement in sports journalism and expanded the coverage of women’s athletic pursuits in popular newspapers and magazines. Sports She Wrote is a 31-volume time-capsule of primary documents written by more than 500 women in the 19th century.

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418

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The Lost Century of Sports Collection

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ISBN 10

1964197317

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9781964197319

Indelible

By: Adelia Saunders

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By: Adelia Saunders

An Indie Next Pick A masterful, "seductive" debut novel about fate, family secrets, and the stories our bodies tell (NYTBR). Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank. When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek, and she is drawn into a family drama that began more than half a century before, when Neil's father, Richard, was abandoned at birth by his mother, a famous expatriate novelist. As secrets are revealed among forgotten texts in the archives of Paris, on a dusty cattle ranch in the American West, along ancient pilgrim paths, and in a run-down apartment in post-Soviet Lithuania, the novel's unforgettable characters converge--by chance, or perhaps by fate--and Magdalena's uncanny ability may be the key to their happiness.

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291

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

1632863960

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9781632863966

The American Girl's Handy Book

Making the Most of Outdoor Fun

By: Lina Beard,Adelia B. Beard

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Making the Most of Outdoor Fun

By: Lina Beard,Adelia B. Beard

Each summer, millions of children complain, "There's nothing to do." Originally published in 1889, The American Girl's Handy Book resoundingly challenges this age-old dilemma by providing a huge number of ideas for fun and instructional projects for young girls. It includes plans for April Fool's parties and jokes, transplanting wildflowers and preserving or pressing them, Easter games and activities, instructions for making a lawn tennis net and the rules of the game, how to make a hammock, corn husk and flower dolls, instructions for making various fans, Halloween parties, making a telephone, painting in water or oil colors, making models in clay and wax, making picture frames, and suggestions for winter games and activities! As with its companion, The American Boy's Handy Book, the girl's book is divided into seasons ensuring fun will be had all year round.

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487

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1493039210

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9781493039210

The American Girl's Handy Book: How to Amuse Youself and Others

By: Adelia Belle Beard,Lina Beard

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By: Adelia Belle Beard,Lina Beard

HIS is the children’s own day, and no assumption of dignity on the part of their elders can deter them from exercising the privileges granted to them by acknowledged custom and precedent. “April fool! April fool!” cries my little nephew, as he dances with delight to see his aunt walk out of the room with a piece of white paper dangling from a hooked pin, attached to her dress. “April fool! April fool!” shout the children in the street, thus announcing the success of some practical joke. “April fool!” laughs everyone at the table, when some unfortunate bites into a brown, wholesome-looking cruller, only to find it a delusion and a snare, the coat of a cruller, but the inside of cotton. “April fool! April fool!” is what even the little sparrows seem to chirp, as with a “s-w-h-e-r-r” they sweep down from the tree and, frightening away the kitten, take forcible possession of her bone. What does all this mean? Why is the first day of April called “All-Fools-Day,” and when or where did the custom of the day originate? Who can tell? No one seems to know. Even the derivation of the word April does not appear to have been definitely settled, and this saucy month, with her mischievous tricks and pranks, her surprises and mysteries, fools and puzzles our wisest men. Through many centuries the observance of All-Fools-Day has descended to us. In many climes and many countries this day is chosen as the proper time for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. “Festum Fatuorum,” or “Fools’ Holiday,” is what it was called in England at the time of the arrival of the early Christians in that country. Easily caught like the mackerel, which are plentiful on the French coast in April and are said to be deficient in understanding, the April fool in France derives his name from that fish, and is called “Poisson d’Avril” or “April Fish,” and again, “Silly Mackerel.” From the cuckoo, a bird that does not know enough to build its own nest, the appellation of “gowk” is taken, and is given to the foolish one in Scotland who allows himself to be duped on this day.

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503

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Library of Alexandria

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1465612823

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9781465612823

American Girls Handy Book

By: Lina Beard,Adelia Beard

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American Girls Handy Book

By: Lina Beard,Adelia Beard

Take a step back in time with this delightful re-issue of the Beard sisters' classic collection of crafts, activities and adventures, "The American Handy Girls Book." Written and released just five years after their brother Daniel's American Boys Handy Book, the girls' companion is intended to "impress upon the minds of girls the fact that they all possess talent and ability to achieve more than they suppose possible." Inside you will find a treasury of detailed instructions for all manner of engaging and productive projects including traditional crafts such as: Watercolor painting Needlework Bookmaking Perfumery Doll decorating Clay modeling Plant identification and flower preservation And much more In addition you'll find instructions for classic parlor games (including some forgotten favorites ), lawn games, plaster casting, and fun domestic projects like holiday-themed table-settings, and homemade candy recipes. Throughout, the Beard sisters maintain an enthusiastic and helpful voice, encouraging girls to explore creative, challenging, and fun activities. As a glimpse into the world of Victorian era American femininity and as a resource for rainy afternoons and long summer days, "The American Girls Handy Book" is a treasure not to be missed

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Allegro Editions

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1626541892

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9781626541894

The American Girls Handy Book

By: Lina Beard,Adelia Beard

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By: Lina Beard,Adelia Beard

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