Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This book, like a girl's life, is divided into two parts occupation and amusement, or handicraft and recreation. It is not equally divided, for handicraft is so much more like play than work, and is so entertaining in itself, we find difficulty in drawing a distinct line between that and recrea tion. The one insists upon blending with the other and the book, after all, is a book of entertainment. With the old handicrafts coming back into favor and new ones constantly being brought forward, a girl's life may be full of delightful employment. To work with joy ous enthusiasm and self-reliant energy, as well as to play with light-hearted enjoyment, cannot fail to make her sensi ble, wholesome, and happy, and it is with this end in View that we have written and illustrated the book. Our wish is to help our girl friends to make the most of their girl hood and to enjoy it to its fullest extent.