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WHAT A GIRL CAN
MAKE AND DO
[Illustration]
New Ideas
for
Work
and
Play
WHAT
A GIRL CAN MAKE AND DO
BY
Lina Beard
and
Adelia B. Beard
_==New York==_
Charles Scribner’s
Sons
1902
COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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Published, October, 1902
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
PREFACE
This new century, bringing with it the strong, healthy, independent,
athletic American girl, makes a demand for new opportunities for the
exercise of both mind and body. Resourcefulness and a wish to do things
for one’s self are American traits strongly developed in the girls as
well as in the boys; and, keeping step with their brothers, our girls
are walking steadily onward, with new hopes and new ambitions in work
and play, and are reaping new rewards.
This book is the result of the authors’ earnest desire to be of some
assistance to their young friends by encouraging them in their wish to
do things for themselves, and by pointing out some directions in which
they may gratify this ambition. Within its covers are suggestions for a
wide variety of things, useful, instructive, and entertaining, which a
girl may make and do, with wholesome and genuine pleasure. The ideas
that are worked out are essentially those of the authors, and are not,
as is often the case, derived from other books. The drawings, too, are
all original, as in “The American Girl’s Handy Book,” to which this is a
companion volume.
In conclusion the authors wish to express their sincere thanks to the
_Delineator_ and the _Woman’s Home Companion_, whose prompt and generous
courtesy, in returning such original drawings and material as were used
in their respective magazines, has greatly facilitated the preparation
of this work and added to its interest.
FLUSHING, June 16, 1902.
CONTENTS
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WHAT A GIRL CAN MAKE
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CHAPTER I. PAGE
WHAT A GIRL CAN MAKE WITH HAMMER AND SAW 3
The Workshop, 4; Tools, 5; The Carpenter’s Bench, 9; A
Dressing-table, 11; A Wash-stand, 14; A Portable Corner
Clothes-press, 15; A Five O’clock Tea Table, 16; A Piazza
Flower-stand, 17; A Hooded Chair Made of a Packing-box,
21.