Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 1108
hastened by apush given to the ice with the left skate, as he starts with the rightfoot, and vice versd; but, above all things, let him thoroughly under-stand inside edge, and be confident of his own powers before hebegins practising the feats we will now describe. But first the skatermust be… … PLAIN SKATING. Our Leisure Hours. throw all the weight upon the heels of the skates. Those who wearrthe skates with rounded heels cannot, of course, stop in this way, assthe rounded irons, instead of sticking into the ice, would trip theirrwearer up ; he puts the second foot to the ground, at right…
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