How to amuse yourself and others. The American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 125
again in clear water. Rub each shellwith a soft woollen cloth. A fine enamelled surface can be givenby rubbing them with a little oil and finely powdered pumice-stone, and then with a chamois-skin. To bleach fresh-water shells to a snowy whiteness, washthem perfectly clean and then put them in a… … CHAPTER IX. A GIRLS FOURTH OF JULY. ECORATIONS are seen here,there, and everywhere. Howbeautifully the flags andstreamers look as they wavein the breeze. All the housesand streets are gay with bunt-ing. We listen with a thrillof patriotic excitement to thenational airs played by bandsof music as…
Amusements · Interior decoration
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