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 137
tie them with a slip knot Pin-wheel. Summer. (Fig. 63), in order that it may easily fly open. Place the cagethus formed in the centre of a square piece of tissue-paper. Now cut strips of different colored tissue-paper, four incheslong, and twist each piece at one end. Put these in the centre of the… … makes a bomb somewhat re-sembling a common torpedoenlarged to many times itsoriginal size. Pass the string through ascrew-eye which has been screwed in the end of a flag-pole orbroomstick, and place the pole out of the window. Then dropthe end of the string down to the lawn below. Fasten one endof…
Amusements · Interior decoration
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