How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 109
d walls offer plain, even, flat tinted surfaces for anykind of ornamentation, and the absence of plaster makes it pos-sible to drive nails wherever it is desirable to have them. During a summer spent in one of these cottages on the coastof Maine, its many possibilities in the way of decoration… … Diagram of Ring. close at hand, being obtainable from the fishermen and from thesea itself. The windows first claim our attention in any house and ourlittle cottage is no exception to the rule. With, or without, the regulation shades, windows shouldalways be draped ; the formality oftheir straight…
