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 117
ome as soon as possible and placedin a tub of fresh water. The tub will give the larger kinds roomto spread out, when a smaller vessel would cramp and rumplethem. On sheets of paper, of the kind used for the screen,carefully lift each sea-weed out of the water, and with a smallcamel-hair brush… … Marine Screen. Sea-side Cottage Decoration. lOI When they have all been satisfactorily spread on the paperand have become partially dry, they must be pressed by layingthe paper which holds the sea-weed on a piece of blotting-paperor folded newspaper, andover it a piece of linen orfine cotton cloth…
