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 121
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. CORATIONS 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 the…
