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 129
flags, low-priced colored cloth orstrong paper as a covering. Fig. 52. The corners are tieddown to pegs in the ground, and, when two or three candlesare set in the tent, the effect is very pleasing. All young people delight in the noise and excitement of Fireworks, and here are some pyrotechnics… … Fi^.SS Fig. J4 Parachutes. Parachute. Cut a piece of tissue-paper five inches square, twist each cor-ner and tie with a piece of thread eight inches long, Fig. 53 ; wrap a small pebblein a piece of paperand tie the fourpieces of thread se-curely to the peb-ble, Fig. 54. Thismakes a light airylittle…
