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 168
er the heat ofthe day is spent, and the air, although not cool, is a degree ortwo less hot, the population of the town makes itself visible.Ladies and children clad in the thinnest of white and lightcolored muslin gowns, emerge from the houses to sit upon pi-azza and door-step, and there welcome… … ^n 152 Summer, taken possession of, and to enter the house again until ready-to retire for the night, is not to be thought of. Friends andneighbors making social calls are received and entertained in-formally upon the door-steps, and sometimes when the partybecomes too large for the steps to…
