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 187
which the children are not slowto perceive. Little Indian girls, to whom store babiesare unknown, make the most complete anddurable corn-husk dolls, and the followingdirections tell just how to construct them : Provide yourself with the husks of sev-eral large ears of corn, and from amongthem… … /}■(;./If Head Commenced