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 430
CHAPTER XXXVII. HOW TO MAKE ATTRACTIVE BOOTHS ATFAIR—A NEW KIND OF GRAB-BAG. … ECIDING to have our fair un-like those which have preced-ed it, we must do away withmonotony and introduce notonly variety, but originality aswell. New ideas, somethingdifferent from that which hasserved us heretofore,is what we strive for.Novelties are alwaysattractive, let thembe decorative…