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 469
ime, andtrouble. The examples we give here of the treatment of common-place mantel-pieces are simple, and can easily be managed bythe girls themselves, with but trifling aid from a carpenter. In a room occupied at one time by a young friend of thewriter, there was an old-fashioned white-pine… … Fig. 375.—Shelves over Mantel-Piece. Mantel-Pieces and Fire-Places. 453 the heat of the fire, and not for beauty. A hint from thewriter was sufficient to set this girls brain and fingers to work.Soon the white-marble border was transformed into a row ofblue and white tiles, which were not only…
