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 88
earlysettlers, the customs did not thrive here as in the mother coun-try, and many of them have died out altogether. May-day is one of the many holidays still celebrated, thatoriginated among the pagans ages ago, and it is said that thepractice of choosing a May-queen and crowning her with… … 72 spring. Merrie England of fastening bunches of flowering shrubs andbranches of sycamore and hawthorn upon the doors of thoseneighbors whose good Hves and kindly habits were thus recog-nized by their friends. The maids and matrons of England formerly had a way oftheir owm of observing the day. On…
