Beard, Linda, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 20
ously generationsago. But it has now oc-curred to us that we toomay set the wheel a-hum-ming, taking up with en-thusiastic eagerness the work laid down by our great-grandmothers so many years ago. The song of even theathletic girl will soon be like Marthas when she sings inthe market-place: I can… … Handicraft for Girls times of our hand-spun and hand-woven fabrics. To beable to spin and weave is to be accomplished in the newestas well as the oldest of household arts. Is the old spinning-wheel in the attic, neglected and cov-ered with dust, or in the parlor, decked in all its bravery ofblue…
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