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New ideas for work and play; what a girl can make and do (1902)

Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, joint author · New York, Scribner's · leaf 191

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old manuscript recipe-book, yellow with ageand worn by use, which has descended to the writer from anancestress famous for her good housekeeping and house-wifely arts. The dye appears to have been prepared inlarge quantities, usually enough for sixteen pounds of wool,but you can easily regulate the… … You may Knot the Fringe or Plat it and Knot it. Priscilla Rugs 161 ounces of verdigris, one and one-half ounces of cream-tartar.Run * your cloth in it for four hours, then air. Empty outthat liquor and fill up with clear water; add four and one-half pounds of logwood, boil it for one hour and a…

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