Home Amusements

Chapter 28: Transcriber's Note:

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The volume collects practical guidance and suggestions for entertaining at home, describing how to stage private theatricals and tableaux vivants, organize parlor games, fortune-telling, and brain exercises, and arrange rainy-day diversions. It offers instruction in decorative crafts such as embroidery, etching, and ceramics alongside outdoor pursuits like lawn tennis, archery, garden parties, and picnics. Chapters address animal care, caged birds, domestic pets, and amusements suited to middle-aged and elderly people, while also giving advice on staging, props, social arrangements, and adapting activities to different rooms and seasons.

LEADING NUMBERS:

Fine Points,		Nos.	333,	232,	128.
Medium	Points,	„	048,	14,	130.
Blunt	„	„	122,	183,	1743.
Broad	„	„	161,	239,	284.

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Works: Camden, N. J. 26 John Street, New York.

Transcriber's Note:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible. Some minor corrections of spelling have been made.