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Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls

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By Lina Beard
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A practical manual for young readers combining hands-on handicrafts with suggestions for indoor and outdoor recreations. The first section offers clear, illustrated instructions for traditional and home-made crafts—spinning, simple loom weaving, twine work, clay modeling, pottery, and similar projects—covering tools, materials, and step-by-step techniques for beginners. The second section collects games, outdoor pastimes, and amusement ideas designed to foster play, creativity, and self-reliance. Emphasis throughout is on accessible projects that entertain while teaching useful skills, encouraging thrift, manual dexterity, and imaginative leisure suited to home or school settings.

THE BEARD BOOKS FOR GIRLS
By LINA and ADELIA B. BEARD
Handicraft and Recreation for Girls

With over 700 illustrations by the Authors

8vo. $1.50 net

An elaborate book for girls, by Lina and Adelia Beard whose former books on girls' sports have become classic, which contains a mass of practical instruction on handicrafts and recreations. So many and so various are the things it tells how to do and make that it will give occupation to any sort of girl in all seasons and all weathers.

"The girl who gets this book will not lack for occupation and pleasure."—Chicago Evening Post.
What a Girl Can Make and Do
New Ideas for Work and Play

With more than 300 illustrations by the Authors

Square 8vo. $1.50 net

This book is the result of the authors' earnest desire to encourage in their young friends the wish to do things for themselves. Its aim is to give suggestions that will help them to satisfy this wish. Within its covers are described a great variety of things useful, instructive, and entertaining, suited for both indoors and out.

"It would be a dull girl who could not make herself busy and happy following its precepts."—Chicago Record-Herald.

The American Girl's Handy Book
How To Amuse Yourself and Others

With nearly 500 illustrations

8vo. $1.50 net

In this book Lina and Adelia Beard, the authors, tell everything the girls of to-day want to know about sports, games, and winter afternoon and evening amusements and work, in a clear, simple, entertaining way. Eight new chapters have been added to the original forty-two that made the book famous.

"It is a treasure which, once possessed, no practical girl would willingly part with."—Grace Greenwood.
Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them
With some 600 drawings by the Authors that show exactly how they should be done

8vo. $1.50 net

This book by Lina and Adelia Beard comprises an infinite variety of amusing things that are worth doing. Some of these things are:—"A Wonderful Circus at Home," "The Wild West on a Table," "How to Weave Without a Loom," "How to Make Friends with the Stars," "A Living Christmas Tree," etc.

"Everything is so plainly set forth and so fully illustrated with drawings that the happy owners of the book should find it easy to follow its suggestions."—New York Tribune.

THE BEARD BOOKS FOR BOYS
By DAN C. BEARD
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties
Illustrated by the Author                 $1.25 net (postage extra)

He gives easily workable directions, accompanied by very full illustration, for over fifty shelters, shacks, and shanties, ranging from the most primitive shelter to a fully equipped log cabin. Boys will find it an invaluable guide in constructing temporary or permanent shelters in their hikes or encampments.

Boat-Building and Boating
A Handy Book for Beginners
Illustrated by the Author                 $1.00 net

The directions for making boats are practical and illustrated by simple diagrams, and the work is full of new and suggestive ideas for all kinds of craft.

The Boy Pioneers
Sons of Daniel Boone
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"A book that is truly fine and will probably have a wider influence on the lives of boys into whose hands it falls than almost any other book that comes their way."—The Interior.
The Field and Forest Handy Book
Or, New Ideas for Out of Doors
Illustrated by the Author                 $1.50 net
"Instructions as to ways to build boats and fire-engines, make aquariums, rafts and sleds, to camp in a back-yard, etc. No better book of the kind exists."—Chicago Record-Herald.

The Jack of All Trades
Or, New Ideas for American Boys
Illustrated by the Author                 $1.50 net
"Every boy who is handy with tools of any sort will enjoy this book."—Youth's Companion.

"Full of new ideas for active boys who like to use tools and see interesting things growing under their hands."—New York Tribune.

"A perfect treasure-house of things that delight the soul of a boy."—The Interior.
The Outdoor Handy Book
For Playground, Field and Forest
Illustrated by the Author                 $1.50 net
"It tells how to play all sorts of games with marbles, how to make and spin more kinds of tops than most boys ever heard of, how to make the latest things in plain and fancy kites, where to dig bait and how to fish, all about boats and sailing, and a host of other things which can be done out of doors. The volume is profusely illustrated and will be an unmixed delight to any boy."—New York Tribune.
The American Boys Handy Book
Or, What To Do and How To Do It
Illustrated by the Author                 $1.50 net
"It tells boys how to make all kinds of things-boats, traps, toys, puzzles, aquariums, fishing tackle; how to tie knots, splice ropes, make bird calls, sleds, blow guns, balloons; how to rear wild birds, to train dogs, and do a thousand and one things that boys take delight in. The book is illustrated in such a way that no mistake can be made; and the boy who gets a copy of this book will consider himself set up in business."—The Indianapolis Journal.
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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. There is no figure 75.

Page xi, "Witche's" changed to "Witch's" (Witch's Hair)

Page xii, CHAPTER XXVI, "Play-House" and "Play-Houses" changed to "Playhouse" and "Playhouses" to match usage in text.

Page 193, "tanger" changed to "tanager" (cardinal, the scarlet tanager)

Page 206, "fellows" changed to "fellow" (little fellow differs)

Page 273, CHAPTER XXIV came after the chapter title, FINGER-PLAYS FOR LITTLE FOLKS, in the original text. These were switched to follow the form of the rest of the book.

Page 308, "Flay" changed to "Fly" ("Fly away, Jill,")

Page 337, "payed" changed to "played" (easily played as the)

Page 353, "Face, Miss Muffet's" was moved from the last place in the "E" section to the first place of the "F" section.

Page 354, the section titles for "I" and "J" were added to the text.

Page 355, since the text capitalizes all uses of Pasch, the index was changed to reflect this (Lifting for Pasch eggs) and also on page 355 (Rules, Pasch game)

Page 355, "Pocketbooks" changed to "Pocket-books" to match usage in text (Pocket-books, store)

Page 357, "play-house" changed to "playhouse" to match usage in text (Wigwam, playhouse)