The American Girls
Handy Book.
The American Girls Handy Book
A COMPANION VOLUME
TO
The American Girl's Handy Book
TO
The American Girl's Handy Book
NEW EDITION.
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1 Vol. Cloth. Price, $2.00.
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With Numerous Illustrations from
Drawings by the Author.
How to
Amuse
Yourself
and
Others
Amuse
Yourself
and
Others
BY
and
New York
Charles
Scribner’s
Sons
1893
and
New York
Charles
Scribner’s
Sons
1893
Copyright by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1887
PREFACE.
“I do wish some one would write a book like that forgirls,” is the remark we have frequently heard when a newbook of sports for boys has made its appearance; but it wasnot until the publication of the “American Boy’s HandyBook” that it occurred to us to write a book for the Americanboy’s neglected sisters, which should be equally originaland practical.
In the “Girl’s Handy Book,” which it has been our endeavorto make peculiarly American, we have sought to introduceoriginal and novel ideas, and by their aid to open newavenues of enterprise and enjoyment.
One of our objects is to impress upon the minds of thegirls the fact that they all possess talent and ability to achievemore than they suppose possible, and we would encourage abelief in the truth of the remark said to have been made bya famous Frenchman: “When you Americans undertake anythingyou never stop to ascertain if it be possible, you simplydo it.”
We desire also to help awaken the inventive faculty, usuallyuncultivated in girls, and, by giving detailed methods of newwork and amusements, to put them on the road which theycan travel and explore alone.
We know well the feeling of hopelessness which accompaniesvague directions, and, to make our explanations plain and lucid,we have ourselves, with very few exceptions, made all of thearticles, played the games, and solved the problems described.
The materials employed in the construction of the variousarticles are within easy reach of all, and the outlay, in mostcases, little or nothing.
We scarcely deem it necessary to point out the fact that insupplying healthy, sensible work and amusement for leisurehours, employment is given whose whole tendency is to refinethe tastes and ambitions of our American girls.
A few of our chapters are taken from articles which werew
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