Excerpt from Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls This book, like a girl's life, is divided into two parts occupation and amusement, or handicraft and recreation. It is not equally divided, for handicraft is so much more like play than work, and is so entertaining in itself, we find difficulty in drawing a distinct line between that and recrea tion. The one insists upon blending with the other and the book, after all, is a book of entertainment. With the old handicrafts coming back into favor and new ones constantly being brought forward, a girl's life may be full of delightful employment. To work with joy ous enthusiasm and self-reliant energy, as well as to play with light-hearted enjoyment, cannot fail to make her sensi ble, wholesome, and happy, and it is with this end in View that we have written and illustrated the book. Our wish is to help our girl friends to make the most of their girl hood and to enjoy it to its fullest extent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.