Addie E. Heron

From a day when the format of books was decidedly less formal; it contains 458 pages, then an unnumbered table of contents of 5 pages, and a list of illustrations, numbered from i to xv.

"We have always recognized that the first requisite of a true home is order and cleanliness, for without these there can be no beauty, no true refinement, even though mother and daughters be able to paint like a Raphael and embroider like a Queen Matilda; without the first, the last accomplishment is worse than useless as a home decoration."

It was a different world, when this book was written and compiled. Embroidery, painting, lace-making, crocheting and knitting, everything that a well-bred young woman ought to know is in this book.

It should be noted, for the curious, that this book is online in its entirety, at the internet archives.

https://archive.org/details/fancyworkforplea00hero… (más)