If you cut a thick flat slice from a small apple you can make it into a top that will spin by pushing a toothpick through the centre, leaving a long end on one side and a shorter end on the other. The short end is the peg upon which the top spins. Take the long, upper end of the toothpick between your thumb and first finger, give it a hard, quick twist and drop the top on a table having a hard, smooth finish, where it will spin merrily. The little fruit-top will not spin on a carpet or any rough, uneven surface.
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._
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 authors tell everything that girls want to know about sports, games, winter afternoon and evening amusements and work, in a clear, simple, entertaining way.
With some 600 drawings by the Authors that show exactly how they should be done $1.50 net
This book comprises an infinite variety of amusing things that are worth doing; for instance: "A Wonderful Circus at Home," "How to Weave without a Loom," "How to Make Friends with the Stars," "A Living Christmas Tree," etc.
This book furnishes the means of gratifying the impulse toward self-expression that, properly directed, is a great factor in a child's development. It opens a large field of simple handicrafts for little folk by showing how toys can be made from such ordinary things as empty spools, clothes-pins, old envelopes, etc.