How to Keep Well — Purifying the Yards — Fatness and Leanness — To Prevent Sea-sickness — The Medicine Chest — Simple Reme- dies in Sickness — Hop and Hemlock Pillows for Sleeplessness — How to Care for the Sick — State of the Pulse and Lungs — Valu- able Advice to Mothers — Burns, Bruises and Sprains — Ear-ache and Nose Bleeding — Bow-legs and Knock-knees — Nervous Dis- eases— Sick Headache — Congestive Chills — Dyspepsia and its Cure — Treatment of the Eye — A Visit with the Doctor, who gives Prescriptions and Remedies for all common complaints and diseases, including Asthma, Bee Stings, Colic, Croup, Choking, Canker-sore Mouth, Cuts and Wounds, Colds and Hoarseness, Cold Sores, Ear-ache, Diphtheria, Felons, Frosted and Perspiring Feet, Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, Ingrowing Toe Nails, Hydro- phobia, Lockjaw, Neuralgia, Proud Flesh, Runrounds, Sunstroke, Salt-rheum, Swelled Neck, Snake-bites, Tooth-ache, Warts, etc., ANTIDOTES FOR POISONING. . . . FOOD FOR THE SICK : Broths — Drinks — Gruels — Jellies — Teas — Syrups and Cordials, 247-276 276-277 277-283 CONTENTS. ix MUSICAL CHIMES: page Instrumental Music — Practicing: Exercises— The Care of Instruments —Remarks about Vocalism— Breathing Exercises— Strengthening the Voice — The Children's Concert . . 283-290 OSTRICH FEATHERS : Curling, Cleaning and Dyeing, . . . 290-291 OYSTER CANS : How they may be Made Useful, . . . 292 PAINTING : Hints to Amateur Artists — Fancy Woods Used — Subjects, Designs and Colors — China and Porcelain Painting — Chromo Photography — Fan Painting; Colors, Designs and Materials Used — To Take Impressions of Leaves — Japanese Lacquer Work — Panels for Doors and Screens — Pastel and Colored Crayons — Potichimania — Marine Views for Shells — Screen Designs — Studio Hints — Transfer Work, ' . 292-309 PAPER LANDSCAPES, . . . . . .' . . . 309 PERFUMERY: To Make from Fresh Flowers, 310 .PICTURES : Mounting and' Hanging — Embroidered Picture Frames — Passepar- tout Frames — Oil Paintings and Engravings— Velvet Pictures — Varnishing Chromos and Lithographs, . . . . . 316-313 PLASTER CASTS : Beautifying and Cleaning, 3T3~3i4 PRESSED AUTUMN LEAVES : Gathering and Arranging Them, . 3T4-315 PRESSED FLOWERS : Selection — How to Press — Flower Albums and Journals, . . 316-317 PRESERVING FLOWERS AND FRUIT, ... . 317-318 PLANT SPECIMENS : Collecting— Pressing and Labeling, . . 319-320 ROCKERIES AND GROTTOES, 320-321 ROSE JARS AND PILLOWS : For Perfuming Parlor and Sitting Room. 321-322 HOME-MADE RUGS AND CARPETS, . .... 322-324 RUSTIC WORK : Of Lichens, Moss and Twigs — For Home Decoration — Cigar Ash Bowl — Fern and Flower Stands — The Art of Modeling — Rural Picture Scenes — Rustic Cottages and Landscapes, . . . 324-330 SCRAP BOOKS : For Engravings and Paintings — Registers for Keeping Family Records, 330-332 SEA WEED SPECIMENS : Preparing, Pressing and Mounting — For Albums, Lyres and Crosses, 332-334 SHELLS : Coloring and Etching — Shell Flowers, .... 335-337 SHEETING WAX, 337 SKELETONIZED LEAVES : Gathering, Selecting, Bleaching and Arranging, .... 337-339 x CONTENTS. SPATTER WORK: rAGB Materials — How to Proceed — To Make a Cross, Anchor, Screen — Photographic Method, . - . ... 340-341 SUMMER HINTS:

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How to Keep Well — Purifying the Yards — Fatness and Leanness — To Prevent Sea-sickness — The Medicine Chest — Simple Remedies in Sickness — Hop and Hemlock Pillows for Sleeplessness — How to Care for the Sick — State of the Pulse and Lungs — Valuable Advice to Mothers — Burns, Bruises and Sprains — Ear-ache and Nose Bleeding — Bow-legs and Knock-knees — Nervous Diseases— Sick Headache — Congestive Chills — Dyspepsia and its Cure — Treatment of the Eye — A Visit with the Doctor, who gives Prescriptions and Remedies for all common complaints and diseases, including Asthma, Bee Stings, Colic, Croup, Choking, Canker-sore Mouth, Cuts and Wounds, Colds and Hoarseness, Cold Sores, Ear-ache, Diphtheria, Felons, Frosted and Perspiring Feet, Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, Ingrowing Toe Nails, Hydrophobia, Lockjaw, Neuralgia, Proud Flesh, Runrounds, Sunstroke, Salt-rheum, Swelled Neck, Snake-bites, Tooth-ache, Warts, etc., ANTIDOTES FOR POISONING. . . . Broths — Drinks — Gruels — Jellies — Teas — Syrups and Cordials, 247-276 276-277 277-283 CONTENTS. ix MUSICAL CHIMES: page Instrumental Music — Practicing: Exercises— The Care of Instruments —Remarks about Vocalism— Breathing Exercises— Strengthening the Voice — The Children's Concert . . 283-290 OSTRICH FEATHERS : Curling, Cleaning and Dyeing, . . . 290-291 OYSTER CANS : How they may be Made Useful, . . . 292 Hints to Amateur Artists — Fancy Woods Used — Subjects, Designs and Colors — China and Porcelain Painting — Chromo Photography — Fan Painting; Colors, Designs and Materials Used — To Take Impressions of Leaves — Japanese Lacquer Work — Panels for Doors and Screens — Pastel and Colored Crayons — Potichimania — Marine Views for Shells — Screen Designs — Studio Hints — Transfer Work, ' . 292-309 PAPER LANDSCAPES, . . . . . .' . . . 309 PERFUMERY: To Make from Fresh Flowers, 310 Mounting and' Hanging — Embroidered Picture Frames — Passepartout Frames — Oil Paintings and Engravings— Velvet Pictures — Varnishing Chromos and Lithographs, . . . . . 316-313 PLASTER CASTS : Beautifying and Cleaning, 313-314 PRESSED AUTUMN LEAVES : Gathering and Arranging Them, . 314-315 PRESSED FLOWERS : Selection — How to Press — Flower Albums and Journals, . . 316-317 PRESERVING FLOWERS AND FRUIT, ... . 317-318 PLANT SPECIMENS : Collecting— Pressing and Labeling, . . 319-320 ROCKERIES AND GROTTOES, 320-321 ROSE JARS AND PILLOWS : For Perfuming Parlor and Sitting Room. 321-322 HOME-MADE RUGS AND CARPETS, . .... 322-324 Of Lichens, Moss and Twigs — For Home Decoration — Cigar Ash Bowl — Fern and Flower Stands — The Art of Modeling — Rural Picture Scenes — Rustic Cottages and Landscapes, . . . 324-330 SCRAP BOOKS : For Engravings and Paintings — Registers for Keeping Family Records, 330-332 SEA WEED SPECIMENS : Preparing, Pressing and Mounting — For Albums, Lyres and Crosses, 332-334 SHELLS : Coloring and Etching — Shell Flowers, .... 335-337 SHEETING WAX, 337 SKELETONIZED LEAVES : Gathering, Selecting, Bleaching and Arranging, .... 337-339 x CONTENTS. SPATTER WORK: rAGB Materials — How to Proceed — To Make a Cross, Anchor, Screen — Photographic Method, . - . ... 340-341 SUMMER HINTS:

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