Home Arts for Old and Young
BY MRS. CAROLINE L. SMITH. ( AUNT CARRIE. )
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM. 1873.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, By LEE AND SHEPARD, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
HOME ARTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG.
HOME ARTS.
We beseech all our youthful readers not to pass by our Christmas chapter.
We wish we possessed an abler pen, that would induce every family in the land, rich or poor, to celebrate the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave his life for us. Even if some learned men think the twenty-fifth of December is not the day Christ was born, what does it concern us? We know Christ brought love and charity into the world, therefore in gratitude we should celebrate his birth; the exact period is of but little consequence.
Seldon informs us that the Christian church, desirous of abolishing the Saturnalia of the Romans, a festival instituted in honor of Saturn, appointed a festival in honor of her Divine Master, Jesus Christ, to supersede it. But the observance of the day did not become general until about the year 500. The reason why the evening before Christmas day is celebrated, is, that in the primitive church the day was always observed as the Sabbath, and like it, preceded by an eve, or vigil. It was once believed that if we were to go into a cow-house at twelve o’clock, on the night before Christmas, all the cattle would be found kneeling. Many firmly believe the bees sing in their hives Christmas Eve, to welcome the approaching day.
We deck our houses and churches with evergreen, because at this sacred time the earth, then wrapped in darkness, was, as it were, clothed in living green by the birth of Jesus Christ, our Saviour; fit emblems are they, of the never-dying spirit of our Lord and Master.
Caroline L. Smith
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1.—HOW TO MAKE A CHRISTMAS TREE.
2.—THE CHRISTMAS BRAN PIE.
3.—TWELFTH NIGHT.
4.—THE CHRISTMAS BAG.
1.—SHAKESPEARE READING CLUBS.
2.—PRIVATE THEATRICALS.
3.—CHARADES.
4.—CON-JU-GATE.
5.—DUMB-FOUND.
6.—SO-RO-SIS.
7.—LAMENTABLE.
8.—PROVERBS.
9.—TABLEAUX VIVANTS.
10.—TABLEAUX OF STATUARY.
11.—LIGHTS AND SHADES.
1.—WHAT IS VENTRILOQUISM.
2.—THE THEORY OF VENTRILOQUISM.
3.—PRACTICAL RULES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
4.—POLYPHONIC IMITATIONS.
5.—TO IMITATE AN ECHO.
6.—CONCLUDING REMARKS.
1.—THE MAGIC OF ACOUSTICS.
2.—TO SHOW HOW SOUND TRAVELS THROUGH A SOLID.
3.—THEORY OF THE VOICE.
4.—A SINGULAR EXAMPLE OF SUPERSTITION.
1.—HOW TO PLANT SEEDS.
2.—THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS, THE ROSE.
3.—FLOWER BEDS.
4.—CARNATIONS.
5.—FUCHSIAS.
6.—PANSIES.
7.—HOW TO PLANT HARDY BULBS.
8.—JAPAN LILIES.
9.—CAPE BULBS.
10.—HOW TO GROW BULBS IN WINTER.
11.—GARDEN INSECTS.
12.—SOME USEFUL HINTS.
13.—MOSS BASKETS.
14.—HANGING BASKETS.
15.—ARTIFICIAL ROCKERIES.
16.—FERNERIES.
17.—IVIES.
18.—PRESSED FLOWERS.
19.—STRAWBERRIES.
20.—GRAPES.
21.—HOW TO ARRANGE SEA-MOSSES.
1.—KNITTING.
2.—HOW TO KNIT A STOCKING.
3.—BABY’S KNITTED JACKET.
4.—BABY’S BLANKET.
5.—BORDER TO BLANKET.
6.—KNITTED BED-QUILTS.
7.—BABY’S BLANKET.
8.—SOFA CUSHION.
9.—TABLE MATS.
10.—CARRIAGE OR BED-ROOM MAT.
11.—KNITTED MOSS.
12.—PLAIN NEEDLE-WORK, AND USEFUL HINTS FOR YOUNG LADIES.
13.—EMBROIDERY IN SPANGLES AND CANNETILLE.
14.—EMBROIDERY IN LAMÉ OF VELVET AND GOLD.
15.—EMBROIDERY IN FEATHERS.
16.—CORK WORK.
17.—BLACK LANDSCAPE.
18.—VEGETABLE FLOWERS.
19.—ORNAMENTAL SEED WORK.
20.—HOW TO IMPRESS LEAVES ON VELVET.
21.—PAPER PILLOW.
22.—IMITATION CARVED IVORY.
23.—DIAPHANIE, OR STAINED GLASS.
24.—PAINTING ON GLASS.
25.—PAINTING ON VELVET.
27.—ENGRAVED BOXES.
1.—THE LEGITIMIST.
2.—THE SULTAN.
3.—FRENCH SOLITAIRE.
4.—THE ARMY SOLITAIRE.
1.—THE BATH.
2.—COMPLEXION.
3.—RECIPE TO CURE FRECKLES.
4.—A CURE FOR FRECKLES.
5.—A CURE FOR FRECKLES.
6.—A CURE FOR PIMPLES.
7.—HAIR.
8.—CARROT POMADE.
9.—BANDOLINE.
10.—COLD CREAM.
11.—RECIPE FOR CAMPHOR ICE.
12.—CUCUMBER SALVE.
13.—TO LOOSEN STOPPERS OF TOILET BOTTLES.
14.—TO REMOVE A TIGHT RING.
15.—HAIR WASH.
16.—A CURE FOR POISON.
1.—COOKING FOR THE SICK.
2.—PORT WINE JELLY.
3.—TOAST WATER.
4.—TO PREPARE RENNET WHEY.
5.—FLAX-SEED SIRUP.
6.—MUCILAGE OF SAGO.
7.—APPLICATIONS FOR THE SICK.—REFRESHING LOTION.
8.—RECEIPT FOR CROUP.
9.—REMEDY FOR SORE THROAT.
10.—BURNS.
1.—WAFFLES.
2.—A CREAM TOMATO SOUP.
3.—BREAKFAST CAKE.
4.—MOLASSES GINGERBREAD.
5.—PLAIN COOKIES.
6.—MOONSHINE CRACKERS.
7.—NEW YEAR’S COOKIES.
8.—SPONGE CAKE.
9.—LOAF CAKE.
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