How to amuse yourself and others

A COMPANION VOLUME TO The American Girl's Handy Book
NEW EDITION. —————— 1 Vol. Cloth. Price, $2.00. —————— With Numerous Illustrations from Drawings by the Author.

How to Amuse Yourself and Others
The American Girls Handy Book.
BY Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard New York Charles Scribner’s Sons 1893

Copyright by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1887

“I do wish some one would write a book like that for girls,” is the remark we have frequently heard when a new book of sports for boys has made its appearance; but it was not until the publication of the “American Boy’s Handy Book” that it occurred to us to write a book for the American boy’s neglected sisters, which should be equally original and practical.
In the “Girl’s Handy Book,” which it has been our endeavor to make peculiarly American, we have sought to introduce original and novel ideas, and by their aid to open new avenues of enterprise and enjoyment.
One of our objects is to impress upon the minds of the girls the fact that they all possess talent and ability to achieve more than they suppose possible, and we would encourage a belief in the truth of the remark said to have been made by a famous Frenchman: “When you Americans undertake anything you never stop to ascertain if it be possible, you simply do it .”