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" A little girl had better fashion her cups and saucers of acorns, than td have a set of earthen ones supplied. A boy takes ten times more pleasure in a little wooden cart... "
The Mother's Book - Page 53
by Lydia Maria Child - 1831 - 168 pages
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On the Management and Education of Children

Lydia Maria Child - Education - 1835 - 196 pages
...a statue, or a picture; and the reason is, that fine sculpture and paintings are in their churches, and about their streets. Playthings that children...deal better than those which are bought for them. The children understand more about them, and employ them a much longer time; they exercise ingenuity,...
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Reading Book for the Use of Female Schools

Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...showed her a likeness he had sketched of his baby-sister; and adds, " That kiii made me a painter !" Playthings that children make for themselves are a...deal better than those which are bought for them, and really please more. A little girl had better fashion her cups and saucers of acorns, than have...
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Household Economy: A Manual Intended for Female Training Colleges and the ...

Margaret Maria Gordon - Home economics - 1858 - 170 pages
...and a very large one of a mouse, it will make him think that a mouse is as large as an elephant. " Playthings that children make for themselves are a...deal better than those which are bought for them, and really please more. A little girl had better fashion her cups and saucers of acorns, than have...
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Reading Book

1864 - 422 pages
...elephant, and a very large one of a mouse, it will make him think that a mouse is as large as an elephant. Playthings that children make for • themselves are...deal better than those which are bought for them, and really please more. A little girl had better fashion her cups and saucers of acorns, than have...
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The lady's every-day book, by the author of 'Enquire within', assisted by ...

Robert Kemp Philp - 1874 - 392 pages
...added. The basket should be lined with coloured silk, or gold paper. • - Children's Playthings. — Playthings that children make for themselves are a great deal better than those which are i bought for them. They employ them a much longer time, they exercise ingenuity, and they really please...
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The lady's every-day book, by the author of 'Enquire within', assisted by ...

Robert Kemp Philp - 1875 - 400 pages
...be added. The basket should be lined with coloured silk, or gold paper. Children's Playthings. — Playthings that children make for themselves are a...They employ them a much longer time, they exercise in. geuuity, and they really please them more. A little girl had better fashion her cups and saucers...
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The Home Circle and Sunday School Companion, Volume 1

Christianity - 1879 - 334 pages
...heaven, and then to earth." — Krummacher. '•.I tij HEARTH AND HOME. CHILDREN'S PLAYTHINGS. — Playthings that children make for themselves are a...ingenuity, and they really please them more. A little girl likes better to fashion her doll's cups and saucers of acorns, than to have a set of earthern ones...
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The Juvenile Magazine

Christian literature for children - 1875 - 684 pages
...intelligent writer, alluding to this unwise and extravagant expenditure, says : 'Playthings that the children make for themselves are a great deal better...much longer time, they exercise ingenuity, and they please them more. A little girl had better fashion her cups and saucers of acorns than to have a set...
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