Embroidered Book Covers for Home Embroidery
Small address books bridge score books magazine covers and similar items shown in the illustrations offer charming Christmas gifts or card prizes. The designs are worked on brownish linen with silk and cotton colors and gold thread for elaborate pieces.
Monogram Book Covers Use Corded Silk and Beads
A description of monogram book covers featuring corded silk tiny beads and spangies. It notes using a fine cord for outlining the design especially on larger books and placing initials in the upper left or center with padding stitches. The lettering can be made more prominent by embroidery technique.
Conventional book cover design and practical gift ideas
The article describes book cover designs using dark tones and embroidery on brown or dark ecru linen, with flower motifs in old rose and greens, plus stitching options. It then offers gift ideas including tobacco pouches in suede, knitted ties, and crocheted opera bags made from silk and brass rings, with tips on color and finishing.
Gems In Verse Victor A Quiet Elegy From Ironquill Poem Fragments
A collection of brief poems and verse fragments including Ironquill, Blow You a Kiss, The Old Clock on the Stair, A Day's Wage, and brief lines from William Stanley Braithwaite and Margaret E. Sangster. Themes of heroism, time, love, and mortality thread through the verses with nostalgic tones. The selection centers on solitary valor, memory, and the passage of time across generations.
Not Gold but Only Man Builds a Nation
A poetic meditation on national strength noting that riches and swords fail while enduring character does. It cites ideals of truth and honor and endurance as the true pillars. The piece includes reflections from Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Edith M. Thomas on memory and youth.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Anecdotes from a Store, Court, and Schoolroom
A young applicant meets Mr. Field at Marshall Field's and earns a position if his subsequents are right. A newsboy sues another for control of street corners and objects without counsel. A geography lesson prompts a boy to say he is “killing Chinamen” to reduce foreigners, shocking the class.
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Marshall Field
Field
Mr. Field
Jones
Kansas City
China
Tommy
London
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