Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's Note: This book is a summary and index to a series of books that can also be found in the Project Gutenberg collection. Details of these books can be found in the notes at the end of this volume.

THE LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY GUIDE AND INDEX

THE LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY

CARPENTRY AND WOODWORK
By Edwin W. Foster

ELECTRICITY AND ITS EVERYDAY USES
By John F. Woodhull, Ph.D.

GARDENING AND FARMING
By Ellen Eddy Shaw

HOME DECORATION
By Charles Franklin Warner, Sc.D.

HOUSEKEEPING
By Elizabeth Hale Gilman

MECHANICS, INDOORS AND OUT
By Fred T. Hodgson.

NEEDLECRAFT
By Effie Archer Archer

OUTDOOR SPORTS, AND GAMES
By Claude H. Miller, Ph.B.

OUTDOOR WORK
By Mary Rogers Miller

WORKING IN METALS
By Charles Conrad Sleffel.

_The Library of Work and Play_

GUIDE AND INDEX

BY CHESHIRE L. BOONE

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1912

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CRAFTS IN THE LIFE OF A PEOPLE 3

II. THE CULTIVATION OF TASTE AND DESIGN 16

III. THE REAL GIRL 28

IV. THAT BOY 47

V. A HOUSE AND LOT--ESPECIALLY THE LOT 67

VI. VACATIONS, ATHLETICS, SCOUTING, CAMPING, PHOTOGRAPHY 78

INDEX 85

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Wireless station and workroom of George Riches _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

An example of furniture such as boys like 4

Clay pots made for germination experiments 5

The work of children between ten and eleven years of age 5

Two examples of furniture grouping for the porch or outdoors 18

The numerous photographs suggest disorder and dust 19

An interesting curtain which might be duplicated by any girl 20

Since flowers are so beautiful in themselves, is it not worth
while to arrange them with judgment? 21

A school garden in Jordan Harbour, Ontario, Can. 28

Domestic science class 29

The work of girls in the public schools 30

A children's garden gives fresh air and sunshine 31

All children love to play at being "grown up" 32

Girls must sometime learn of the conventions and customs of
domestic arrangement 33

A boys' camp with Ernest Thompson Seton 48

The play idea very soon grows toward the representation of
primitive though adult customs and actions 49

A typical boy's workroom and shop 50

The kind of shop which one may have at home 51

The kite fever is an annual disease 52

Pump and waterwheel 53

Boat made by Percy Wilson and Donald Mather 54

These are the forerunners of numerous other electrical
constructions 55

A real derrick in miniature 56

Waterwheels and fan 57

A self-recording telegraph receiver 58

Wireless station and workroom of Donald Huxom 59

An electrical soldering iron and glue-pot 60

Waterwheel connected with model lathe 61

Excellent examples of high school work 62

A manual training shop 63

The machine shop 64

The study of aeroplane construction 65

A successful machine 64

Finished aeroplanes 65

The boy who does not love to camp is unique 68

This and other illustrations of homes, show such places as
people make when they care about appearance 69

Even the most beautiful house must have a background 70

One should build a house as one builds a reputation 71

Trees, shrubbery and lawn form the frame of the picture 72

There was a time not long since, when people built houses
according to style 73

A school garden 74

The Watchung School garden 75

There is a fascination about raising animals whether for sale
or as pets 76

Two more illustrations which will suggest plans for the future 77

Every child, and especially the boy, needs active outdoor
exercise 78

Organized play (woodcraft) under Ernest Thompson Seton 79

More woodcraft. Has the boy had a chance at this kind of
experience? 80

Even the technical process of photography has been
reduced to popular terms 81

In these days photography has become so simplified
that every child can use a camera to advantage 81

THE LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY GUIDE AND INDEX