"Dame Curtsey's" Book of Novel Entertainments for Every Day in the Year |
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Dame Curtsey's Book of Novel Entertainments for Every Day in the Year (1907) Ellye Howell Glover No preview available - 2008 |
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affair amusement apples April Fool asked ball baskets bells blue bonbons bowl bride cake candles candy celery centre centrepiece chafing-dish charm cheese cheese cloth cherries child Christmas Chrysanthemum Tea chrysanthemums clothes-pin coffee colors corn costumes crepe paper croquettes dainty delightful dining-room dinner dishes doilies dolls Easter entertainment favors filled flags flowers friends fruit gift girls give given glass gown grapes green guests Hallowe'en heart holly hostess ice cream invitations Jack-o'-Lanterns Japanese ladies light luncheon menu mistletoe mother night nuts orange ornamented packages party person pink PLACE CARD SUGGESTION plate popcorn potatoes pretty Princess of Thule prize pumpkin refreshments ribbon rose salad sandwiches Santa Claus served sewing shades sherbet silver soup souvenirs sticks supper suspend sweetbreads Thanksgiving thimble tied tiny tissue paper tree W. D. HOWELLS wedding whipped cream written yellow young
Popular passages
Page 239 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 257 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 256 - There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.
Page 250 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 255 - Go with each of us to rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns...
Page 268 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Page 263 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 261 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 247 - We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Page 247 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.