First of April--Wild Flowers and Their Preservation--The Walking Club--Easter-Egg Games--How to Make a Lawn Tennis Net--May-Day Sports--Midsummer-Eve Games and Sports--Sea-side Cottage Decoration--A Girl’s Fourth of July--An Impression Album--Picnics, Burgoos, and Corn-Roasts--Botany as Applied to Art--Quiet Games for Hot Weather--How to Make a Hammock--Corn-Husk and Flower Dolls--How to Make Fans--All Hallow Eve--Nature’s Fall Decorations and How to Use Them--Nutting Parties--How to Draw, Paint in Oil-colors, and Model in Clay and Wax--China Painting--Christmas Festivities, and Home-made Christmas Gifts--Amusements and Games for the Holidays--Golf--Bicycling--Swimming--Physical Culture--Girls’ Clubs--A New Seashore Game--Apple Target Shooting--Water Fairies. LOUISA M. ALCOTT wrote: “I have put it in my list of good and useful books for young people, as I have many requests for advice from my little friends and their anxious mothers. I am most happy to commend your very ingenious and entertaining book.” GRACE GREENWOOD wrote: “It is a treasure which, once possessed, no practical girl would willingly part with. It is an invaluable aid in making a home attractive, comfortable, artistic, and refined. The book preaches the gospel of cheerfulness, industry, economy, and comfort.” =CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers, 153-157 Fifth Ave., New York= * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: The author, Daniel Carter Beard, founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905 (later renamed the Boy Pioneers of America), which was merged into the Boy Scouts of America when that organization was founded in 1910. Another similarly title book by the same author contains a subset of the material in this book: D. C. Beard, _The Jack of All Trades: Fair Weather Ideas_, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1904. Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter and relabeled consecutively through the document. Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned. Punctuation and figure captions have been made consistent. Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typos have been corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jack of All Trades, by D. C. Beard