Description:When you play, play hard; and when you work, do not play at all.Theodore Roosevelt.this book contain:-The home workshop-Tool and home-made shop equipment-Elementary Manual Training-Wood Finishing-Working-drawings-Easily Made Furniture-Handy Contrivances for the House-A Boy's Room in an Attic-Box AND Barrel Furniture-Home-made Gymnasium Apparatus for a Boy's Room-Cigar-box Toys and Gifts-Clockwork Toys-Brass Craft-A Boy's Wireless Telegraph Outfit -Stunts for a Boys' Vaudeville Show-Moving Pictures-A Snow Battleship-A Coaster and a Bob-sled-Model Aeroplanesand much more!///INTRODUCTORY NOTESThere are all sorts of Handicraft for Handy Boys in this new volume. Some of the ideas will appeal more directly to younger readers, while other ideas will be better suited to the older lads who have become more capable through experience with earlier ventures and advancement in school. At the time of the publication of " The Boy Craftsman," the author advanced the opinion that it is well to provide a boy with a book which contains not only a goodly measure of the simple work requiring little or no experience in the handling of tools, but also the proper instruction to help him grow more proficient, and such advanced work as he will then be prepared to undertake ; and the success of this former volume has proven that such a book gets right next to a boy's heart, that it furnishes him with ideas for many years' work, and that it produces the best possible influence over him in encouraging him to be industrious. Every young fellow loves to plan and dream about what he is ''going to do " some day, and in simply looking over the more advanced ideas in a book of this kind, he experiences, in his imaginative mind, much of the pleasures that his older brother or friend gets out of the actual work; for this reason, no school boy is too young to enjoy such a book, and the act of placing a copyin his hands at an early age will be the means of instiUing in him an ambition to make the best possible use of his time, before he has had a chance to acquire a tendency to be an idler.As in " The Boy Craftsman," the author has planned tJie suggestions on an ecojiomical basis, providing for the use of the materials which a boy ordinarily has at hand, — old boards, grocery boxes, cigar boxes, barrels, tin cans, worn-out pans and tins, pails, broom-handles, spools, discarded clocks, broken chairs and other furniture, old hats and clothing, stovepipe, clothes-line, screen wire, and other things too numerous to mention, — besides many things which can be purchased for a few cents. The greater part of the ideas require very little if any outlay of money, and many suggestions for earning mo7tey have been included to make it possible for a boy to provide himself with all the tools which he requires or wishes to own, without having to call upon the home treasurer for the means for such purchases. These features were brought together for the first time in ''The Boy Craftsman," and have won the confidence of parents who realize that, in giving a book of this kind to their boys, they are providing something which will encourage self-reliance and resourcefulness rather than a dependence upon home for money for tools and working material—which is often the cause of endless worry where such cannot be furnished. The work is along such lines as will interest the boy with unlimited funds at his disposal, as well as the boy in moderate circumstances, and, inasmuch as it has been planned on a small cost basis, it should be the means of doing him more good, and help him to form a firmer foundation for later years, thanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Handicraft for handy boys; : practical plans for work and play with many ideas for earning money. To get started finding Handicraft for handy boys; : practical plans for work and play with many ideas for earning money, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Handicraft for handy boys; : practical plans for work and play with many ideas for earning money
Description: When you play, play hard; and when you work, do not play at all.Theodore Roosevelt.this book contain:-The home workshop-Tool and home-made shop equipment-Elementary Manual Training-Wood Finishing-Working-drawings-Easily Made Furniture-Handy Contrivances for the House-A Boy's Room in an Attic-Box AND Barrel Furniture-Home-made Gymnasium Apparatus for a Boy's Room-Cigar-box Toys and Gifts-Clockwork Toys-Brass Craft-A Boy's Wireless Telegraph Outfit -Stunts for a Boys' Vaudeville Show-Moving Pictures-A Snow Battleship-A Coaster and a Bob-sled-Model Aeroplanesand much more!///INTRODUCTORY NOTESThere are all sorts of Handicraft for Handy Boys in this new volume. Some of the ideas will appeal more directly to younger readers, while other ideas will be better suited to the older lads who have become more capable through experience with earlier ventures and advancement in school. At the time of the publication of " The Boy Craftsman," the author advanced the opinion that it is well to provide a boy with a book which contains not only a goodly measure of the simple work requiring little or no experience in the handling of tools, but also the proper instruction to help him grow more proficient, and such advanced work as he will then be prepared to undertake ; and the success of this former volume has proven that such a book gets right next to a boy's heart, that it furnishes him with ideas for many years' work, and that it produces the best possible influence over him in encouraging him to be industrious. Every young fellow loves to plan and dream about what he is ''going to do " some day, and in simply looking over the more advanced ideas in a book of this kind, he experiences, in his imaginative mind, much of the pleasures that his older brother or friend gets out of the actual work; for this reason, no school boy is too young to enjoy such a book, and the act of placing a copyin his hands at an early age will be the means of instiUing in him an ambition to make the best possible use of his time, before he has had a chance to acquire a tendency to be an idler.As in " The Boy Craftsman," the author has planned tJie suggestions on an ecojiomical basis, providing for the use of the materials which a boy ordinarily has at hand, — old boards, grocery boxes, cigar boxes, barrels, tin cans, worn-out pans and tins, pails, broom-handles, spools, discarded clocks, broken chairs and other furniture, old hats and clothing, stovepipe, clothes-line, screen wire, and other things too numerous to mention, — besides many things which can be purchased for a few cents. The greater part of the ideas require very little if any outlay of money, and many suggestions for earning mo7tey have been included to make it possible for a boy to provide himself with all the tools which he requires or wishes to own, without having to call upon the home treasurer for the means for such purchases. These features were brought together for the first time in ''The Boy Craftsman," and have won the confidence of parents who realize that, in giving a book of this kind to their boys, they are providing something which will encourage self-reliance and resourcefulness rather than a dependence upon home for money for tools and working material—which is often the cause of endless worry where such cannot be furnished. The work is along such lines as will interest the boy with unlimited funds at his disposal, as well as the boy in moderate circumstances, and, inasmuch as it has been planned on a small cost basis, it should be the means of doing him more good, and help him to form a firmer foundation for later years, thanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Handicraft for handy boys; : practical plans for work and play with many ideas for earning money. To get started finding Handicraft for handy boys; : practical plans for work and play with many ideas for earning money, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.