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How? Spare Hours Made Profitable

by Kennedy Holbrook

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2The Windmill Puppet
  3. 3The Flying Whirligig
  4. 4How to Make a Book
  5. 5The Snake
  6. 6The Divided Square Puzzle
  7. 7Experiment With Two Pieces of Glass
  8. 8The Grimacing Face
  9. 9A Good Ball
  10. 10Amusing Experiment With Tooth-Picks
  11. 11How to Cut Tops From Glass Bottles
  12. 12A Boy’s Barometer
  13. 13An Infallible Barometer
  14. 14The Balancing Doll
  15. 15The Boomerang
  16. 16The Magic Telescope
  17. 17To Crystallize Grasses, Seed-Vessels, Etc.
  18. 18Method of Coloring Alum Crystals
  19. 19Animated Fire
  20. 20A Pretty Ornament for a Boy to Make
  21. 21How to Make a Blowpipe
  22. 22How to Blow Glass
  23. 23A Siphon
  24. 24To Melt Stones
  25. 25A Soap Bubble
  26. 26Resin Bubbles
  27. 27The Three Magical Cards
  28. 28An Optical Game
  29. 29To Tell the Number Thought of by a Person
  30. 30The Counter Puzzle
  31. 31Another Arithmetical Trick
  32. 32To Tell Two or More Numbers Which a Person Has Thought of
  33. 33An Easy Proof for Sums in Multiplication
  34. 34The Self-Rectifying Dart
  35. 35The Balancing Pin
  36. 36A Box-Sled for Baby
  37. 37A Set of Cars
  38. 38The Toy Locomotive
  39. 39A Freight Train
  40. 40A Lot of Paper Windmills
  41. 41A Winter Garden
  42. 42The Boot Puzzle
  43. 43How to Take Portraits
  44. 44How to Break a String
  45. 45A Corn-Stalk Fiddle
  46. 46The Xylophone
  47. 47The Æolian Harp
  48. 48The Boston Clapper
  49. 49Papier-Maché
  50. 50The Japanese Paper Bird
  51. 51The Tumbling Egg
  52. 52The Three Halos
  53. 53Paper Boats
  54. 54How to Take Impressions of Plants
  55. 55A Nice Frame for the Above
  56. 56Papier-Maché Boats
  57. 57The Toy Steam-Boat
  58. 58The Bottle Imp
  59. 59Telescope Which a Boy Can Make
  60. 60Christmas Presents
  61. 61Paper Boxes
  62. 62A Shaving-Case
  63. 63Leather Work
  64. 64To Tell the Hour of the Day by the Left Hand
  65. 65Stencils
  66. 66Light Produced by Friction Under Water
  67. 67Experiment With Flower-Seeds
  68. 68How to Skeletonize Leaves
  69. 69Camera Obscura
  70. 70Photographic Printing
  71. 71The Toy Panorama
  72. 72A More Elaborate Panorama
  73. 73Repoussé Work for Boys
  74. 74A Frame for a Plaque
  75. 75The Aquarium
  76. 76The Wooden Windmill
  77. 77A Boy’s Solar Microscope
  78. 78Sea-Mosses
  79. 79Antiques and Horribles
  80. 80The Musical Chickens
  81. 81Captain S.’s Peg Puzzle
  82. 82Slate Games for Children
  83. 83Solitaire
  84. 84Battledore and Shuttlecock
  85. 85Ring Toss
  86. 86Checkers
  87. 87The Spirit Jew’s-Harp
  88. 88A New Way to Kindle the Fire
  89. 89A Home-Made Compass
  90. 90How to Make a Circle
  91. 91The Magnetic Circus
  92. 92To Produce Raised Figures on an Egg
  93. 93An Arithmetical Curiosity
  94. 94One Way to Find the Number of Days in the Month
  95. 95Some Electrical Experiments
  96. 96The Electrophorus
  97. 97A Leyden Jar
  98. 98The Pith Dancer
  99. 99The Obedient Bottle
  100. 100The Immovable Card
  101. 101A Triple Bridge
  102. 102An Illustration of “Inertia”
  103. 103Other Christmas Holiday Amusements
  104. 104A Mineral Garden
  105. 105Three Christmas or Birthday Gifts
  106. 106A Simple Fountain
  107. 107The Fan From Nagasaki
  108. 108The Miniature Yacht and How to Rig Her
  109. 109A Schooner Yacht

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