The home library . ook so good as the one which bears the nameof ^Mark Twain. As eyerybody knows, or ought toknow, this is a yolume the pages of which are printed witha gridiron of prepared glue, sothat all that is needed is tomoisten the scrap slightly andpress it down on its place onthe page, and there it will stick(Pig. 18). The use of MarkTwains patent scrap-book, or -pm. is. of the somewhat similar and so-called ^^Art Scrap-books (in which the whole pageis slightly coyered with an adhesiye preparation), or ofthe wafer scrap-books (at the end of which there areperforated squares of paper g
The home library . ook so good as the one which bears the nameof ^Mark Twain. As eyerybody knows, or ought toknow, this is a yolume the pages of which are printed witha gridiron of prepared glue, sothat all that is needed is tomoisten the scrap slightly andpress it down on its place onthe page, and there it will stick(Pig. 18). The use of MarkTwains patent scrap-book, or -pm. is. of the somewhat similar and so-called ^^Art Scrap-books (in which the whole pageis slightly coyered with an adhesiye preparation), or ofthe wafer scrap-books (at the end of which there areperforated squares of paper gummed on both sides, andthese, when detached and moistened, serye as wafers tohold the scrap to the page)—the use of any one of thesescrap-books does away with the mucilage-bottle and thepaste - pot and their accompanying eyils and odors; andthis is a great boon, as any one will acknowledge who hasseen an actiye and intelligent child, in the pursuit of art,upset a large bottle of mucilage three times in otie 82 TEE HOME LIBRARY. on the same Persian rug. The Mark Twain scrap-booksare also to be recommended as having an index. It isadyisable, however, to let the book be its own index asfar as possible. Even in as rudimentary a collection ofscraps as has been indicated above, it is better to attemptsome sort of classification. Let the sentimental stanzascease to elbow on the same page the recipe for takinggrease out of a rag carpet. Give a page to poetry, thenext to cooking recipes, a third to suggestions for familydoctoring, and so on. Then, when a page is filled, turnto the next blank page and begin on that, noting atthe toj) the number of the nearest preceding page de-voted to the same subject, and at the bottom the num-ber of the page next following on the same , if a young lady is interested in poetry and canarybirds and cooking, the first, fourth, fifth, eighth, andtenth pages might be devoted to the Muse, the secondand sixth to canaries, and the third, s
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