When Mother Lets Us Carpenter

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Excerpt from When Mother Lets Us Carpenter: A Book Telling Boys and Girls How to Make Many Useful and Attractive Articles With Few Tools and at a Small ExpenseTO develop the child's creative faculty, to fur nish a healthful diversion, both mental and physi cal, to encourage the making Of useful things, are the Obj ects of this little book.It is unique in two ways. The customary work ing drawings Of the assembled article, with their numerous and confusing dimension lines, have been omitted. Each piece Of wood, however, is delineated separately on a series Of squares, which not only display the necessary measurements, but show the relation Of the various lines all at a glance. The idea Of proportion is thus accentuated and in a way that would be impossible were the dimensional data displayed numerically instead of graphically.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.