Source: Household Hints and Recipes by Henry T. Willams and “Daisy Eyebright” 1884

Free Victorian bird scrap for your scrapbook.

Every one who takes a newspaper containing various items connected with housekeeping, the toilette, etc., will often regret to have it torn up, on account of some little scrap in it which was of importance to them; but, if a scrapbook was only at hand, the scissors could have quickly transferred the item to its pages.

If you have never been accustomed to preserve short articles, and tiny scraps in this manner, you cannot understand the pleasure you would take in turning over the pages of the book, and reading a bit here and a scrap there. Perhaps a choice bit of poetry will meet your eye, and bring tears to its lids; or a witty anecdote will make the room ring with your laughter. Or, valuable “Hints” or “Recipes” may claim your attention just at the time you needed the knowledge they contain.

Indeed, you can hardly read a single paper at the present time, but you will find something in its columns that is worthy of preservation, and which will be of service to you many times during your life.

Or, you may procure a choice thought, which is far more precious than a jewel set in gold; and, if you will hoard these rare gems, year after year, you will garner up a treasure-book that will not only be of service to yourself, but also to your children and grandchildren, in decades of years yet to come.