{"product_id":"2940149185061","title":"Toy-Making in School and Home by Polkinghorne and Polkinghorne","description":"Women are often limited in their amusements and in their hobbies for lack of power or of knowledge to use the requisite implements. We may wield the needle, the brush, kitchen utensils, even the spade and the trowel, but what knowledge have we of the chisel, the plane, the saw, or even the friendly gimlet and the screw-driver?\u003cbr\u003eThe scissors answer many purposes until the points are broken, but how helpless we are with a screw or a saw, how futile are our attempts to adjust a loose door-handle, or to set the knives of a mowing machine! It is humiliating to call for help in such simple jobs, and tantalising not to be able to enjoy the carpenter's bench as our men-folk do in their hours of leisure.\u003cbr\u003eA really active hobby, one entailing exercise of many muscles, otherwise resting, does help to keep a well-balanced mind and a healthy body. It saves one from fretfulness, from too great introspection; it keeps one cheerful and changes one's attitude of mind when change is needed.","brand":"aqeel aslam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157927772400,"sku":"2940149185061","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149185061_p0.jpg?v=1763720372","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149185061","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}