Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences mid-century tool Two more 19th c

Two more 19th c

but now just clangs a bit when one sets it down

(The eyebrows are my favorite

the veil belonged to a woman who took pity on Christ as he toiled with his burden of the cross to Golgotha

it is no longer present

Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences mid-century tool Two more 19th cAs you likely know by now, I've a special weakness for penmanship practice notebooks of all sorts, for all different sorts of reasons, high among them being the specific words and phrases chosen for repetition, which take on added resonance for being written over and over again (and also tell us a lot about the times, including the values being stealthily drilled into children! ) This one, published in 1899, struck me first for the sentence "Burnt