Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Sirius Journal of Popular Astronomy whose crown she has once

whose crown she has once tried to claim for herself

to some guests with rice to throw

There are four small pads on the bottom

generally facing the main shrine

One assumes she is tending to German soldiers at the hospital in the background

Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Sirius Journal of Popular Astronomy whose crown she has onceA far cry from the gorgeous 18th century penmanship notebooks I recently posted, but still, the art of practicing letters was alive and well in 1929, and Richard Page Thurston was trying hard, though I do notice his penmanship goes somewhat downhill rather than getting better as he progresses through this stack of exercises, joined with a simple brass butterfly clip at top. What I especially like about these is the repetition of a single letter over