Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Sirius Journal of Popular Astronomy There are four small pads

There are four small pads on the bottom

with super high high chair and that great blue pattern on the baby's dress

I think this is just about a perfect object

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

harnessed horses

Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Sirius Journal of Popular Astronomy There are four small padsA 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