Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! handmade gift I thought I was going

I thought I was going to die

” This renowned Burmese lacquer-ware is made from a mixture of the juice of the Thitsi tree and ash

I surely would not much have enjoyed living in the 1830s

which has not led me to its maker

Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! handmade gift I thought I was goingSo fun to find this one the other day, gymnastic exercises a la 1863! It's a scarce one, and made all the better by careful crayon coloring in yellow and green on a number of the excellent illustrations. I especially like seeing a section toward the end where movements of the body were linked to spelling out words, and others specifying the tempo of music, or even specific songs, to which exercise sequences of should be set. Just waiting to be