Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences cast metal portrait It measures 4 1/4" x

It measures 4 1/4" x 1 7/8" w x 1 1/4" t

right down the carefully inked Spencerian "Minnie" at bottom center

Plus some other letters it's a bit hard to decipher

The largest is stamped Made in Germany on the interior bottom

Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences cast metal portrait It measures 4 1/4" xAs 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