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Today — May 3, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Magic and Make-believe, edited by John McInnes, 1962. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Practice For Tip, Tip and Mitten, The Big Show by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Daily Mirror, 1914. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1945. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "The sacred eel.  Where the children feed it."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

The Right Word (permalink) Hunting peasants.  From Basic Goals in Spelling 8, Teacher's Edition by Kottmeyer & Ware, 1964. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from The Right Word . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "'Rejected' art but not dejected artists."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "'I'd have taken gold, every time,' cried the goblin."  From St. Nicholas, 1891. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1889. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Rather than be less, cared not to be at all."  From Lasell's 1898 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) "Don't blow your own horn when you can get some one else to blow it for you."  From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Reblog if you subsist on victuals and drink.  From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .