From Our Abecedarian Blog . . .

Today — May 4, 2026
	No News Is Good News (permalink) Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from No News Is Good News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899). Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Youth's Companion, 1921. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Here's today's witchy owl chair.  From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. Wells, 1929. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Children's Newspaper, 1927. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Psycho-analysing lions."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) Cactus people populate this endpapers map from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Saint Mary's School's 1924 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Letters From a Cat by Helen Hunt Jackson and illustrated by Addie Ledyard, 1879. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Chatterbox, 1915. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Lasell Seminary's 1925 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "Hiding from evil spirits."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1957. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Wheaton College's 1938 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Astounding, 1956. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Wittenberg College's 1949 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .