Word: baptisam
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Before the Civil War, water color painting and painting on velvet came next after samplers in the accomplishments of proper little women. No adult productions reflect as limpidly as theirs the ironbound sobriety of that period. Among examples shown last week were an able Baptisam of our Savour by Ann Johnson, age unknown, and five "mourning pictures"- families standing at tombs overhung with weeping willows. Inscriptions: "The Grass Witherith, the Flower Fadeth, and the Hopes of Man is Destroyed"; "Our Dying Friends are Pioneers to Smooth our Rugged Pass to Death...
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