The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-08
NEW POSTAL CARD CRAZE.
You Must Use it Continuously When
Travelling Abroad.

| Travelling Abroad.
The postal-card craze is at it's height
| abroad, and those who travel this sum
mer will soon catch the infection of dis
patching postal cards from every station.
These postal cards are by no means the
| useful tan-colored cards with which we
| are familiar. They are the Illuminated
postals that were introduced only few
seasons ago. Even last summer they
were novelty, and one sent from Hol-
| land during the coronation of Wilhel-
| nina was viewed as a great curiosity.
Now every village in Europe has its
postal card and many have several diff
them, and is we'll repaid by the extra
number it sells: Many of them are
made in Germany" and are of exquisite
| coloring.
Wilhelmina's coronation cards showed
| the young Queen from her babyhood.
There were complete sets of them, seven
il, a set, displaying the Queen from ba-
| byhood to the throne. The cathedral at
Amsterdam has card to itself, and 9TH
| landese children.
In Rome you get the most classic postal
| card. The well-known outlines of the
Coliseum, those three pillars of the Tenn
pie of Castor and Polux, st. Peters
| and the vatican, make you feel that a
scholastic and studious holiday has been
spent when you paste the post card tro-
ply iii your collecting book, or address
! such illustrations to those at home, and
you forget that you had not time enough
| to study these monuments, that you had
but ten days to spend where ten years
were needed, and that the intimacy with
| the place which the modern post card
! seems to presuppose is but affectatiOn.
There are handsome pictures of Pope
Leo in the Rome collection, and scenes
| around the royal palace Of the Queen
| and King.
The German Emperor, who does things
| differently from other people, and has
fads harder than most mortals, has set
| the most remarkable pace of postal send
| ing yet known. On the occasion of his
recent journey to Holy Land and through
Europe he prepared several thousand pos
tai cards announcing his safe departure.
These were dispatched from Vienna the
day of the Kaiser's start, and were re-
| ceived in u rev days by friends and 1lU-
| bles.
But still more illustrious example of
postal sending occurred on his majesty S
home trip. Packed safe in the EN-
peror's baggage were thousands Of pos
| tai announcements of his safe arrival
home. These were all written before the
start, and were posted when the Kaiser
was only half way home. Germany de-
votes it's postal cards to its scenery prin-
cipally. After the portraits of the royal
family and the palace at Potsdam come
views of the Rhine, darling little schemes
in color of castles perched high on rocks,
with vines and twisted trees, standing
out against blue sky. Small wonder
that you jump from the train to secure
one of these, even though there is only
room for your signature below the pic
| ture.
In Switzerland, also, mountains, tor
rents, waterfalls and ravines, colorel or
simply in black and white, are the usual
subjects. Sometimes an Alpine rose and
the inevitable edelweiss hedeck one cor
ner, or a couple Of peasants show the
picturesque and graceful national cos
tune, for which the tourist seeks in vain.
| English ornamental postal cards are
made generally out of England, or at
least the color schemes are painted else
where, but the United States cards are
made in America Washington Times.