New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08

IN, ,h,s nicture postal card craze end?
,,xa,v 20 ask this question on an empty
- .vhep TIE first mail of the morning
-. 90 the breakfast table card WHICH, lot
go. ridicules the receivers badness IL
missionary who has heen scalped by
49, s,s then abandoned because TOO lean
- che victims head is the inscription'
"a Little of the Top, r..
= x,,p are likely to ask this question lie"
-. ,..er when on the run for an elevated
vou rerhaps, are especially anxious TO
o. az. osice q little earlier this morning to
onnoiutInent, hut find that your gooo
-s-...,,,z sre tiwarted by a crowd which DOCKS
-. ,.-aoee to the subway AT hrst you 'hihh
-. ,o,,abody has fallen dead and that the
.,,-,ous throng is trying to get peep at the
- BEFORE you realize 1t you are cranlhs
- -sck too and elbowing your way rnstt INTO
sts centre of the crush. And there you discover
-. corpse. but an unusually active pedier eS-
,;.,t,ns a postal card which ne declares - liie
.a.test Partisan novelty Just as you Wonoer
,gbst the card may depict some one SHOUTS,
..rre-e comes Comstock!" and fekir and postal
.arss vanish as if the sidewalk had swallowed
them up.
,,o,r office boy. instead Of having sorted out
,o,,, correspondence has instead. spent the
,,u,s in uasting UP a picture postal card scrap
-, &c &c making a collection OF cards. and
tss bacope so deeply interested in the task that
:. ;s practically gool for nothing else When
M. busv with the eapbook. he is bcthering
,hs stenographer by trying TO tell her how many
cards he has in his book, how many new ones ne
sot last week and how many more he hopes to
get rext week. And now and then You hear him
whisper. when the boss is out, I'll show you
the whole bunch
Before long you may discover that the stenog-
rapher. too has caught the contagion. Every
now and then she becomes SO distracted that
she win send of letters without signature, or
put them in wrong envelopes. At last you learn
that she receives every morning sentimental
postal card bearing a heart Cupid, but not
containing the name of the sender.e They are
being sent her by some wag, who little real
izes how he is tormentiRs her, now he causes
her to lie awake nights, trying to decide who 1t
is that seems so desperately in love with her.
At noon. on your way TO luncheon, you are be-
sieged by the street pedlers. who ask you to buy
postal cards, and even when you eating you
may be interrupted by the waiter. who. as has
become the custom in some of the downtown
restaurants. viii say:
Excuse me. but I've got some new cards from
the other side you ought to see Generally you
buy Your refusal would at once make you per-
soma non grata there. On the way back to the
Office you may drop in at drug store for some
headache powders. and the first clerk you see
proba bly, asks you to look at "our new line OF
cards" even forgetting the powders in his anxi-
ETY. TO sell some cards. Your afternoon mail
brings some more cards. AT supper your wife
perhaps shows you the cards she received IN
the course of the day; and at the club you are
likely TO meet some acquaintance who ask you
10 look at the cards they going to send
somebody else. Even in bed, the postal card
phantom still haunts you. and you dream, per-
chance, that a steamroller has over you and
made YOU as fat as postal card.