Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1916 — VACATION POSTALS A BORE [ARTICLE]

VACATION POSTALS A BORE

Only Things That Tend to Disturb a Person Who Is Left Alone in Great City. tThen all your friends are away vacationing and it seeifis as if you. were alone in the great city you are not conscious that you gre missing anything and you could be happy except for the highly colored vacation postals. Every summer mail brings a drift of them? Helena Smith-Dayton writes In Cartoons Magazine. Your stenographer Is posing as an heiress down at Clamville-by-the-Sea and crowded on to the address side of a picture postal, showing the hotel at which she is not stopping, is her hope that “everything Is going all right at the office” and she’s “having a glorious time” and may she “take an extra w'eek at her own expense?” ' Perhaps you could endure all the other pictured paradises that come to you from the vacation corners of the earth If Tom Blake, in his arrogance, hadn’t sent you one of those photo postals. Every season previously you .and Tom have been off on fishing trips together and have never caught anything larger than a sardine. And now' here he is posed with a fish as large as a Shetland pony. As you gaze at the picture you realize for the first tirq£ what a homely man Tom really is. Someone ought to fell Tom that he’s too plain a man to have his picture taken with a fish; there isn’t enough contrast.