Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — Pictorial Postal Cards. [ARTICLE]

Pictorial Postal Cards.

The private mailing card la a good thing for both the Government and the citizen. Its use tn preference to the or- , dinary postal card saves money to the Federal treasury, because the Postoffice Department gets a cent for each • such card without any deduction for the cost of manufacture. On the other hand, the Individual enjoys a freedom never before granted which will prove a great convenience in many ways. One of the most agreeable features of travel in Europe nowadays to the homo friends of the tourist is the growth in recent years of the custom by which he can send them mailing cards that bear pictures of the finest scenery and the most notable buildings in the regions through which he passes, week by week. A series of such cards mailed during a tour up the Rhine or across Switzerland makes a collection well worth having. Doubtless we will soon see in this country cards with views of the Catskills, the Adirondacks, the White and Green Mountains, and other picturesque regions throughout the United States. These cards ought to become popular with people In the country who have attractive sites which they would recommend to the* summer boarder, and in other ways their utilitatian advantages will prove many and great. —New York Post