As we have, in this space, considered the place held in postcard cartoons by cigarettes and cigars, it is only logical to move to the pipe. (I dislike to throw spoilers into my text, but those of you who were planning to come around next Wednesday to read about snuff, snoose, or other similarContinue reading “He Called For His Pipe”
Tag Archives: Dutch
Dutch Rhymes
Okay, we have tiptoed around the subject long enough. We looked over the Dutch kids postcards in a couple of columns recently, and we discussed postcard verse. But we have, except very briefly, evaded the subject of Dutch kids and poetry on postcards. We will repair this omission today. As you may recallContinue reading “Dutch Rhymes”
Wooden Shoe Know It
It has been a little while since we checked in with the Dutch kids, and their postcards do keep rolling in. For those of you who missed my earlier perorations on the subject, there was, in the 1910s, a mysterious (to me, anyhow) fascination with postcards featuring children who dressed in the folk costumeContinue reading “Wooden Shoe Know It”
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