As we have been pointing out for the last two weeks, the postcard cartoonists enjoyed a gentle laugh at a romantic couple of contrasting sizes, while at the same time showing that love is not hampered by such concerns. What DOES hamper love? Well, in the view of the cartoonists, the chief obstacle toContinue reading “The Little Woman”
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Height of Devotion
We have spent a certain amount of space in this blog, over the last couple of weeks, discussing how little a difference in size seems to make when it came to romance in postcard cartoons. We have considered the round man paired with the skinny woman, the skinny man and the round woman, andContinue reading “Height of Devotion”
Size Does NOT Matter
In our last thrilling installment, we considered postcards which made jokes about couples who were mismatched in waist size: a round man and a spindly woman or vice versa. But apparently the postcard cartoonists found disparity in height to be nearly as hilarious. The tall man and the short(er) woman gave rise to jokesContinue reading “Size Does NOT Matter”