love – Blogsy Babbles

The Little Woman

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”

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”

Sofa Sogood

We have, in this space, considered what our postcard artists have shown us about the mechanics of romantic couples sitting together on park benches, in boats, on the road in buggies or automobiles, and in hammocks. Today we shall consider the dramatic range afforded by the couch. See, there is not nearly asContinue reading “Sofa Sogood”

FUZZ ORDANED: Sunset

Unfirom, hands folded behind his back, was studying the crowd at the tennis court. None of these came within the bounds of his assignment, but this changed sometimes after a single lob. He felt a sense of foreboding, perhaps involving tennis, perhaps not. Anyone who dealt regularly with phronik felt foreboding every fewContinue reading “FUZZ ORDANED: Sunset”

Bumbershoots

I regard the coming of spring or fall as similar to getting over a bad cold. There’s no great trumpet-blared moment marking the border between the extreme and the moderate seasons; you just realize one day that you don’t notice those old symptoms any more, and haven’t for a while and, by golly, youContinue reading “Bumbershoots”

Dutch Love

If you are in the business of selling short sentiments on a regular basis, as postcard publishers once were, the problem quickly arises of how to say exactly what you said last time around, only in a new and interesting way. (This tendency is why a lot of great writers started out on theContinue reading “Dutch Love”