BsBM.wl p THE DECLINE OF THE H ! OLD POSTAL CARD Hj, I Government statistics show that Hjc'J tho salo of tho plain old fashioned H R postnl cards has greatly fallen off H M during recent years. Tho picture H post card has of courso, driven It out H' 5 of popularity. HY, H Then, too, ono quostlons It tho old Hi I habit of postal card correspondence H h has not gono by. H t Most of us can remember woll H (I maiden aunts nnd others who wore Hi ! noted for tholr ability to write long ';! cfftiHlona on postal cards. Somo ot Hi them prided themsolvcs on tho num Hj' ,"r f words that could bo loglbly H i written on a postal enrd. If momory HJ BOrvcs aright, this would often run HJ 1 Into tho two or throo hundreds. Fine H- J pointed pons woro pushed with a con- Hi J clso motion that Is a lost art In theso Hltj days when public school children nro H? taught to use sweeping nnd quickly Hjjj t formed strokes. H Tho cent that tho postal card sav- Hbh ed was n- consideration In tho oyes HJ of maiden aunts and others. It was H part of it well planned conservation HH of resourcos, hy which bank books HHl worn ncquirod In days of small ocon- HJ; omlo things. A two cent letter was HV; n nced'oss wasto, in which not moro- j )y the stamp, but tho cost or paper H, nm envelope was an appreciable con. H'j flldorntlon. Ri Tho publicity of tho postal card HVv message of courso might bo consldor- H iu e- a drawback. Still In the heyday HbR of this form of epistolary coramunl- HI.:' cation, it was assumed that if you BBBBBBBR IMF"aBMMMw v HHMHt 'f A'vf lived In a small town, your neighbors know your business nuywny. The publicity of tho mcBsngo does not nffoct tho snlo or tho modoru post card. Tho messages thereon Inscrib. cd are so Hat and routine, that it Is doubtful It the rural postmistress ever ev-er stops to read them. It must bo a tiresome task to wado through a scoro of cards, only to llnd such heart throbs as: "Hero I am nt Washington! Washing-ton! How nro you? Kino weather. Qoodby."