Show THE POSTCARD DISEASE Symptoms and Results Result of a Malady Which Has Spread Over Oer the Globe Boston Herald In the last few years a a new disease has ha appeared on the earth and rha spread with incredible rapidity over all al parts of the globe where may be found Indeed Inde Us its is germs gers have been ben disseminated chiefly by the mails mals malsI It I te is I a disease of the brain caused cause by bya a germ which has at last lat been ben isolated though as a yet et no neutralizing agent has ha been ben found It I attacks alike alke old and young only infants and very young children being immune The he initial attack gives Immunity from a second send because bause the first lasts Jat as long as a the victim does The onset is usually sudden The worm attacks the ins the optic nerve nere and ad rap Idly makes make Its Is way to the brain brin ThE first symptom is a a feeling of intense pleasure upon receiving a postcard and anda a desire desir to reciprocate in kind If I this desire deir be sternly repressed and the pic pie picture picture ture postcard consigned at once to the flames fame there is a a possibility that the attack be may averted If I as is almost Invariably the case the victim yields Ields through ignorance of offs Ids his ailment the motor centers will wi le be become come colne Involved a d he will wl rush to the nearest ilea est drug stor store or picture postcard From this point pint the th progress If if the Ils hie ea ease j is rapid The victim may be b heard at i ren ers and ad railway stations shrieking Be sure and an send lots of ot picture picure postcards af at after after atter ter his departing friends who In nine cases cas out of ot ten are as a badly off of as ns Its himself himsl This germ gen has hs now reached the Brocas Bras convolution the speech cen center center center ter of ot the brain and after ater this the dis disease dise disease ease e is said sid to be b incurable The Th victim will wf now Invite you ou to din dinner dinner dinner ner and an then will wi require you ou to wade wae through albums filled with wih multitudinous bus nUI atrocities in color Clr showing where he has hs been where his friends have haven ben been n and where he will wi go in his next vacation vacti tim tm And you will wH say s Wonderful beau beautiful bu beautiful interesting and even gorgeous till tl you begin to feel fel like le a a phonograph with wIt a limited vocabulary By he time the th fifth volume is reached reche you ou are ready redy to take leave of your host hot he protesting that it Is not late and that his collection Is I Ithe the most mot interesting of all al and that you really raly must mut see s it another time Victims of this disease are always in interested In art art and with wih a collection of moderate size siz they tey will wi assume the air of a connoisseur They will m show you ou the Mona rona Lisa Lis on ona ona a postcard and will wl assure you that it itIs I itis Is an exact reproduction especially esp lal as asto ast asto to t color Clor and a that it was painted by da d eyeing you fur furtively furtively to see s if the pure Italian accent has h impressed d you You at once ask it If I they have have a a picture of Spring and honors are ar even Youl be b called cle on to admire In one evening the th frescoes of Andrea Andre del delSarto el Sarto the Grand Canyon of or the Cobra Colora Colorado do the Cathedral of St Sophia and the th California pepper tree tre sufferer has hasby hasby by this time lost Jot all al sense seni of or proportion and an art ar to him ia is 1 one great gt conglomeration tion ton of picture postcards In the later stages stage of the disease disca a I I new symptom develops develop the victim beng benl unable to t w write rite except on o the margin tr ln of ofa a postcard The thought of writing a aletter letter etter leter becomes be abhorrent and even the sight of ot an envelope may be followed by unpleasant sensations The case cas cs Is recorded r re of a woman who traveled raveled abroad for two years ers and In that time sent nt her husband 2280 postal cards cr and only two letters letter x At the end of ot the th second send year he h wrote telling ten her hr of the death deth of her mother Her reply repy came ame on the margin of a postcard Am sending you this lovely picture of the Taj Ta Mahal If I only dear mamma could have hae a tomb like this on ever sc so small smal a scale I grieve Am leaving for home at once so Sf s may ma not be able to send any more md For obvious reasons lovers loers are the th greatest sufferers when tbs stage of ot the disease Is reached and It i is upon this class of unfortunates that tat the antitoxic serum found serm found will be first used when it I is I I I |