Show N A DI BIG Bm FAD The New Disease Adds to the Woes of the Mail Carrier PICTORIAL MISSIVES SALE Are rc 1 Twenty Seven Twenty Twenty-Se out en Mulled E or Minute of or the tile Du Day in Chicago lo that's that's the time now lie disease dis- dis ease euve or 01 at al least that's what L ache Sams Sam's wearied wearle mall agents call it Its It's the remarkable fad nothing fad nothing like e It Jt enthusiasm and extent was ever known In the history of oC tho the world world- for purchasing and mailing picture postcards As for the time extent of oC the fad postcards postcards post post- cards Ids literally encircle the globe Youcan You Youcan Youcan can bu buy them at a little art mt shop on tho thu banks of oC the Nile you can rInd find them in the Jungle towns of India on the swept snow plains of ot Siberia and I t thc tho he Islands of oC the tho south seas In the United States alone nearly arc are sold yearly yearl it Is estimated 1 Nothing was ever conceived having 1 so 0 ninny many twists and and turns Romance sentiment fun friendship e education and business arc are the handmaidens of or orthe the postcard It is the cent 2 2 link that binds tho the people of the earth In good- good natured fellowship By ny it the traveler pictures his progress ress to the thc con folks s at rat home the they follow Collow him In his Journeys Journe's an and gaze gRZe upon the scenes that Interest him The friend In the East Fast and the friend in tho the West rest exchange postcards s and reveal to each other their home surroundings Almost be beyond ond belief belleC is the demand for fOI these souvenirs Ono One Sun Sunday ay last Au August picture cards were mailed at Coney Cone Island How many more were put purchased chased to tobe tobe tobe be carried home is beyond conjecture Germs Germ's ills ill's Origin ln Unknown u Xo No one knows kl whence came the germs of Different authorities authorIties authorities au au- have traced the origin to Germany German to France and to Scotland Scotland- the Inquiring Inquiring- mind upon research bent can take Its choice The disease is here however sweep sweep- sweeping sweepIng sweeping ing the land land all all lands in fact with tact with witha a relentless onrush that nothing can turn aside Rich and poor high and low thin and fat tat regardless of ot age color sex or previous condition of ser ser- servitude r- r all all become infected Without warning the thc contagion attacks at attacks attacks at- at tacks and its ravages spread with startling rapidity until communities arc are seized A man for or instance may be standing standIng standIng stand- stand Ing Ing- Ingon on the street In front of ot a drugstore drug drugstore rug store window when a display of ot postcards postcards postcards post post- cards attracts his attention Impelled b by curiosity with all his senses seemingly unimpaired he walks Insl inside e to inspect the collections and soon 11 Is buying as eagerly as anyone anone He has contracted It is Js a malady that rarely dc deserts erts the tho victim Go where he hc will after the initial attack and almost his first act net after artel reaching reaching- so some mo new nc place Isto is isto Isto to hunt up a postcard counter But Out this is not all He Ho spreads the tho with eVel every card Man Many a n person has l sauntered peacefully along through lifo life unmindful of the new fad until he hc has received an attractive postcard from a friend From that thal moment he became a a. victim too foo Just what can be done one in the line of Infection is illustrated by the cas ca case e of Miss Florence Walton ormer- ormer formerly of oC Wilmington Del and now of oC hew N York A friend who went abroad began be began began be- be gan by sending her souvenir cards from the various places visited until she had at the end of or the season cason a collection of oC nearl nearly Tho The next season other friends went abroad and Miss Walton ma made c them thom promise to send cards from er e every place they visited They did so Girl Received Curds Cards I Not ot only this but they gave other oilier friends of ot theirs Miss Waltons Walton's address address ad ad- dress S and they also began besan merrily contributing contributing con con- to the tho stream that was flowing flowing flow low lowIng ing h-cr h way That s season ason ended with something like cards added to her collection Even E more remarkable was a the tine season season sea sea- cuson cu- cu son Just past It seemed that ever erv body who tad laid ever known knowlI or heard of the thc young la lady y poured In upon h hr her r volley after volley of or car cards s The They had their friends s do O the same an and the tbt latter and larger circle spread time the hood good work worl with increasing vigor and Car Cards s came to Miss Walton allon from Crom all nIl parts of oC tho the world world from from Persia India In India lu- lu dia dla and Borneo from fromn SIberia Si Siberia SI- SI eJ beria and Spitzbergen At Al present nt the highly pleased young woman Is said to possess no fewer than cards Her lIel greatest trouble s 's to L td a place to keep them During the fiscal year ending with June 1905 1505 the Unit United d Status States w used ed post cards Germany In the theo same o period topped the thc list with 1 while En England land ranked cd third with That year was vim vir lually the time beginning begin begin- ning of the thed fad d In America ci During the time tlC next t twelve c months It Il Is estimated that the lie sale salo of cards in this country reach reached d over more inure find and was growing at u more furious Curious rate than ever over Tho Those e who ought to know think that this years year's figures will reach n nearly near near- arI ar- ar I ly This Ills IK is u a little over twelve car curds cards M for Cor every cry man woman and child in the he countr country A remarkable statement thIs seems scents But consider that almost every drug drugstore store stationery t store loro department t store hotel newsstand an and man many mammy other places of business handle handlo these cards card s sand and sell great numbers of oC them Besides in hm most moe mo t l of oC the cities ClUCK there ther e are little shops devoted almost exclusively ex elusively to the tho sale of oC post cards A large c manufacturing firm finds ln s tho the business q so remunerative that IL It I Is s opening branch after aCter branch In III various s cities clUes as fast as it can secure locations s and begin In business until it expects t to lo 0 girdle chain and Intersect tho the country country country coun coun- try Were cre it not for COI the thc sale of postcards post post- cards cardu and soda sott waters thousands o ot f drugstores ru stores perhaps would be e compelled com cons pelted to close their doors BI Big IJu Bu s In u Someone with a I statistical on i In the Chlea Chicago o postoffice took occasion n to keep keel count for a certain period o othe othe ot f the number of ot cards mailed in tha that t city Ho found found and and this was about a D before the time fad reached year ago an any anywhere anywhere where near neal Its Us present proportions that twenty-seven twenty cards were malle mailed d every cry minute of the thc twenty four hours hour s L LIn In other words every time lino the tho sec second ec ond and hand on the lima watch ticked licked e and antI was on tho the half halt of or the tho third tic tick lick k somebody In Chicago mailed a a. post card carll Doubtless the tho watch tick ca Cat n Q 0 nut iut keep p pat pan today wIth whit this dropping of oC c cards lIds in the mull mall boxes s Coney Island nd holds Ih the Arm and perhaps the orld worlds world's for fOl sales es On the t Sunday of last August Au Au- August gust cards canIs were mailed mal bore I How many more molO were purchased ed to lo betaken be he beaken taken aken home as souvenirs is a t lit tit subject subJect sub- sub led for COI a U gu guessing contest Atlantic City never nevel likes lilies to be bc far behind her hel rollicking Bohemian cousin COUI- COUI in III li to the north About the third week In J July lily the authorities there sent an order to Washington fur for 0 cent 1 stamps ps a u da day r while the rush lasted Not a u large largo town physically is Akron Akron Ak Ak- ron 0 O yet about postcards are arc collected dally dully from Fromm the thu mull mall boxes that are arc without the tho necessary ry postage and rand which never nO reach their destination destina destina- tion lion Such at le least t Is the statement a clerk la is cre credited with makInS' makInS mak mak- InS ing The at New Haven en Conn Comma It Is said to handle about cards canIs a aday aday day while that at Boston It Is stated handles a a. day Front From one summer summer sum Hum mer mCI resort alon along the Maine Maino coast COO O cards were mailed a n week during durin the season IcS foams S I lie Iho Most lost Popular Of an rum nn views tho those e of Allan Atlan Atlantic tic City and anti Niagara Falls lead with New York scents scenes n a dost close third Rep tup- specimens of American architecture pictures of the thu Flat Iron building In iii New Now York and Independence ence hall in Philadelphia are alu In greatest greatest greatest great great- est demand domand The old liberty bell IsI is I also highly valued as an educational picture Alpine views claws lead the demand In Europe followed b by Mediterranean scenes and glimpses of oC Paris London Romu Romo Naples Venice and other cities ellios Pictures of oC St Marks Mark's square and church ChUIch of or St. St Peters Peter's at nt Rome Rums the time tow tower r of oC London and tho the houses of ot parliament scent the most popular of oC architectural specimens Through time the receipt of oC such cards the tho trl friends of a n traveler arc able ablo to tour the world with him to witness I scenes cen 8 and places upon which he ga gazes es 1 to t. t al appreciate moi IJ f k K mil his hI d SI si n npr rip lip 11 1 r l letters letter I J nit In- In f feature hits has a 1 vahl valuable ble educational educational side Mide as us well ell as being a u pleasing I token Loken of friendship Some of or the lul- lul esl cards bear beat beata a Ii few wor words s descriptive or historical relating to 10 the pictures Then Thon too the sentimental side need not nut deal dual with valentines and birthday cards canIs friends living far ar apart may stay become acquainted to a certain extent at least with each c-ach others other's surroundings surround surround- In ings s through h an exchange of cards cUI There here is scarcely a los m of a n few flow hundred Inhabitants that Lint Is not visited by the post card photographer to lit secure hc- hc CUI cure cuie c local vl ws and present thump them in time till salable two for I shape haJe It Is related In this connection that some sonic time limo ago nn an uge aged Indiana farmer twiner twin farm er CI received from Crom his I sun son on a n card bearIng bearing bear bear- Ing hi hia a pictured scone scene of oC Mowers lowers and anel summer verdure In lu a Minneapolis cemetery lIe He immediately concluded that his hh son Hun WUK wits tle deal dead ll and that the car card wa was Intended to break bicak the news gently to him Calling forthwith upon uron the line chief chio of of or M uncle Ill he demanded that u a detective bo him sent to Minneapolis Minneapolis- to look louk Into halo time tho matter matter- L Likely el enough nough h time the boys boy's boon mUr murdered he Ile declined declared Considerable explanation was r required CJ to disabuse his mind |