This may amuse you, or at least change the way you look at social media. Today we are going to talk about "bloomscrolling", or looking for beautiful flowers in your daily feed to cheer you up - the total opposite of "doomscrolling" which is looking for not so beautiful things that make you despair. I did not invent the term but The Mercury News knows who did.
Here we have bloomscrolling as it was a hundred and twenty years before the term was invented. It shows a beautiful flower and a pretty girl, or her head anyway. And it would have excited the original finder of the card no end, though I have to say that if he had handed it to a really small boy they would have been less impressed, because they would have rather had a cowboy, or a pirate. Your tastes change as you grow up (though I admit I would still rather have a cowboy or a pirate).
Sadly the card is not titled, not backlisted so the flower is not identifiable to me other than a guess that it might be a carnation? What do I know? But do please show those in your life who are more into flowers, and I await to hear what they, or you, come up with. Also by showing of cards to those who never see them, or only imagine they are of more masculine interest, you may get a little stirring begin, and even a possible new collector....
Took a while to find this in our original World Tobacco Issues Index, and there is not much description, only "BEAUTIES - FLOWER GIRLS (A) (25) See RB.18/67 Ref. USA/T.400-7". It is slightly altered in the updated version, because RB.18 has been superseded by RB.118, but it is still RB.118/67. I do not have that but I do have the original and will add what that says asap.
Now a quick note. Tomorrow the abnormal system will resume as I am out at a second concert. Therefore the front will appear tonight and the back will appear next to it tomorrow night at 8 pm whilst I am otherwise engaged. Thanks for your understanding. And, so sadly, that is the last concert for me because I do not have a passport, and the tour continues overseas.....