This postcard was not mailed, but is part of a popular series of romantic postcards that were widely-exchanged circa 1910.
We have seen other postcards of the same style:
“How Could I Suffer Love’s Alarms” and “There’s No Other Place to Woo”.
Each postcard in the series shows an amorous couple in a romantic situation: a hammock, a rowboat, a canoe, a loveseat, etc.
Some of the characters reappear in different couplings – the distinctive hairstyle of the woman and the light suit of the beau become familiar.
Beneath each scene is a rhyming couplet -sometimes of ungainly rhyme or meter.
All of the postcards were “Printed in Germany”.
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Here, we see a young woman sitting awkwardly on a striped hammock.
Her relaxation may have been interrupted by the approach of the suitor in a suit of pale blue or grey.
Her parasol lies on the grass.
The woman’s hair is intricately fixed with decorative pins; the arrangement matches somewhat the pattern of her dress.
Our respectful beau carries his straw “boater”.
Beneath the drawing, a couplet describes the woman’s response to her visitor:
“With you I don’t know where I’m at.
You make my heart go pit-a-pat.”
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Although many of these postcards were mailed, it is not uncommon to find batches of them that were never used.
One assumes that some postcard collectors of the early 20th century were charmed by these views of courtship and that they attempted to collect a full set of them.
I do not know how many variations were printed, but I have seen more than a dozen scenes like this one.
