Miss Stella Corcoran lived in Bendena, a census-designated place in the northeast corner of Kansas -about 15 miles north of Atchison.

Bendena had another name at its founding, but the Post Office required a new name when the post office was established in the community.

Bendena was named for the sweetheart of the first telegraph operator of the “Chicago, Kansas, and Nebraska Railroad”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendena,_Kansas

Sometime around 1910 (the postmark is largely unreadable), Stella received a postcard from her friend, Cora.

Cora wrote from an unknown place, but she seems to be familiar with the small towns near Stella.

The face of the postcard has a photographic image that appears to be made with a flash.

Before the development of the flash bulb in 1929, photographers ignited flash powder in an open flame.

I have seen very few photographs such as this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(photography)

In the photograph, a young couple converses in a stately parlor. The young woman is seated on a sofa, while her suitor leans toward her while standing behind the piece of furniture.

Both figures are in formal dress; it may be the aftermath of a dinner or an evening’s entertainment.

The young woman seems to have had a pleasurable time as the caption reads:

“Come to see me again”.

On the reverse, Cora alludes to a lapse in her correspondence.

She writes, “Suppose you think I have forgotten you but I haven’t.”

Cora follows with a question, “Did you go to the last Brenner dance?”

Brenner is a now-vanished community that was founded along the route of the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad – not far from Bendena.

The Post Office in Brenner was closed in 1917.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner,_Kansas

It seems that Cora was curious about the local dance.

One hopes that Stella was pleased by the romantic postcard and that she provided some news to Cora.