Mr. C. H. Humphreys lived in Morrisville, a borough in Bucks County of southeast Pennsylvania.

Interestingly, Morrisville was first established as a trading post of the Dutch East India Company from 1624-1627.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrisville,_Bucks_County,_Pennsylvania

The borough is below the falls on the Delaware River, opposite Trenton, New Jersey.  

Sometime around 1910, Mr. Humphreys was celebrating his birthday.

He received a postcard greeting from his friend, Aaron Young.

The postcard was not mailed, which suggest that Aaron was a neighbor or close friend.

Because postcard greetings were commonly exchanged between classmates in school or Sunday School, we must consider the possibility that the correspondents were students together.

The face of the postcard is a fine drawing of a woman’s hand extended with a bunch of irises.

A bracelet of pearls and a cameo ring adorn the woman’s hand.

The irises are of various hues, and the bouquet would be even more attractive if glitter had not been applied in indelicate clumps.

Glittering letters also proclaim the message, “Birthday Greetings”.

One can see how the glitter has been abraded from several letters – and, until I made digital repairs to this scan, one would see also the effects (pockmarks and erased spaces in the blossoms) of the dislodged glitter.

The postcard was printed in Europe, as indicated by the multi-lingual detail on the reverse.

I learned recently that the Post Office banned the mailing of commercial postcards with glitter in 1907.

It is not a surprise that post masters and post offices were not happy with bits of glitter loose in mailbags, canceling machines, or stamp drawers.

Mr. Humphreys seems to have enjoyed this birthday remembrance as he preserved it throughout his life.

One hopes that Mr. Humphreys had a wonderful birthday and that he and Aaron remained friends and correspondents for many years.