The Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Wemple were on a trip to Las Vegas, the city and seat of San Miguel County on the Gallinas River in north-central New Mexico.
The city was founded when a group of US settlers received a land grant from the Mexican Government in 1835.
The city prospered as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail and, after 1879, a station for the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas,_New_Mexico
In June of 1909, the Wemples received a postcard from Ethel.
Ethel mailed the postcard from Albany, the capital city on the Hudson River in central New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany,_New_York
It appears as though the Wemples were staying within another household -the postcard is addressed in care of E. E. Veeder.
The face of the postcard is a bit of original art portraying a young woman standing at a dock on a small mountain lake or stream.
Across the water, one sees a cozy, rustic cottage that appears to have a thatched roof.
The sky is brilliantly-colored with the hues of sunset, casting dramatic light on the nearby trees and the hills beyond.
The art postcard was “Printed in Saxony”, although I cannot distinguish the publisher.
(To show the original beauty of the postcard, I made an image in which the date written by Ethel and some random postage smudges are removed digitally.)
On the reverse, Ethel relates the news from what appears to be the home of the Wemples.
On Tuesday, Ethel “went to the house” and “everything is alright.”
In the yard, however, Ethel encountered Mr. Teddy.
To Ethel, “Mr. Teddy appeared to be very blue”.
Although Ethel “talked to him for some time”, Ethel believes Mr. Teddy “is lonesome without the happy family around him.”
Ethel promises to “try and console him all I can with lots of love from Mother and myself”.
I believe that Mr. Teddy may be a much-loved pet, but it is possible that this is a handy-man or gardener, or a neighbor.
Mrs. Wemple seems to have brought the postcard back to Albany and to have preserved it throughout her life.
One hopes that the Wemples accomplished the purpose of their visit to New Mexico, that they returned safely to Albany, that Mr. Teddy, regained his usual good spirits, and that Ethel and her mother remained good friends and neighbors for many years.