Mrs. M. Chapman lived in Mechanicsburg,  a borough of Cumberland County in south-central Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanicsburg,_Pennsylvania

This rich agricultural area of the Cumberland Valley was crossed by a major trail, later road, leading westward.

The town was named for the two-dozen mechanics who repaired Conestoga Wagons for settlers traveling toward the frontier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon

In December of 1914, Mrs. Chapman received an art postcard from Charles Eberly.

Charles was a Cashier at First National Bank of Mechanicsburg.

It seems that Mrs. Chapman was a loyal customer of the bank, and that she was offered a free calendar should she present the postcard at the bank.

The promised calendar featured the work of a widely-used commercial printer. Thomas D. Murphy.

The Thomas D. Murphy Company of Red Oak, Iowa, had supplied the bank with calendars featuring a “de luxe” printing of a new painting, “Softly the Evening Came”.

(We have seen other postcard stories related to calendar art and to Red Oak, Iowa.)

This postcard announcement is a lovely example of the tender and sentimental work of the Thomas Murphy Company.

(The publisher has copyrighted the postcard image, but the artist appears to be “Dobson”.)

Here, a mother holds a baby and amuses the infant with an object held in her hand.

An older child watches the scene.

The setting seems to be a cottage in Scotland, as the picture is entitled, “Amusin’ the Bairn”.

One hopes that Mrs. Chapman secured her copy of the fine calendar for 1915 and that she remained a customer of the First National Bank of Mechanicsburg.

That she preserved this image throughout her life suggests that Mrs. Chapman may have been eager to display “Softly the Evening Came”.