Frank lived in Buffalo, the industrial and transportation powerhouse on Lake Erie in northwest New York.

Frank had a friend, Sara, who lived in the beautiful town of Niagara-on-the-Lake- on the peninsula where the Niagara River reaches Lake Ontario in Canada.

In July of a year near 1910, Sara mailed a postcard to Frank.

The postcard bears the humorous drawing of a lanky, top-hatted, youth holding a bouquet of flowers at a stage door.

It appears that the swain hopes to meet a showgirl.

On the ground is an empty bottle of booze, contributing to the suggestion that this is the path of vice.

The legend reads, “THIS IS NO PLACE FOR A MINISTER’S SON”.

This comic postcard was copyright in 1910 by Roth & Langley of New York.

On the reverse, Sara laments the endless days of hot weather.

She writes, “I feel like dying in the heat”.

As a minister’s son, I found the postcard to be hilarious.

One hopes that Frank and Sara enjoyed a friendly correspondence for many years.