Jolly Halloween: I wonder!
Halloween Postcard
31 October 1923
[ Postmark: New Orleans, 31 October 1923 ]
I wonder!
if the other [side]
is true
Billy
I wrote you a letter
it came back twice
I'm going to try again
W.
[ To: ]
Miss Vera Howe
492 — 31st Ave
Milwaukee
Wis.
JOLLY
HALLOWE'EN
The witch is using
her magic spoon,
And seems to say
"You'll get married
soon."
Notes by RWF:
The witch's prediction with her bowl and spoon is one of a huge number of types of folk divinations alleged to reveal whether one was to marry soon, and/or to whom. The cat seems surprised.
Vera Howe was seventeen years old. The answer to the prediction, and to Billy's wondering, is: No, not soon at all. And (in case he was hinting or wondering about that, too) not to Billy.
© 2012 Robert Wilfred Franson
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