I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape Looks like oak to me

Looks like oak to me

And then Hattie shows us the cider mill and tells us how bad she felt when Witneose went away when he was 2 years old and was sick in three or four days and seems to have disappeared: "Oh how I wish I had Witenose now

I assume meaning a child's size 8

And I believe there would originally have been nine of them

which just pops (though the polka dotted ends of her obi are pretty great too

I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape Looks like oak to meWhat a strikingly handsome couple these two, and what an interesting postcard their portrait a real photo, pasted down, but the mount a pre printed postcard (first decade 1900s I believe; undivided back, 2 cent stamp) with the embossed text reading "I am still single. How are you?" I've found a few other examples of postcard mounts in just the same style as this one with other (mostly silly sorts of) embossed messages; but here, and a good part of why