See Your Future Husband in a Mirror on Halloween

An unusual old Halloween custom involved taking a candle and looking into a mirror to see your future husband's face. This postcard is one of a series illustrating that tradition. This card appears to show the culmination of the ritual, when the couple has met and kissed.

Listen, Little One!

On Halloween take a candle

and look into a mirror, then

over your shoulder you'll see

your future hubby's face –of course this

affair must be prearranged to be successful for the Witches are

busy and can't tend to every body

O. U. KID

When I searched for information about this Halloween custom and the expression "O. U. Kid." I found a blog with several posts displaying postcards and discussing these subjects. Instead of repeating the information, I will give you the links to those posts. There are many more postcards there and the posts are well worth reading.

Vintage Halloween Postcard: Look In The Glass

Vintage Halloween Postcard: Your True Love’s Face

Vintage Halloween Postcard: The Candles Gleam

Halloween Reflections

Oh, You Kid

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Map: Jamaica

Map of Jamaica, The W. I.

Martin Bros. Restaurant

MARTIN BROS.

Located on U.S. Highways 11 and 90 in suburban New Orleans, 5 Miles East of Canal St.

Widely known for its excellent cuisine, specializing in seafoods of all kinds, choice western steaks, and New Orleans fried chicken. Expertly mixed drinks served at untra modern bar. Home of the famous New Orleans "Poor Boy." Open 24 hours.

 
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PPIE: Butterick Exhibit

Butterick Exhibit

Panama – Pacific Exposition

San Francisco 1915

CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE 1915 PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
in San Francisco
&
THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1939-40 WORLD'S FAIRS
in New York and San Francisco
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Map: Everglades National Park

Map of Florida's Everglades National Park

Royal Palms Tea Room

Located just one mile from the business center of Sarasota, Florasota gardens faces quaint Hudson Bayou overlooking magnificent Sarasota Bay. The streets and grounds are elegantly landscaped with luxuriant tropical palms, trees, shrubs, and flowers of untold varieties. A fresh water swimming pool fed by a continuous flow of artesian wells overlooks a tropical lagoon where white swans, geese, ducks, and unusual bird life abound.

 
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Stair Step Children

The real photo postcard above has no identifying information. I bought it because it is a classic example of a portrait of stair step children. The term stair step children sometimes refers to children of a family who are spaced closely in age. Its meaning is more obvious when the children are spaced fairly evenly, but farther apart. When the children are lined up standing from youngest to oldest, or shortest to tallest, they resemble stair steps

Below is a family portrait I found on the Internet. It was posted on a Polish blog here, along with some other old pictures of children. There are seven steps here--five children and two parents.

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