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Posted: 29 Oct 2017

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Halloween Is the Season When Maidens Dream

Halloween Is the Season When Maidens Dream
This is the season the maidens dream
Things of future unforeseen.
Dream sweet dreams, oh! ladies fair;
But of the future have a care!

A postcard addressed on the other side to my grandmother, "Miss Annie Sturtz, Fairhope Boswell, Pa." (I'm not exactly certain where my grandmother lived at the time and why Fairhope was crossed out and Boswell written in). There are two postmarks--one from Somerset, Pa., and another from Fairhope, Pa.--both dated Oct. 29, 1908.

The handwritten message on the back of the card is "Annie taking warning. B." My grandmother evidently didn't heed the warning from the unnamed "B." and married my grandfather a year later.

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 arts enthusiast
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Such a strange card seen from the perspective of 109 years later. Was matrimony supposed to be scary (or maybe just as a joke it was), and that's why it was also Halloween themed?
6 years ago.
 Alan Mays
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I just interpreted it as a humorous message of "be careful what you wish for," since Halloween was supposedly a time when you could gaze in mirrors, throw apple peels, and play other fortune-telling games to find out about your future spouse.
6 years ago.

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