Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) two tones his looking like the feather

his looking like the feather end of an arrow while hers looks rather like a rain cloud

I think this was most likely part of a singing bird cage or cuckoo clock or something similar

It seems AL must have run through the ink of several pens drawing this

The swatter itself is a pretty fun one too

Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) two tones his looking like the featherJust a beauty of a girl and a portrait I think, no explication required! Quite angeliic looking but something in that face suggests to me that she was more than a handful! No message at all on reverse but addressed simply to Oval Thurston of Fountain City (Indiana) and postmarked Dec, 23, 1909 with a nice flag cancellation. (I've found some records of Oval such a good name! who was married in Fountain City in 1910.) 5 7 16" x 3 7 16" and in very good