One more series of late 1800's postcards for you today, and while these are technically postcards, they are actually also a series of six advertisements for Fastidio Cigars, which was apparently a popular smoke from Havana back in the day. Now the difference between this set of postcards and the previous sets I've posted this month is that these tell more than just a romantic story-- these spell out how a series of blundering mishaps can do no harm to the mental well-being of a Fastidio cigar smoker. Let me see if I can properly narrate the action as played out below:
1.) During a lovely, but lengthy long walk through the forest, we find our cute couple resting for a spell. Our anxious young man finds this to be the appropriate time (on bended knee) to plead his undying love and intentions for our seated (on a dirty old log) damsel in distraction.
2.) After receiving the rather obvious cold shoulder, our couple stands back up to continue their now longer, awkward journey back upon the lakeside path, when "hello!" our handsomely frazzled fellow spots a bit of dirty old log schmutz on the young lady's dress!
3.) Not a problem. We're by the lake after all, and a dab or two of water will surely remedy the--
4.) Ooops!
5.) "Now look what you've done, you foozler!" she screams, after having clearly pulled him into the water with her.
6.) Giving her a moment to cool off, as well as dry-out, I'm assuming our hapless hero is taking a moment behind the bushes to either smoke a Fastidio, or maybe he's peeking through said bushes at her and etc etc... because it totally was her fault, after all.
Four of the postcard backs do a bit more Fastidio advert razzle-dazzle, while the other two have the traditional style postcard mailer backs. A fun series for sure, and I still can't believe I found all of them as they were scattered throughout hundreds of other various postcards in 4 different boxes.
