"From Illinois and California—A spray of the giant redwood tree, and a spray of the old fashioned 'yarb' our grandmothers used."
Another said on the back: "Just to let you know that some one thinks of the Missouri boys and wants to help them pass a minute away opening a curious envelope."
So they ran. The merriment occasioned by the distribution of these envelopes, as that addressed "to one who feels himself to be very young," was delivered to a bald-headed fellow, and the one addressed "to a good child," was delivered to one whom common acclamation pronounced to be worse than Peck's Bad Boy, would have gratified the sender with a vision such as she could hardly have expected.
A rhyme contained in the one addressed "to a dyspeptic," ran as follows:
"It is better to laugh than be sighing,
And sighing's no sign that you're sad,
'Tis often a sine qua non, sir,
That proves your digestion is bad.
"So smile at your previous groaning,