COLORING POST CARDS.

By HENRY C. DELERY.

HE Souvenir Post Card has now attained an important position among the numerous quests for collectors, and though at one time thought to be a mere fad, it has outgrown this embryonic stage and is now one of the most enjoyable, instructive and most universal innovations of the present century. For the camerist, it has particular charms and the ease and rapidity by which they can be produced, appeals to all; as with the present day appliances in photography, one can take a view, develop and print the same and mail it to one's friends on the very day that it was photographed, affording an inexpensive but pretty souvenir which expresses more in its simple mirage of nature's beauties than ever pen can describe; and the thought that the little missive is the work of the sender, renders it more precious and more likely to be appreciated by the recipient.

The market is now flooded with innumerable views, some