Shall I Be the Happy One Who Wins Your Favor?
Check out my book of detachable acquaintance cards: May I See You Home?: 19th-Century Pickups for 21st-Century Suitors, by Alan Mays.
This is an acquaintance card—also called an escort, invitation, or flirtation card—that dates to the nineteenth century. For another card with the same illustration but a different text, see Shall I Be the Proud Bird Who Escorts You Home Tonight?
Miss ________
Shall I be the happy one who wins your favor, or the disconsolate young man in the picture at the right, this evening?
Yours truly,
W. A. Patten
Shall I Be the Happy One Who Wins Your Favor?
Check out my book of detachable acquaintance cards: May I See You Home?: 19th-Century Pickups for 21st-Century Suitors, by Alan Mays.
This is an acquaintance card—also called an escort, invitation, or flirtation card—that dates to the nineteenth century. For another card with the same illustration but a different text, see Shall I Be the Proud Bird Who Escorts You Home Tonight?
Miss ________
Shall I be the happy one who wins your favor, or the disconsolate young man in the picture at the right, this evening?
Yours truly,
W. A. Patten