Two Edwardian women share a cheeky moment — one pressed to a wall telephone, the other perched in a parlor chair — beneath the saucy caption "Are You There? Take my advice. Don't Sow Your Wild Oats — They are bad Reaping," a winking proverb that passed for risqué wit in 1908 America. This hand-tinted photo-composite comic postcard was mailed from Cleveland, Ohio, on July 8, 1908, by Otto, who sent warm regards to Nellie and inquired after Mary and "the boys" in Youngstown. The colorized Edwardian fashions — high-button boots, leg-of-mutton sleeves, floor-length skirts — are a lively study in the period's style, while the early candlestick telephone anchors the image firmly in the dawn of domestic telephony.