Mailed just two days before Christmas 1913 from Harbor Beach, Michigan, this quietly beautiful card carries a poem as earnest as the sender's hand that wrote it — from someone named "Mr. & Mrs. Paddock" to a couple named "Wm. and Mrs. Stringer" at 604 14th Street in Port Huron. The front features a serene winter landscape of snow-covered hills and bare pine trees rendered in cool blue-gray tones with an Art Nouveau panel composition, the verse reading: "My wish for you is just the same / As very many more / But none more earnest ever came / Or will come to your door." The card's restrained palette and clean graphic design reflect the aesthetic sensibilities of the early 1910s. A 2-cent Washington stamp franks the reverse, and the Harbor Beach, Michigan postmark is clearly legible — a pleasing provenance for Michigan postal history collectors.