A Toast To -

Antique greetings post card
Circa 1912
Postmark Bloomingburg N.Y.
Art by Dwig for Raphael Tuck & Sons

A woman raises a glass to the past and to Father Time, who turns her wine glass into an hourglass.

There's always a song to the future,
To the years that stretch on ahead,
There's always a toast to the things that are new,
To life's books which have never been read.

But here's to what lies behind us,
To the heartaches, the failures, the tears,
We are better able for just those things
To drink to the future years.

 About the artist - C.V. Dwiggins

Known for his humorous style and jaunty signature of "Dwig", Clare Victor Dwiggins was an extremely popular and prolific postcard illustrator. In his youth, he and his friends formed a "traveling college" of art, with himself as "Professor of Free-hand Drawing." At 16, he left school to join an architect's staff, and at 24, he moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a cartoonist (at two dollars a week!). Within a few years he was in New York at the World, producing the nation's first half-page Sunday cartoon feature, "School Days," which ran from 1910 until 1932.

Dwig's first postcard designs were published by Raphael Tuck and Sons in 1903, and he went on to illustrate many more for Tuck, Charles Rose, and several other prominent card makers. Many of his best postcard designs featured comic wordplay, dry humor and puns, lavish design with art nouveau swirls, and beautiful girls - modeled after his wife.
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