Holiday cards use humor to cope with difficult times
Holiday cards use humor to cope with difficult times By (0) Annie Brindle of Chatsworth, Georgia, places a card on the Christmas tree at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo by Bill Clark/UPI | License Photo Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The first Christmas card was, perhaps predictably, one of good cheer. The concept is commonly credited to Sir Henry Cole, the founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. To spare himself the stress of responding to the all-too-many Christmas letters he received from friends, Cole commissioned an artist to create 1,000 engraved holiday cards i...