In the peacetime the sweethearts enjoy each other’s company cruising around in the state-of-the-art automobile, no longer interested in horseback riding over pastoral scenery. Love, being the driving force of human interaction, was expected to reckon with the new era of unprecedented technological progress. For another thing, WW1 with its propaganda of male heroism and female faithfulness also had an influence on the genre. The story is simple: he is to go to war with the odds being against him; both are aware of this, which brings their passion for each other to a head. These wartime cards provide a fine illustration to the much-documented tendency of governments to use popular art as a channel for spirit-boosting propaganda. In the peacetime the sweethearts enjoy each other’s company cruising around in the state-of-the-art automobile, no longer interested in horseback riding over pastoral scenery. Love, being the driving force of human interaction, was expected to reckon with the new era of unprecedented technological progress.