Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Kissing Couple & Jack O'Lantern

Apparently, when a young woman sees two people locked in a passionate kiss inside an ornate Art Nouveau frame, flanked by a small bat in the upper corner and a cheerfully glowing jack-o'-lantern below, she's supposed to understand that nothing pairs better with romantic lip contact than gourd-based surveillance. The text—addressed to 'Listen Little One!'—proceeds to deliver the extremely unhinged dating advice that when the moon goes behind a cloud, grinning cats kiss girls on the lips, and the only remedy is to 'keep them covered,' but reassures the reader that 'no doubt your friend will attend to that,' signed by 'O.U. Kid,' which is either the most threatening Halloween card ever written or Victorian-era consent discourse we simply weren't ready for. The warm candlelight glow and dreamy blue sky suggest romance; the black cat lurking at the bottom and the bat hovering above suggest this couple is being monitored by the entire Halloween ecosystem. Whoever O.U. Kid is, they had a lot going on.