Cologne, Sunday.
The German Post Office has introduced "brighter" telegrams. On payment of a small additional charge the sender can have a message delivered to the addressee written or typed on a form that is decorated with a coloured design, suitable to the occasion on which the telegram is sent.
Thus a newly-married couple, instead of receiving telegraphed good wishes from their friends on a dirty white sheet of paper, will be handed a special form emblazoned with a woodcut of a wedding car.
A pair of doves, designed in three colours, will convey good luck and happiness to engaged couples, and so forth.
To those in doubt expert officials will tender advice as to the most suitable design to select, but they will not undertake to guarantee that the recipient will be pleased.
The possibilities of the idea are unlimited. So far the decorated forms are being confined to "good wishes," but further series will be available later. Some of these latter should prove interesting.
The Irish Times, March 11th, 1939.