Show VALENTINE SUPPLY BARES NEW IDEAS Stores Are Carrying Great Va Variety Variety Variety of Original and An Antique Antique Antique tique Creations PRICES TAKE WIDE RANGE OFFERINGS ARE SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY EVERYBODY Someone once said that there was nothing new under either the sun or orthe orthe orthe the moon But that particular Indi Individual Individual vidual was mistaken There are many new things especially in the line of valentines There are more different sorts of original and unique Cupid Messages this year than the freckles of a redheaded boy In the good old summer time In addition to that per perennial perennial bloomed the lacey love smeared af affair fair the valentine shopper this season has a dazzling variety of novelties from which to select his or her little contri contribution contribution to the Joy of the day For 5 6 cents a lovely love token may maybe maybe maybe be purchased and if the purchaser has hasa a read bad case he or she may go as high as 5 for a veritable creation of the valentine makers art that would cause Dan Cupid to drool for very joy could he but glue his roguish eyes upon it Of Ot the old penny dreadful comics there are the usual thousand and one grotesque horrible nightmares and incidentally the usual demand for them Among the newer varieties Is the classified ad valentine a large card decorated with a humorous colored pic pie picture ture fifty different sorts and bearing ads of the following sort Woman strong in mind and body capable of doing a mans work would like to meet a man who If It necessary could do the cooking tend the baby Iron bake and make his own shirts Object matrimony Traveling man of ot good habits and high aspirations would like to meet heiress External attractions no ob object Sect j ct Object matrimony Speculative S gent of exquisite taste in dress in receipt of a large income would like to meet a lady with a fortune which he could double and treble quickly Object matrimony and speculation Wonderful Characteristics Wanted A blond widower of pa patient patient patient tient and drooping disposition desires the acquaintance of a cheerful and up uplifting uplifting lifting young oung widow accustomed to the care of children Ono One with ample means preferred Object matrimony Then there Is the printed in the form of a summons which de demands demands mands mantis the presence of the recipient to the court of Hymen to answer to serious charges against him hun or her also to the court of Cupid to answer to the charge of having stolen the plaintiffs heart There also Is the warrant for arrest by order of St Valentine of the re recipient recipient recipient for having hitherto evaded Loves law lawOne lawOne lawOne One particularly striking valentine is en tn elaborate affair decorated with a paper mac mache he lobster and labeled To ToMy ToMy ToMy My Dear Old Lobster The following mechanical novelties manufactured in Germany are going big this year as also are those valen valentines valentines valentines tines with hairbrush effect on velvet many of beautiful design Among the cute may be classed Cupids Its Ifs and Buts which are told In the following style If I but thought that you ou loved me If I but really knew If It I but had your own sweet love If I but thought you ou true If It I but had your heart alone If It I but thought it sure If I but had you for my own Id if and but no more Among the cleverest of the late con conceits conceits conceits are the valentines In the shape of pipes eyes apples corn cabbages pea pods red peppers butterflies dogs cats lemons and the like These go under the title of surprise comics The most amusing of these is one which shows a huge mouth la Ia labeled labeled on the Inside Laugh and the world laughs with you ou There are scores of different kinds of postcard valentines Including the se serious serious serious rious and the funny comic where alleged comical figures bob up when the valentine Is opened Possibly the neatest thing In the val valentine valentine valentine I entine line Una and the most sensible by bythe bythe bythe the way Is the valentine book which may mean anything in the book line that has to do with love courtship or marriage or any of the hundred andone and andone andone one kindred themes Among the valen yalen valentine valentine tine books Rileys Love Poems and Cupids Diary or the Original Let Letters Letters Letters should prove popular |