Show 61 VALENTINE r s Originally Valentine was a respectable re-spectable sort of a saint and the love message 5ent out in his name were silso respectable The saint himself may hive retained through all these ages his original character and still be as Guiteau would remark re-mark a highloned person as the patron of lovers and lovemaking ought to be bat ir he should return to earth and spend a week during his anniversary time how his old heart would bleed over the mischief mis-chief done in his name The first thing he would do after recovering from his grief would be to call upon the duly elected and certificated authorities authori-ties to destroy all the villainous valentines of the twoforacent variety va-riety and should the officers need assistance in executing the task the decent portion of the community would at once resolve itself into a posse commitatus for helping to carry the decree into effect A proper valentine is a pretty thing Cranky bachelors may find fault with it on the ground that it is spoony and soft particularly as to the little rhyme intended to convey sentiments of affection This softness is not an offense at buih a time nor in the I matter Lovemaking is in itself soft and spoony Nature seems to have ordained that it should be so Poetic expressions of amatory sentiment senti-ment are us aally lame and imperfect imper-fect ct hether they are sent as valentines valen-tines or go as missives at any season sea-son of the year But these valentines valen-tines are pretty and proper and no doubt any lady is delighted when she ie2eivesthem Art as well as the muse have beth contributed to make them all that an intelligent girl could expect or desire in the way of beauty or rhyme There are also styles and prices to suit every taste and pocket Then all sizes and shapes and I designsbig little plain speckled frilled fringed testhe i3 and otherwise other-wise And the poetry though limping and no of the madsto order characte is very well adapted to probe the hear ani carry delight de-light t j the soul of the young girl who reads it as the sentiment of her bashful beaa We hope every pretty girl will get a pretty valentine on Tuesday and suggest to the boys that they can make their ladyloves hearts glad this year at moderate expense But there ought to be a law against the other style of valentines valen-tines hich may b3 called villainous They have nothing except vulgarity to recommend them and nob jay but the vulgar would send one of them on its insulting I sulting and abusive errand It is a vulgar instinct that suggests the act The inventor of the these cheap daubs was a wicked wretch and he has many partners in iniquity in-iquity Itought to be made unlawful unlaw-ful to trade in these scandalous valentines val-entines for no one buys one who does not intend to convey an insult or vent a cents worth of spite against somebOdy The publishers of the daubs are enemies to society and the purchasers of tham are little better If there were even humor I in them one could strain a point and smile at the joke but as there is nothing except downright vulgarity and maliciousness in the things they ought to be prohibited The publishers of the beautiful and artistic ar-tistic valentines are entitled to the thanks of the people but those who issue the vile wood cuts with their execreble and abusive rhymes deserve de-serve only thecontempt of persons who claim to be decent |