Show Hel Vale IIi By THOMAS A CLARK I De Dean n of ot Men lien University of ot Illinois The envelope eD all nil beautifully em- em em bossed embossed In flowers and butterflies and chubby round cupids was lying on my desk when at the ringing of the last thelast bell I slipped Into my seat sent In the grade room Site She had hud already come In and ond her little curly brown head bead was just showing above the top of her geography but In spite of the fact that site she seemed so interested In study I felt that she was as watching me The Tue package was not sealed scaled so un on nn- nn der under cover coer of tile the desk I drew out the valentine It was crinkly and lacy and very beautiful In my felt a n thrill of ot happiness ns OS I held It in hand I my Within there were verses and they breathed of lender tender tenderness ness and love On one corner lest I should be In doubt as to the Identity ot of the be sender Bender were wele printed the Ini Initials tat tat- It M 11 B TI All morning morn Ing I was happy a as I stole shy glances Into Inlo the envelope and read the printed words j In the evening I Iwas Iwas was happier still as I walked home hom With atthe her j and I am happy today at the memory of It all We arc are strangely restrained and un- un unapprecIative un apprecIative and unsentimental most of us If It we love e anyone It takes talles a tragedy or a n cataclysm to get a state state- statement statement ment out of us us We expect our friends or the members of ot our family to guess uess how we feel fed eel without our saying so Dont you like my ray dinner a house house- housewife housewife housewife wife asked her husband Well didI did didI I kick was his Ids tender appreciative response One learns to know that things are satisfactory If no one makes objection I saw a n man mar mar- married married ried ned for Cor ten years taking a bunch ot of violets home to his wife wile on Valentine day and It gave ga me a Sl sensation It was so BO unusual I Does anyone ever er tell the minister when he preaches a good sermon sermon When someone helps you or gives you courage or stimulates you to effort do you rou let him know or do you take for granted that he will understand 1 Have you ever told mother what a aI avoid avoid I I ItI void old there would be In the world It if she were gone If It anyone these days loves his teacher as we were In Instructed In- In Instructed instructed to do does he ever er say so soI I 1 Imagine not nil all of these things would seem too sentimental It Is so much easier casler to send flowers to the funeral or to subscribe to the memorial fund than to write the note of appreciation or to utter the word of love or to give Ive expression to thanks when those who have hn served us and sacrificed for tor us and made our lives joyful are themselves es still alive We dont don't often send the valentine I 1 found the little paper lace Ince affair with Its verses In my desk the other day treasured through all the vicissitudes vicissitudes tudes that have come come ome to me since I 1 Iwas Iwas was ten It Jt you love me meAs meAs As Aa I love you No knife can cut Our love In two It gave ave me pleasure all day to think at q It li f 9 1125 52 Western Newspaper Union hobo |