Show MANY VALENTINES V ALEN INES FOR ROOSEVELT f J I I. I f President Certain to Receive Numerous Tokens Most of Them Comic Cowic C Quite a lot of valentines reach the White House by mall mail at this season every year There are always a good many pea people pIe scattered over aver the country who are anxious to take advantage of any excuse tor for writing to the President and and the the festival of the patron saint of ot lovers affords such an opportunity Thus It comes about that remembrances of ot the kind pour pour In when In-when when the of February February Feb Feb- arrives most of them sad to re relate relate relate re- re late being of ot a comic rather than of a sentimental description Any sentimental valentines that are delivered at the Executive mansion are arc usually addressed to the ladles ladies of ot the Presidents President's family Doubtless Miss Alice Roosevelt will get some handsome ones appropriately ornamented with hearts and cupids But Dut tributes of this kind sent to her father will be mainly humorous humor humor- ous and will wiil represent a retail value of 1 cent apiece The senders of these missives as a 0 arule arule rule believe that the President will personally personally per per- serially open them and If they are In Intended Intended intended In- In tended to wound his feelings that he will personally grieve over the slurs they cast Presumably In some cases they obtain gre great at satisfaction from tram dispatchIng dispatching dis dis- patching such anonymous cartoons with their accompanying derisive verses But Dut unhappily for their alms aims the Chief Magistrate never sees any communications I of ot the sort all of ot which are opened by a clerk cleric and promptly consigned to the waste basket save only a few tew notable notable notable no no- table ones that are deemed worthy of ot being put on file as curiosities Most Host Comics Are Playful However It Is only the rare and exceptional exceptional exceptional ex ex- ex- ex Presidential valentine that Is In any way malicious Of or course every President of the United States has enemies ene one mies a sales a rule to which Mr Roosevelt is no exception exception and and now and then a disgruntled dis dis- dis or some person who has been put out of a job in the Government employ considers that he heis heis is entitled to nurse a grudge against the occupant of the White House Such individuals may occasionally resort to the expedient of ot sending a penny valentine valentine valentine val val- entine of ot an Insulting character as a means of venting their spleen But Dut nearly always the valentines are merely playful It may be said in a general way that the comic valentine sent to various Presidents have reflected the aspects of Jf each Pr President which have aroused crit It For example Chester A. A Arthur c H who was a bon boa vl ant and always dressed well veli was regarded as a a. fop by many people 11 who ho did not happen to admire admire admire ad ad- mire him Consequently Consequently-at at all ev events such is the recollection preserved at the White House the House the valentines addressed to him represented most extravagant dudes ducks Doubtless they would have amused him greatly If It he had had a chance to see them Send Original Doggerel This leads naturally to a a. consideration of Presidential valentines of ot a certain class class necessarily necessarily the most interesting ones whIch ones which owe their authorship to those who send them During Benjamin Harrisons Harrison's administration was received a mild one of this kind which read Little Benny Denny t i I Have Havo you any Office y yu u can send me If not sonny Ready money t 1 You may kindly lend me P. P S.-DO S. It quickly Baby Mine And n I I wilt will ll be you laPe Valentine alentine Many of ot Mr Ir Harrisons Harrison's valentines had reference to the grandfathers grandfather's hat hatin hatin hatm in m one way or another It Is always some personal attribute or characteristic that conveys s 's inspiration In such matters Reflected on Cleveland's O Obesity While Mr Cleveland was' was in the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse Whitehouse House practically all the valentines re received received received re- re represented enormously fat men That was too obvious trait io to o escape attention One of ot them bore the following inscription and on account of ot the originality of the verses has been preserved t tI I 1 pray ray you ou tell ten me gentle Grover Why are you U always bubbling I over With nh vanity aa and ai self f r I I tt t think you get f too much to eat If t you would g f only ol try starvation It might be better belter for the nation nallon This was only a part of the poem There were a a. dozen other stanzas Plenty of such shafts of oC wit with accompanying accompanying accompanying ac ac- ac- ac companying cartoons In bright will be mailed this week at a cost of a penny apiece to President Roosevelt In Inmost inmost most of them presumably he will figure as a comic soldier but he Is gifted by hy nature with a a. keen sense of ot humor and he would not mind such playful assaults a a. particle if they were brought to his notice |