Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-07 | Page 8 | St. Valentine Day in Cupid's Realm

ST SI VALENTINE BAYS DAY BAY IN CUPIDS CUPID'S REALM S Small Boy Awaits An Opportunity of Getting Even Some Some Specimens of the Verses Here are two specimens of valentine poetry ta taken en at random from the stock of comics in local stores 4 MUSIC TEACHER f f t 4 IThan v I Youve You've no more music in you 1 Than has a screeching loon You cannot tell a a sharp Marp from flat 4 Nor keep the simplest tune tune 4 You Tou thu thump p away upon the keys 4 And Anti raise a noisy din But those whom you pr pretend t nd to teach 7 t o tAre Are re badly taken in 1 I t I 5 A POLITICAL SCAMP 4 You'd pose as a a statesman y you u swaggering tough I I i And try hard to awe us us' us with bunkum bunkum and bluff bluff I 4 44 4 Of Ot political principles you talk talk quite glib But all that youre youre you're aft after r is is' is the P Public Crib Crib You can stuff boxes ballot or pack a caucus But Into believing you honest you yot never could talk us 4 4 Where Is the small boy who docs does not I hall hail the thc a approach of St. St Valentines Valentine's day dayas dayas dayas as affording him the opportunity of or getting getting get ting Uns even en with some some one against whom he bears a a. grudge L Discussing the day and its observance A A. R. R of the Derge Book company compan said today I 1 cannot see that there is any allY marked growth of sentiment against the comicI comic valentines Our sales In this line have I I grown crown steadily for ten years ears and this I year vear we will sell over gross of them During tho the past few years however the I class of buyers of ot these goods has changed Formerly nearly every everyone one used them to some sOne extent now children are i almost the only purchasers They send and receive them good and I seem seem to appreciate the tho poetry they con coi tam tain Now and then some older person picks o out a particularly a n u bad one lr g J direct intention of wounding feelings of another er but In the main they serve servo only the purpose of honest fun The day of or the very high and gaudy a valentine is past Time was when huge affairs of celluloid and gauze ran rapidly Into big money but they are rarely rarely rarely rare rare- ly called for now The cheap lace valentine valentine valentine valen valen- tine Is also practically a thing of the past Gifts for the day are now taking the form of artistic calendars books of or poems and small neat cards Some of the priced high-priced valentines In vogue a few years ago were artistic nightmares nightmares nightmares night night- mares that would make the finest room look leok cheap but the public no longer buys t them The e poetry of ot the comic valentines is indeed fearfully and wonderfully made