| Show UM KEEPS UP OF THIRTY YEARS big valentines lalen Nalen tines and little valentines fat valentines dalec and thin valentines white valentines and red Nalen valentines tines cheap modest little valentines and proud and costly valentines every old kind of valentine dangled from shelves and lay heaped on counters while a half dozen clerks were busy attending to the rush of st valentine valentines s day there was the oica 0 arg man with one hand on money in his pocket buying a white 1 25 Na valentine lentine with eyes riveted on a red 3 creation clearly he wish ed he be could afford the red in a cor ner looking ineasy were two young women discussing animatedly a heap of pini and blue valentines unnoticed by the crowd inside the shop a coach drew up to the curb it vas was a most pretentious turnout with coachman and footman in livery with a pair of restless bays and with shining harness mounted heavily with glistening silver the footman jumped to the sidewalk as quid ly as his tight fitting bicksl in breeches per and opened the coach door an old man a very old man alighted and asting on his cane made for the front door of the valer valentine tine shop none noticed the newcomer every ore was busy with his own affairs bu the owner of the shop aw caw the customer greeted him pleasantly and led mm dim to a chair A valentine the old man wanted the proprietor seemed to know his man A white satin box long and wide was produced and within lay what was ras likely the most gorgeous valentine ever sent in new aorl it was ras brilliant crimson gold mounted and in the centre of the pillow in 0 I 1 ras as a landscape an emblem and an inscription which the writer from afar could not make out evidently the old cuc customer tomer was pleased for some minutes he gazed at the costly piece then closed the box smiled approval and ifft the shop followed by a clerk car crying the box to the coach what does an old fogy like that ao with a valentine 9 was ed the proprietor did not take kindly to the question that old fogy has been coming here ever since I 1 opened this store thirty years ago the old fogy is one of the tie wealthiest men in this city the old fogy regularly orders h a val valna nt ne taree months abea I 1 of tine time and pas as much for them as s many a ban haul clerk earns in a month morth and when a woman has lived faithfully for thirty bears ears beside a man the old fog thinks she s en titled at least to one valentine a year and the questioner knew he had touched a sore spot of the old fogy friend new york press at |
