Show pretty cust custom m in colonial days in this 0 country the day was nas nui nul called st valen tines but it as observed people made mado dainty little baskets filled them thern with the earliest of spring flowers like tho the trailing arbutus and hung them on doorknobs door knobs or bell pulls in the old engravings which are found in the grea greatest profusion around richmond va and philadelphia one can often see the little maid of that time in a scoop bonnet a flowered muslin and demure little black mitts lipping slipping up to the old door with lie its knocker and wide door doo seat Meat to hang the little basket of flowra flowen for bome friend |