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Show L THE INVENTOR OF VALENTINES. i Hew England Spinster Who First Cut Fancy Paper Heartl. 1i' Mlsa Kslher llowl.nd of Worcester. I'asa., invented the modern valentine L 119. bhe never married, and died out ten year bko. She w a adnata of Mount Hojynke aemlnary, nd her father had a small book atore d bindery. Wlshlrg to add a new attire of the business, she took iff letter paper. scalloped and fringed i0 edges, cut heart ahaped holes In io comers, glued on colored plrttirea i at came with raisins, tea, etc., put round the pictures border of the Jv piper that waa used on the In-I In-I ile edge of fancy boxes, and haod-Jilnled haod-Jilnled a little verse on them. TH ientlncs found a ready sain; bnal-pes bnal-pes men In Now York and elsewhere began to order them for the next year, and It soon appeared that Miss How laud had developed a real business. |