Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-19
sr. VALENTINES DAY.
Some Of HIS EpistIcs that have Come
10 the Graphic Onice.


fury has completely gone out OF the da =.
and even the SupeTstitiOns which were gen
orally entertained as late as the time OF the
Stuarts core 7rnirg love affairs predicted Oy
choice or chance on February ~, seem to
have ceased altogether. Fun, burlesque and
derision lave taken The place of religious
Only a couple of hundred years ago a
o CAV 'O '"-'N '"e 20"
Last ya'tniiue, the day v hen birds OF KIM
Ih.lr famous .ith mutual ehirptr IS I'm {,
Bst3rs ,hs sna had sha-ed tire stars away;
Aneld SeBt. smid the m 1rntne dew.
TO milk my Kline (f.r should housewives d.
bee hrst sptd-sBd tbs rrst swain se ses,
In spite Of Torture, shall our true 10, Q b"
But now we have set our epithal amIum-
writer at work, ard be has turned off the fol-
lowing valentine for Professor TyniaII, the
noted scientist, who is about 10 be married
70 the dsughter OF Lord Claude Hamilton,
and who is supposed u have become poeti-
cal, and sent IL 70 his loved one:
PROFESSOR TyHDALL's VALENTINE.
From sdsptstion aud inheritance,
M love, We all our p1rer. d derive;
And now evn scientists are called to wiye.
Ton are, I know, mere coDglomeration
OF mssi d nue. and 1rstoplssmic cells;
Your hair Of kerstin, your eyes OF water;
But for that matter - are ali our bellies.
In all the mighty struggle for existence,
From the monera 20 the form of man,
Your lioe and mine have proved the strongest,
NV W ~csis hdoN ~ ID cob pltus
hear, or seem 20 hear with ears turned backward
Your sacest II = million times removed
sIng his sEe5t notes; see him Drink his feathers
T1woo my bird tOren'thsr, dearly loved.
know qu drursds they rosmed together
And brOgsef upon some old primOTdi 81 hid,
And that a. fishes of they SWAN ogether
Fin touching M, IN some sweet hmpid ril.
And once, heterogeneous cJnp1unds OF carbon
They loiiered side ~ side, Unconscious cells,
AZ prOta br or prOtOGsaes,
As protomy Az OF as yampyrells.
For thus, nv dear, say Huxley and Ernst Has,kal.
,Lsmarck foi e-has td IT and 50 Gid oxen.
TN ozy Be bowed, and cuss all preachers,
1Ley sll are bigOts-msy their Jaws be broksnD
That this Cell structure esiIed Professor TypdsII
should have general NJ otiOn ana a T.HdSa-
Towards you' that long have mads it pine ard
SIX pounds Of carbon and ten pounds Of water
From this strong frame BY waste Of tissue gone
In one poor month, because you spurned my WOO
You naughty child of Lord Claude amlItoa!
But now, my Iuminiferous ether love,
Inc cells have All moved in the right direction;
lou mine, b. laws Of natural selection JD.
But valentine may 60 astray In this care
less age; then look out! One ofour lady con-
trlbutors hints at its perlls thus:
STRAY VALENTINE.
The little maiden stole look,
NV Up the street, now down,
And from the window turned away
ldsy she waited patsntly
For something to occur,
BIZ, though the pos:man came, he brought
NO Wartime Tor her.
She thought ii strange; she meant to sc,ld
That horTid jack f1r Cheating her
Ofsueh exquisite Joy.
be might have Known irwould please her wall
BY So ding her . valentine
On this suspicious day.
But bah the postman'a knock, and nov
The maiden stsTes. her glance l. wild,
che N arm urs, - hat Is this"
comic valentine, forsOoth
Ard though the writer's nAne
Il mere seeh, she seems to AnOS
VI guess from Ehence ii came.
when Jack arrived a later hour,
he net 8 gIsLce thar landed him
On Nova Lsmbla's isle.
hst !, the sitter, Mabel, dear?
Ira, valentine Why, that. the one
thought sent next door ~
20 stupid Jack your careless deed
Amsiden' : heart has rent,
Elsewhere bdoring went ~
Nay, ISABEL, dear come, for those frowns
sweet reparatiCH mase.
NSr take aniss what have proved
st.Nalentine's mistake. BOs-Boy.
The most famous sensational novelist OF
the world tries her hand at 1T, and reveals
s me OF the intensity which her stories show:
AEAhl ID A VALENTINE
KISS n c BRADDoN.
When spring 6Tst violet on the yale
her tender perfume hings,
When, eeep IN sine seqQsster'd vale,
The thrush his lsve tale sings;
When al bright things Of earth and sky
In hymns OF praise Combine
One song, one pray r, alone breath i:
Sweet love, wilt thou be nine:"
When from the woodland Still and lous.
Through tie long summer night,
Sod PhiiS mel's i'm passiOned tone
Thrills with love dee delight.
When, steepd in bslmiest breath Of June,
he earth seem, half divine.
But sing "Wilt thou be miner
when sutunn's red and sqtumn's gold
Paint wood and void and hill;
W hen winter nighu grow drear and cold,
Love, sm ehsnseless STILL,
Loves calendar and mine
marx summer still In sun and shade,
And still my heart is thine.
We close the tributes 70 the patron saint
OF this day with salutation concerning
Dottie's ice breaking:
DOTTIE's VALENTINE
Past the farm and down the dell
Lctiie and her pitcher 60,
Needless that the woodland we'll
Will be hard With ice and snow.
Dottie's face is fair 10 see,
DOttie eye % brightly shine;
Nv no could stay at home says she,
"Hsying ne Ter yalentiae,'
Dottie, all the way, is bleak,
Cold and chill the morning sir;
Frozen is the we'll You seek,
Vain your journey, DOttie fair.
Dottie face is bright 10 see,
DOttie cries, With eyes sshins,
be who breaks the ice for ne.
DE shall be my valentine
He a,d she stood by the stream
Gazing, lost and mute, above;
R, 5heS ,s stated re III Iron their Dream
pottie's face Is bright to see,
DOttie eyes fOudiy shine
BE y no breaks TIE ice with me,
be shall be MY valentine"