The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-13
I. ST. VALENTINES DAY.
HOW IT WAS AND WILL BE OBSERVED Love
AND SPLEEN FIND UTrERANCE.

poet and this article. Tho approach OIL THIS
has been marked by the appearance In the sta
tonery and toy shop windows Of valentines mostly Of
highly colored aud humorous nature, fastened to a
line by clothespns. Eager school children have
stretched their flexible almost out OF their lille
sockets read the lines underneath, and their merry
laughter has caused the busy passerby 70 turn his
face the shop and he has been reminded OF
the coming Jay. The comic valentines are IN the
ascendant, but still the sentimental maid or man can
be accommodated with verses that will Just SUIT their
cases
In the good old times OF which wo hear SO much
valentines Of more serious nature than they
arc to-day. They meant business. The painted,
belaced, betnseed article "f to-day was unheard o.
If young man sent valentino through the post II
was serious declaration Of love or oner Of marriage
10 the object OF his affections On Valentines Day, as
far back as the time dear old gossippng Pepys
wrote his diary, parties OF young people would meet
together and each write little billet which they
would roll up draw by lots, the maids taking the
men's billets aud the mon the maids, SO That
each young would light upon girl
whom he called his valentine and each Of
the girls upon young man that she called
hers Sometimes this little pleasantly would end In
genuine attach ments aud result in matrmony. IL
used TO believed that the FIRST unmarried person OF
the other sex met in walking abroad on the
18th OF February would bc the future husband or the
iuure wife. Many people believed aud still believe
that the BIRDS choose their maos on Vaientnes Day;
and II BIRDS, why not mon
You ali remember HamieLs imprisoned valentine
to 1.-The celestial. and my souls du me most beautl.
lur' Opnea, Tor 80 iako IL 10 be- and as suoh IT
has boon used Tor many generations-
Doubt thou tho stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun eotsmove
snt never doubt love
How many schoolboys havo penned these lines in
rugged, blottea letters 10 girls IN curs aud sun bon
nets ono Inclined to think that the day Is NOT ON
the decline, dealer and man uiacturer, whose
father Introduced the trade IN this country forty
years ago, ana ~ho has himself been IN the business
some fifteen years, says that he mover sold SO many
valentines he has This year. One can READILY be-
iieve this statement Including comic and sentiment
tal he has sold 3 900 COO already. the prices Of val
entines range from one cent TO $25 The former may
be como sentimental, but tho comic one-cent val
entne is the must IN demand. There Is also COMIC
somewhat larger, sold tor two cents. The amorous
swan Will hnd no difficulty in finding motto 20 SUIT
MS complaint, Tor they be had III words Of con-
stancv friendship or burning love- in all styles to
SUIT the pocket as well As the neart.
BOUQUET VALENTINE
novelty introduced inns year, from France, is the
bouquet valcntne--a bunch OF tasteluliy arranged
flowers vi0.es, or roses with an edging OF ace-the
whole secured upon neatly turned handle. But this
Is not ALI The bouquet, by lifting string, turns
over aud reveals modest cupid, hiding behind ieah
ers and tinsel all those little odds aud
ends that go 10 make up real valentine lnese oncr
ings the shrine of Hymcn cost IRON 81 TO So
glass padded and embr rendered. That contains the
painted structure, WITH ITS appropriate motto, but
which De lifted out ana inc box converted into
jewel These from $40 10 $25. such elegance
VIII tor tho whose purse Is AS large as his afcc
uons but the OF Inc economical lover has 70 DO
met anu u IL bouneously ~ prices ranging from hve
dollar
Win futlerins heart Jane will hasten to meet tho
posIman W. morrow take from his eeiing hands
an envelope containing httle card OF lace paper
mounted GU PINK background, and inside the words
Loves wish, and then tnese lines. printed IN gold
u red Leaf
Could L. dear maid, within thy mind.
Ore vacant corner lind.
oh, 1t would he my sweetest care
10 write my name forever there.
With trembling fingers Jane thrusts this declaration
into her BOSOM ana ner mistress wonders, when sho
red aud her eyes SO bright. Who writes the verses
Tor these valentines It would be hard TO tell They
are about same every year, only they are dinor
emily mounted Here OF the favorites that has
floating around the country tor many years. 1t Is
called 'Trrth:'-
True AS a needle to the pole.
Or us II dial to the sun.
Constant ms gliding waters roll.
Whose swelling tides obey the moon;
From other oharmer tree
Here is another The recipient OF which could not
doubt its import Tor u moment. IL is printed on pale
PINK and encirced by u border OF gcid:-
Oh. lady there be any things
That seem right fair above,
But sure nut one among them all
Is hat SWEET as love;
Let us not pay our vows alone,
but join two affairs into one.
Altar is speed with an sc, but that does not alter
the sentiment Another represents cupid Ia clothes
delivering billet Tho accompanying Is the verse;
Thinks't that could be
From thee and learn ~ haive my heart?
The hour that tears my soul from thee
PERSONAL ALLUsoNs.
Then como the comics. VINO does write the insane
verses that accompany comic valentinesY Svme
think IL unwse 10 send comics, for they moth
ing but insult ia them. For example, the old beau
comes down his Twelve O'Clock breakfast, sees
"some one c mas sent me a valentine With nervous
fingers he breaks the seal How his check pales un-
der lis rouge AS no reads:--
To please the girls you wish and strive.
And you succeed, Ills true.
For constant pleasure they derive
From ON. masimg nun A.. o. n; YOU. a.v
They say you're sixty ifa day"
ACCOMPANIED by highly colored picture Of maa
with no bair on the top OF h1s head SIN the place
where The hair ought to grow" but on tho table
stead, AMI set OF false teeth in his hand. Charley,
who brides himself upon the sweetness OF his tenor,
is enraged al the picture Of q man with mouth as
big as The moon, and tongue ike tomato and these
lincs:-
Music hath charms o soothe the mind
Untutored and savage indeed. is the mind
much ~ wa% i prefer sG the ding Ss SAWS '
or million oi crows with interminable caws
To the dscordant sounds that come from your jaws.
The "poet" takes poetic license with the quotation
forming tho first line.
Poor aunt Amelia, VINO never tells her love, Is con-
fronted with such lines as
All persons have hobbies TO which they incline;
Yours runs on TO the spoonest sentimental line;
You sleep with photograph clasped to your breast,
In order TO dream that you're heinz clressed
You'd make love to n boy or the shaowest loon.
And you often throw kisses to the man in the moon.
Aud SO goes; every ones weakness Is hit at Love
Is rldiou cd and hobb,es exposed. You have great
deal to answer Tor, old 1t. Vslentinel
MADAME RESTELL IN PRISON.
Nine, Restell, tho well known character who was
arrested the complaint of Mir. Comstock, OF tho
Society for the Suppression of Vice, spent yesterday
In the Tombs. bonds tor her appearance not having
been entered into. She was placed In cell the
second OF the female prison. Her costly silk dress
ana scalskin sacquo contrasled strangely with The
clothing OF those around her. and the other prisoners
stared IN nstonishmcnt at tho new conner AT ton
O'CLOCK yesterday morning her counsel, Mr. Mckinley,
arrived and had long ultation with her In tho
counsel room. Alter his departure she was recon-