Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
BESSIE'S VALENTINE.


Bessie Dale. ''I s'pose nobody will think
to send lae one cause Pm SO poor; rich
girls get everything NICE
''Then why don't you see that at least
one poor girl gets Il valentine!' asked
Mrs. Dale.
"Me, mamma. Howl
Suppose you send valentine to the
poorest girl you know"
"That would be Hannah White. She's
awful poor. and no mistake; her toes came
right through her shoes the last time 1
saw her; but don't see how could send
a valentine, l haven't "a cent, you know
yourself, mamma, dear"
snake valentine, child, if you have
no money to buy one with; can't you
think of any other little girl whom this
St. Valentine is likely to neglect?'
"Why there's Grace Warren, Mrs. War
ren's little lame girl; I'm sure the post
man won't 90 Enear her the whole day.
But the idea OF making valentine, that's
Ridiculous:
Mrs. Dale looked smiley" as Bessie
would say, and went out of the room.
Pretty soon she came back with two
sheets of pink paper, prettily embossed,
and her big scrap-book.
Bessie watched with wlde-open eyes,
for that pink paper was her delight, and
she had often wished that mamma would
give her some of it.
"Now get some foolscap." said Mrs.
Dale, and copy the poems that find for
you. When you have practised till you
can copy them neatly, I will give you the
/ pink paper, and you can make your
valentines"
"But [ can't write
! "You can print the words, ard that
will be all the better. The children will
know that the valentines came from a
child. 1t Will make them happy to know
| that some child thinks Of them.
So the poems were found IN the scrap
book, and Bessie went to work in earnest.
1t was two or three days before she could
make the verses look we'll enough to be
copied upon the pretty pink sheets. At
last the valentines were done, and this is
the way they read.
The first was to Hannah White, the
girl whose toes were out Of her shoes.
See if you do not think it was suitable:
My little love is poor
As poor can be;
Her dress is torn and worn,
What's that to me?
Her tiny toes peep from
Her ragged shoe;
But what sweet soul fills
Her eyes OF blue.
My little love is good
AS good can be;
Her heart is pure, and that
Is much to me;
Aud so chose her from
The rich and fine,
And gladly sign myself
Her Valentine.
The next was for the little lame girl:
saw little body
Creeping on the ground,
ScOrned and forgotten
By all the world around.
This brown little body
Was strangely changed one day
God gave it wings of glory,
1t rose and flew away.
Ali tired little bodies,
Take this thought to heart;
The body is the wrapping,
And not the nobler part
Though scorned and forgotten
1t will be changed some day,
And on its wings of glory
Will rise and fly away.
Just as Bessie was printing the last
words of her second valentine, Capt Fred
came in to get Mrs. Dale to
do some mending for him. Capt. Fred
was a retired military man, with lose
chan e in his pocket. He looked at the
valentines and whistied little. Then
he inquired about the lame girl and about
the little toes that were peeping out of
somebody's shoes, as if to see what was
| going on in the world.
On st. valentines day the postman
was very busy. 1.-TWO valentines tor you.'
he said, as he stopped at Hannah Whites
door. And one IS mighty big one"
o how surprised little Hannah was! You
will easily guess that the big valentine
was pair of shoes, and that Capt. Fred
sent them. But the pretty printed verses
es did her almost as much good as
the shoes; indeed, I think they were
more valuable; for the shoes wore out;
but she remembered the verses as long
as she lived.
And the postman did not forget little
lame Grace Warren. He carried her,
beside the pink valentine, lovely, love
lv book of stories. And did Bessie Dale
get nothing? you ask. O yes: Capt. Fred
sent her a magnificent valentine, one OF
the daIntiest to be found; and she is so
proud Of it that she shows It &c this Gay.
So it often happens il this world that a
great deal Of good flows from Il little act
OF kindness just is Il beautiful, blossom
ing plant comes from little humble
seed.
| The Gazette de France gives list OF
the coolest winters which have been ex-
perienced in France since the fifteenth
century. The winter ct 140S was the
'.great winter" in which nearly ali the
bridges in Paris were swept away by the
ice. In 1890 thousands persisted by cold
in the Capital OF France, as well as in the
outlying districts, and wild beasts de-
voured human corpscs N the streets of
Paris In 1907 the harbor of Marseiiles
was frozen up. In 1914 frozen VINE was
broken up with the ak and sold by the
pound in Paris. In 1907 cattle persisted
| r. r.