The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-12
ST. VALENTINE.

spectable sort OF IL saint. and the
love messages sent out in his name
were also respectable. The saint
himself may have retained through
all these ages his original character,
and still be, as Guiteau would re-
mark, a high-toned person, as the
patron of lovers and lovemaking
ought TO be; bat if lie should return
to earth and spend week during
his anniversary time, how his old
heart would bleed over the mis-
chief done in his name. The
first thing he would do, after
recovering from his grief, would
be to call upon tie duly
elected and certifcated authori-
ties to destroy all the villalnous
valentines of the twO-for-a-cent va
riety; and should the officers need
assistance in executing the task, the
decent portion of the community
would at once resolve itself into a
posse cOmnlitGtltS for helping TO
carry the decree into effect. a
proper valentine is a pretty thing.
Cranky bachelors may find fault
with it on the ground that it is
spoony and soft, particularly as to
the little rhyme intended TO convey
sentiments Of affection. This
sOftness is not an offense
at such time nor in the
matter. Love-making is in itself
soft and spoony. Nature seems to
have ordained that it should be so.
Poetic expressions Of amatory senti-
ment are Us ialy lame and imper-
feet, W neither they are sent as valen-
tines or go as misSives at any sea-
son of the year. But these valen-
tines are pretty and proper, and no
doubt any lady is delighted when
she receives them. Art as well as
the muse, have beth contributed to
make them all that an intelligent
girl could expect or desire in the
way Of beauty or rhyme. There
are also STYLES and prices to
suit every taste and pocket.
Then all sizes and shapes and
designs-big, little. plain, speckled,
frilled, fringed, aesthetic and other
wise. And the poetry, though
limping and no. OF the made-tO
order characte:c, is very well adapted
to probe the hear and carry de-
light to the soul Of the young girl
who reads it as the sentiment Of her
bashful beaa. We hope every
pretty girl will get pretty valentine
on Tuesday, and suggest to the boys
that they can make their lady-loves'
hearts glad this year at moderate
expense.
But there ought to be law
against the other style of valen-
tines, which may be called
villainous. They have nothing
except vulgarity to recommend
them, and nobody but the vulgar
would send one of them on its in
sulting and abusive GRAND. 1t is a
vulgar instinct that suggests the
act. The inventor of the these
cheap daubS was a wicked wretch
and he has many partners in in
iquity. thought to be made unlaw-
full to trade in these scandalous val
entines, for no one buys one who
does not intend to convey an insult,
or vent a cents worth of spite
against somebody. The publishers
of the daubs are enemies to society,
and the purchasers of than are little
better. If there Werekeven humor
in them, one could strain a point
and smile at the joke, but as there is
nothing except downright vulgarity
and righteousness in the things,
they ought to be prohibited. The
publishers of the beautiful and ar
tistic valentines are entitled to the
thanks of the people, but those who
issue the vile wood cuts, with their
execreble and abusive rhymes, de-
serve only the contempt Of persons
who claim to be decent.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.