Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-13

was either single or looped, and was
of bright crimson, blue or pink, OF
mixed blue and white or shaded pink.
The fringe certainly was very attrae-
tive setting to the designs. Then
there were valentines called banner
cts, on which were painted landscape
scenes with appropriate descriptions,
aud those were intended to be hung,
like banners, from brass stand made
to hold them. The aesthetic valentines.
dealing entirely in flowers, and all with
the prevailing border of silk fringe,
we're very pretty. Some were made OF
two cards hinged together and opening
and closing. The flowers were ex-
quisitely done, and under meath one of
them appeared;
Good morrow, Valentine.
Fairest maid, o, be mine,
Saint Valentine is herel
Smile on me, maiden, dear.
Another displayed a bow Of pink
and bow Of yellow ribbon wreathed
in gentran, and in a corner the verse:
As through the world wend my way
And many changes see.
Twill cheer my heart to know each day
That you remember me.
On one of those folding double
cards we're two female figures in cos
tune, the details of the dresses being
done with much fidelity. At the bot
tom OF one card was inscribed, with
the sender's love-" at the bottom of
the other, Guess who sends this.
A cunning little card was that rep
resentiug two little people, man and
woman, dressed in Queen Anne fash
ion, smoking cigarettes, and the verse:
Dear maid such pleasures dwell about thee.
Chi who could livn and love without thee?
Real pansies fastened to a fringe
berdered folding card constituted
valentine with the verse:
Sumptueus velvet papsies,
Royal in purple and gold
Glowing and rare to behold,
Bright as q maiden's fancies,
send to thee.
On another was painting of clus-
ter of flowers, composed of lilies of
the valley. purple lilac, ferns and vio-
lets, and underneath:
Love begets love
So it is said,
For mine thou give nae
Thine instead.
Aud still another displayed clus-
ter Of daisies, buttercups and prim-
roses, and at the margin the lines:
Love has language
Hid from view.
In these fair flowers
1t speaks to you.
A valentine representing a lover
serenading his sweetheart in a bower
profusely covered with flowers is in
scribed:
love my love in the morning,
love my love 1T noon,
For she is bright
As the ford at night,
Yet mild as autumn's moon,
Among the amusing cards was a
series representing the humors Of di-
minutive darby boys and girls, drawn
and painted in a comical manner. One
little darby is carrying a baby, aud
the inscription is, From one Of a
loving and domestic disposition"
A second represents small
darby boys head stuck and complete
" lost within a small darby girls coal
scuttle bonnet, and the words: "Ol
that We might be like these"
A third shows little swell couple
Of darkies walking down Broadway:
Two souls with but single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Among the five cent comic valen-
tines is one that must have a big sale
among young men about town anxious
to send it TO their friends. 1t repre-
sents a nice young man in a striped
Sing Sing prison suit fastened with a
ball and chain, and the following:
That uniform. striped like great tiger 81 in,
Is not the right stripe for man to get in.