The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-16
ST. VALENTINES DAY.
The Fate that liz I'm Store for
Old and Young.


To-day being the 18th of February
it is what is known as St. Valentines
day. and not a few will be greeted
with some mission through the post
Office, conveying in m inner the feel
ings of the sender. Some will be
handsome specimens of art, upon
which sweet nothings will be printed
and bring pretty bushes to fair misses
ch. eks. These will be sert by youth
full SWANS, who in this semi-anony-
mou- way wish to give expression to
the alteration which is bubbling up in
their tender hearts. and which they
cannot, or dare not, utter in the fair
ones presence.
Then, again, there will be received
by many, some of those hideous char
acters. which could have u en- seen
adjoining the windows of all the news
and stationery windows. This class
will be received from those who wish
to give expression Tin very silly
Way to their Ill feeling toward the
person it is designed for. his last
practice is as nOnsensical as it is con-
temptible. The reception of such
missives by some is looked upon by
the majority of people as beneath a
second thought, but there are others
whom it agrins greatly and deeply
hurts. For Instance if some antiquzt-
e'i ''young" lady, whuse age dates
way back in the hazy past, receives q
cartoon of lady supposed TO belong
to the antideluvian age, it makes her
weary at heart and signs for the palmy
days of youth when such a picture
would have beef inappropriate.
Then, agai", there is the old bach
elor who is on the down hill of life,
and who, neglecting in the days of
his youth, to provide himse with
somebody to run things round the
house-if such a person We say is
Sc one of these little nuisances,
depicting him as surly, bald-headed,
woe oegone, od-forsaken, dilapidated
relic of The past ages, it makes him
feel sad at heart and he marvels at
the cold-heartedness of the human
race. These things are deplorable,
but just allow your imagination TO
attempt to grasp, if possible, the har-
rowing feelings of the young man
whose best girl has gone back on him
when he receives one of these valen-
tines. Oh, the b tterness of thai
no r! The postman arrives and
hands q letter to the Tilted young
man. He scans the inscrip ion on the
envelope and recognizes the writing.
1t is from his lady friend, and as he
hastens to the privacy of his chamber
visions of sweet, endearing phrases
fit before him as he fondly imagines
that she has repented of her summary
dismissal of him, and that he has been
recalled into her blissful presence.
Gaining his room, he again scans
the address. Yes, it is from his dear
one and the pulsations of his heart
liner ase until he imagines there must
be buzz saw IN operatio somewhere
in the region of his stomach, or some
equally great commotion taking place.
With hands trembling as ifwith ague
he at last opens the envelope and
brings forth the conten 8 to find
what? The representation of sec
ond ward dude in city soup kitchen.
Imagine his feelings if you can, read
ers of the BAzoo; il is only you
who have been there that
can have any conception of what he
suffers. First he wants to lie down
and die, but that would be no salts
faction then he contenplates clubbing
himself; then asking some person to
please give him hundred or two
kicks, and finally ends it all by max
ing a desperate resolve to become a
heartless masher, wreaking wierd ven.
gence on the susceptible hearts of all
the fair maidens he meets.
Thus it is that the day once held
sacred to the joining Of hearts and the
exchange of loving messages has be
come desecrated and is the precursor
of narrowed feelings.