Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-13

Prlce, Sl.5U.
On the other hand, If it is a matured case of
affection, one that has withstood the shock Of Of
| least three lovers quarrels and has lasted I'M
impaired through a summers vacation and
part of the Washington social season. some
thing little richer is appropriate, and box
Of roses. sprinkled with lilies of the valley, is
! suggested.
Price, $3.50 to $15.
If it is your wife-a trip to the thsater and q
bit of supper afterward.
Price. lowest estimate, s3. cor course. after
you are married you get seats in the dress
circle.
Now-and this Is between ourselves-if the
foregoing figures are out of reach at this time,
owing to circumstances over which you have
nocontrol, &c, your only recourse is to poetry
to indlte to your love sonnet The following
Is suggested as sample Of the sentiments
which may be expressed:
oh little Iovelest lady mine.
, What shall send for your valentinef
summer and flowers are far away,
Buds will not blow and sun viii not shins,
What shall do for a valentine!
I've searched the gardens all through and through
For bud to tell of my love so true;
And the falling snow ca:ne down on my head.
30; little loveilest lady mine.
here Is my heart for your vaenttnel"
OF course there may follow q slight embar-
rassment from the line which says, ''Tve
searched the gardens all through and through"
as it is a question whether the lady may or may
not intimate that you might have tried the
florist.
NOT GREAT VARIETY OF STYLES.
The Washington book stores are not carrying
very heavy stocks or a varied assortment Of
valentines this year. A few gorgeous struc-
lures Of paper and satin, with verses reeking
with sentiment, may be found and there are
always on hand the orthodox little valentines
OF German make, the perforated paper ones
with joyous-looking pictures OF boys and girls
and uudressed Cupids.
But the comic valentine is here in force. 1t
will not be denied that these vexatious little
cartoons, with lines which bear always little
point--just enough to sting-will form the
bulk Of the valentine freight which will burden
the mails. Who does not dread to find one of
these hbels upon the breakfast table, the gift
OF some precocious juvenile? OF course it is O
feeble joke; you cannot take umbrage at it. so
what forced and pass the screed around for
the boarders and the family to read. They all
laugh at the SILLY joke and inwardly chuckle at
the sly dig which is made ct some foible Of
yours OF which you and they are aware.
VALENTINE POETRY.
The character OF the lines which accompany
the comic valentines is q study. Usually they
are Of q rancorous nature. They would seem
to have been written by some embryonic poet
appreciated by an unfeeling world, and whose
supply Of the milk of human kindness had been
considerably curdled thereby, rendering him
bitter toward his race, SO that he takes his re-
yenge in cartooning his fellow men.
The style Of verse. viewed from q literary
standpoint is something to marvel at. With
that fearlessness which is only born of the
genius required to write verses for valentines
he ignores the rules which timid writer's per-
nit to control their efforts and trips lightly
from Iambic to Spondaic in the same line, from
Dactylic to Trochaic, and Dimeter blends with
Hexameter in the same breath.
No pent-up Utica of expression is his, for
stately Alexandrine and dainty willamette alike
make up one verse, while Triolet and Rondeau
merge rapidly into Petrarchian sonnet in the
next
SOME CHOICE THEMES.
choice theme for the caricaturists IL the
doctor. Hear how the graceless scrubbsr adj
dresses the family physician:
for your knowledge OF p6ysIc, A-1u '-'A' -no -
You wouldn't know corn on the toe from desperate
Your syar pills certain to KILL and for your lotions
They mae the sick the worse empty the purse. and
The right thing to DO g Ees rid Of you. and end all
Is to break the back Of such old Quack by making
him take bis own pills.
1t is possible that the present activity in Dis
lowing ode to a politician:
And try hard to is with bunEum and bia1;
But All that you're after is the public crib
lou can stun ballot boxes or pack caucus
BIT Into believing honest could talk M
The woes of the down-trodden working girl
are favorite subject. The picture represents
the unfortunate creature toiling in her parret
by candle light while the mean EMPLOYER. who
stands smiling beside his money bags, il thus
addressed:
Hard-hearted. mean. unfeeing wretch
Whose only thought is for YOURSELF
And how you may, by any means.
Increase your pile OF ill-got pelf;
Do not think that you'll escape
The punishment which our greed doservea
Lternai Justice may slowly move,
but from its aim it never swerves,
This soulful song underneath the sign of the
great house Of Hubbard would seem to be the
vibrations OF chord Of sympathy which had
been struck:
When We see you about without oyercoat on
We've no trouble IN guessing at where 1t has gone:
toF wnie fdas9n ~ scar that Rswn1roksr's sign
A CHASTITY warning to the sporting fraternity
OF Jackson City is furnished in the picture of n
gambler hanging to limb, while underneath ia
pinned:
You don't deserve q better fate,
hope you'll meet il soon late!
For you'd be iet not the slightest grfef
You heartless, worthless. knavish thiGfl
All would say that the herapen moose
Had never been put to better use.
TIE PUNsrER IN HIS xLExrNr