The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
ST. VALENTINES DAY.
1t Is Still Popular with the Sentimental
Points for the Practical

Washington Post.
Americans may be, and doubtless are,
a practical, busy people, but St Valen-
tine has managed to retain his hold on
their hearts. Valentines are as popular as
ever and dealers and manufacturer de-
clare that the making of valentines has
never been such a recognized industry as
it is to-day.
We are not limited to the old-fashioned
lace valentine such as your grandmother
can show you in its embossed and yellowed
envelope, although you may buy exactly
such a one, for the call for this style never
seems to grow less.
Perhaps the only valentine that is really
on the wane is the so-called Comic val
entine. which, however, is very funny, but
always vulgar.
Little booklets are fave rites with senti-
mental young people. and daintily sweet
many of them are. There is one shaped
and decorated like a perfume bottle with
a Cupid mounted on a humble bee. Scent
to you is on the stopper. Its leaves are
illustrated in colors. on one OF them is
written the following lines:
IT lay it at your feet,
The sentiment is sweet;
1t is not the scent | meant,
But the heart to you 1 sent"
Another, called the Queen Of Hearts,"
has only two leaves. 1t is shape like a
heart with the face of a lovely girl on
the cover. The back of the cover is also
prettily illustrated, but the two inside
pages are left blank for the signing lover
to record thereon his own version of his
love. If he had only the soul but not the
Dempster Sherman. whose love lyrics are
incompatible in modern poetry:
t, DAY TO my heart
With you comes always fair;
When you depart
, IT'S twilight there"
If you are an artist take simply a sheet
OF fair, heavy cream-lald note paper ana
illustrate the above quatrain; in the upper
portion of the page paint a sunrise with
two figures watching it, hand clasped in
hand; on the lower part OF the page a
cloudy, twilight sky with here and there
a star and but one figure gazing upward,
that of the disconsolate lover. Write the
verse between the two. On the second
page write the second verse:
Then love unbars
The door of dreams for me
And lights the stars
OF memory
Below this sketch a shadowy door with
the little god of love in the act of unbar-
ring 1t. In the foreground a rapturouS,
ardent kneeling Romeo notes the process
SO long as Shelley. Robert Herrick and
LOwelrs love poems live. SWANS may tell
their love in words glowing or tender as
Perchance, you are one who would never
again tell or listen 10 the ''old. old story"
because of the dead love that lies buried
in your heart; then remember the children
who never feel so delightfully."- grown up
as when they receive a valentine, though
IL be only from mamma or papa or Bridget.
II there is a 'shut-in' among your cir
Gle of friends you can make the day a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS enc by sending some
little remembrance. There is nothing more
suitable than that charming book arrar ged
and illustrated by Irene Jerome, called
IAN Old Love Letter" If she has a num-
Der of mutual friends, send to each a sheet
of heavy fair note paper. unfolded. re-
oueSting them by a certain date TO write
sentiment which they consider appropri-
ate to the occasion; tie these sheets togeth-
er with baby ribbon passed through Sits
cut in the backs with a sharp penknife,
inclose IL in a pretty hand-painted cover
and gladden. with this unexpected remem-
brance the heart Of your invalid.
You may abolish sentiment altogether and
LEI your gift be OF the most practical offer.
A tasteful calendar is made from a heart
shaped piece of celluloid or Of Whatman's
I drawing board with a Jagged edge. Cut
Sits In pairs, three pairs altogether, long
enough TO run through them inch wide