The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-02-13

'tnIs IN their taPor--Jnev cnn oo ,,,x.
.part1cular work sowell that the public
approves, while 'the manufacturers by
whom they are employed are enabled TO
furnish work to 900 persons the wear
round to carry cut the mechanical proc
tesssof making and shipping valentines.
The Artist sRnd the Rhvmist.
These men are Messrs Howard and
fSsgney. Theiremployers for the public
are the Mclaughlin Bros, at whose
factory in Williamsburg, N. Y, every
sonic valentine in the land is made.
Over there in their great storehouse the
f25, 900, 000 gSzAlos are evolved, printed,
packed and stripped away. Mr.. How
Fard draws the pictures, and Mr.. Rig
lney writes the jingles. No outside art
lists or rhymsters are necessary. They do
1t all They are constantly on the look
! out for new 9aGs, new hobbies, new fol-
lies as subjects for brush and pen. They
produce about so new valentines, each
year, but the factory also prints many
| OF the old cues in additicn-some 400
all together. In order to be made pop1-
lar and saleable much discretion must
be used in the selection of the subject,
and new valentine is settledE pon only
| after seTeralaarnest consultations. The
subject must be one that will DE appre-
ciated not alone in one city or state, bus
all over the country. For instance, "a
valentine .inQuiring, "WheEe did yen
get it?'' would have good sale in New
| York state, where the workings of the
Lexow committee were read and under
stood, but in other states it would tbe
fiat and meaningless.
Twenty-Five of the so new subjects
which Gig friends Howard and Rigney
evolved this year treat Of differences
poets and views of the woman cyeEst
and Of the.nnch caricatured young lady
who makessher living on the typewriter.
The extentsto which the w4man bicy-
clist has been caricatured is simply
weariseme, and the artist and rhymsber
themselves are heartily tired of her. OF
course, having been SO popular during
the past year, she offers fair sport for
the caricaturist, who in his turnSonly
represents the playful puhlio. Hence
this poor female cyclist is scoredaa Ia
valentine because she can't ride, sheer
ed at because she is homeiy or too old
and reproRsd for wearing bloomers. If
the women bicyclists Withstand the
sight of themselves in these valentines,
they are proof against all furthergpnb-
lie protest.
1t ActEERlly Increases In Extent
I am assured by experts that the
comic valentine disease, instead of grew
ing less prevalent every year, as many
of us imagine, is actually growing more
contagious every year. AS has been
limited, even the hard times do net re-
duce the saieeof that Is, 000, 900, and
misguided people too poor to pay the
grocer and the butcher expend theirpen-
MES on caricatnres which they believe
will hit their ,neighbors Gin the right
spot. "
The comic valentine disease is large
" confined to the west South OF Wash
ington and eastof New Haven the comic
valentine has only small SALE No
valentines are imported, and, as for San
Francisco, she is always just one year
behind the time, for valentines being
dirt cheap and overland freight being
high the penny dreadfuls for the tar
west are shipped on sailing vessel by
way of the Horn and are six months aa