El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-13
OUR VALENTINES.
A Few Sketches on St. VAL
entine's Day.
Fun and Fancy interviewer i'll the Sem
timent of the Day Gotten Up For
the Herald's Readers.

st. Valentine ; day comes on sunday
this year, so the celebration such as 1t
is comes on this blessed day Saturday
and the post Office is burdened with the
usual heavy run that makes the post
master imagine Christmas has come
| again.
st. Valentines day is not observed
| in this part of the country as much as
might be expected. One book and
| stationer dealer says he does not
| handle Valentines at all. At one drug
store, the proprietor says he is selling
more than ever. at another drug store,
the call is nothing more than ordinary,
and at a news and paper notions store,
the demand appears to be for comic
rather than the high toned outfits.
However, quite number OF the bet
ter class of Valentines are being sold
some of them quite expensive, eX-
pressive of love and tender sentiment
generally, and the average young
swain is thinking, thinking. thinking
whether he shall buy hlmsen unoer-
wear he is sadly in need of, or go shlver-
ing, and invest the cash in fancy
Valentine with a looking glass in it and
a whole lot of love guSh for the OBJ ct
of his hearts affections.
Sentiments expressed in some of the
missives contain such poetlcal sentl-
ments as:
You led him by silken string,
And with him walk the avenue;
For me you do not care thing.
Though on string you lead me too.
On him your smiles you lavish free,
l of your kindness have no part,
To think he should my rival be
That ugly bulldog has your heart.
Boo.
Under the ,romautic title of zone
Fad More" a St. Valentines day poet
writes:
OF fads, and whims and fancies dear,
| know YOU have a score;
But. won't you, love, your way see
clear
To taking up one more?
IT'S not id that others know,
Yours all alone will be:
Heed, sweetheart, while 1 whisper
That little fad is me,
A poet who takes salt water in his
cup of sentiment, indicts his moon
struck fancies thusly:
Oh. crueller than frost in May.
You called me ''such a stick" one day,
But gilded thick with true loves gold;
Bright with his rubles red, behold,
The stick, transformed, jeweled wand,
Fit even for yolr fairy hand.
Yet another Valentines day poetry
mandatory, with mind running to-
wards filthy lucre in illu -tration OF his
ideas indicts:
My lady's purse contains-who knows:
A little change, some coins of gold.
The remnants of withered rose,
Reminder of some love of old,
No matter what the contents be,
Such trlhing things or even worse,
They are of small import to ne,
| love her person, not her purse.
A moon inspired versifer writes
these two stanzas for valentine con-
sumption:
All. Betty dear, your warm lined frock
Makes all my hopes run high and
daring.
You can not at sovereign mock,
The while-his colors you are wear
ing.
The hue is loves, fair lady mine,
To scott at him were utter treason.
Oh surely since you don his sign,
You'll let him be- the vogue a season.
AS to prices of valentines. they range
all the way from cent to dollar and
upwards. though in larger PLACES than
FL PasO valentines run up in cost to
SO: and this sort of valentine the buy
err gets the finest scented satin, real
lace. and flowers that look alive. Tn
comic affairs are generally cheap and
more or less crude, and represent the
mediocre attempt at wit. and appeal
to the gallery Some of the sent;
ment is not over elevating. and when "a
man or woman re elves one that hits
off their failings, they are apt to lose
tn ir temper.
FL PdsO people VIII celebrate the
day as ft'ingly as they can. and there
will be more or less merriment for a
few days at the expense of personal
pride.