New-York tribune., 1902-02-10
"ODDITIES" IN BoAS.
FOR ST. VALENTINES DAY.
NOVELTIES IN CARDS. JEWELS AND FLOW.
ERS TO BE SENT AS LOVE MESSAGES.


| ERS TO BE SENT AS LOVE MESSAGES.
! The approach OF ST. Valentines Day this year
finds no decrease in the number Of charming novel
1 ties suited the tender sentiment of the season
! A unique idea that finding favor is a message
| on the familiar yellow sheet and purporting to
come from the Matrimonial Union Telegraph Com
pany.' with ''numberless offices in America" and
cable service to the world" Dan Cupid is pres-
dent and general manager. The message reads:
Ny Sweetheart:
send my love to you by wire.
YOUR VALENTINE.
Another and more attractive token is heart
| shaped. In a moonlit landscape. wreathed with
| lilies of the valley, birds cooing and be-
meath them are the words: How happy just we
two could be-
Two hearts that beat as one" is illustrated by
innumerabe designs. and single hearts are sur
mounted with fair heads Of maids and nymphs On
folding card meets the query: What is
lfe2" and upon opening it is confronted with
Without wife?" particularly pretty conceit
is in the form Of chariot of violets drawn by
cupds. It bears the message, ITO my sweetheart:
These flowers. so sweet and blue,
Are laden with my love for you.
On hook and eye design is the declaration:
These two always so together and a match
across heart accompanies the query: 'Wi you
match me?''
A great variety OF comic expressions found
among heads which made OF clam shells and
Even the Jewellers have entered the contest and
showing end OF fascinating brooches. lockets
and pendants. all heart shaped, Of course. and the
most costly incrusted with pearls and diamonds.
True lovers knots too. are in favor and
flowers of many kinds. the latter made of enamel
fresh pearls. The flowers indeed,
much liked by the swain who understands the Ian
guage of flowers and who chooses with care the
FIowers as messengers of St. Valentine Will
Books an a S2dy %e d With oers for o
purpose The old floral Dictionaries in fact.
time have been more eagerly sought than usual
The confectioners. not to be behind. are display
ing great varieties Of favors, costly bonbonnieres
a woman Of ninety-two years, telling of the val
homemade and cut out Of Very vi fine paper W into
exquisite iaceke designs with the verses written ]
sheets. Many times flower placed in the
rare 93o We didn't have 'S so many
things in those days and We enioved them more:
besides. people were more sincere. and married
for love and worked for riches -
St Valentine was a presbyter OF the Church who
suffered 6o martyrdom under the Emperor Glaudius.
Searched the legend Of St valentine hut there IS
no occurrence IN his life that could give rise 70
Darts and SO famous for his love and chaTitv that
tiyal took its its rise Ie from thenee ,,, ,,...,
among the vulgar E to draw beFn lots which they term @
names OF a select number Of one sex are chosen by
equal number OF the other, put into vessel.
for the present is called their valentine. and is
looked upon a good omen for their being man
and wife afterward."
In 1876 the of choosing valentines was a
sport practised in the homes Of the gentry in
England.
In The Connoisseur' of 1776 is found the follow
Is @ acCout Ut 0i q species Oh T 1TVa9n as
was Valentine Day. and the night before l got
five bayleaves and pinned four OF them TO the four
corners Of my pillow and the fifth TO the middle;
and then If dreamt of sweetheart. Betty said
should be married before the year out But
10 make il more boiled egg hard and took
out the yolk and filled it with salt; and when went
TO bed ate it, shell and all. without speaking or
drinking after il. We wrote lovers upon
bits of paper and rolled them up In clay and put
them into water. and the first that 10 be
valentine. Would think il. Mr.. Blossom
was my man. lay abed and shut my eyes all
the morning. till he to house, for /
would have another man before him for
all the world