The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-25

ike Thanksgiving, we like the Fourth
# july and we would like St. Valen-
] .;oes day if the comic valentines could
be suppressed.
We have just been opening some
/ e the most hideous, warped-faced,
ont. treason .monstrosities that was
] srer put upon paper. The things we
have received are enough to make two
rpak old men commit suicide and we
discussed doing SO, but we argued our
/ selves into believing that it was pow
4 erful unanimous for a joke. When
We we're young we used to get them
Of a very different tone to the ones
We receive now. We learned then
/ tbst the sweet things the girls wrote
] us was only a joke and we have griev-
1 ed much because they were q joke,
/ but it is consoling now, for maybe
4 these comic ones are a joke, too-thus
70 reason and thus we were saved
! from suicide.
/ Though we r considerably dis
4 figured at the present writing, we live
! in the hope that we may receive some
4 sweet ones by the next mail. The
I day is too sweet a day to spend in
making folks feel bad, and besides
4 people may be mistaken in the esti-
mate they put upon 3 fellow and he
has no way Of defending himself
under the custom. If the ones I have
received ircly represent the feeling
] Of folks toward me I know there is o
4 great mistake. Most all that I have
received deal with me IS though I
was a hard drinker-a drunkaTda. This
needs no defence from me among these
who know me, for these know that /
have long since deslared against the
44yile stuff. used to take q little "for
the stomach's sake" but not a drop
Dan be got down my throat now, not
a drop. ! cannot account for this
mistake of people thinking that 1
brink, as Indicated b. those comic
valentines, in any other way than
(hat they mistake me for BROWNIE
)ook considerably alike sometimes and
1his may account for my having to
bear the stigma Of drinking.
There are other features Of change
Plat have come over the spirit of st.
Valentines day. Once it was the GUS
pom for the young folks to meet and
piss and mate off for q year on the
morning Of this sweet day. The Gus
Pom gave privileges to young men
s}hat caused them to rise early and
5ftir fast on that morning. Just think
SPf ayouug man Ebeing privileged to
Kiss the first girl he meets on this
porning. Don't you think there
f0uld be some active stirring now if
Plat was the privilege? Besides, the
couple that met first on this morning
'8aFere mated for a year; they were
7Weethearts till the next St. Valen-
Pines day, with privileges chat no
9sher fellow could have for that
period. This made the early morning
u the day lively and full Of hustlers,
Pad then, as it would be now, the
girls we're not caught and kissed by
|'ery fellow that came along but
1hen the right fellow came they were
pretty easily caught-you all know
Pow that is.
1t was generally arranged before
aud who should meet one with anoth-
and this made it all the more pleas-
|nt and almost always ended in q mar
7PAge before the next st. Valentines
~ rolled around. After q day Of
an and frolic in the old times, the
3lsht would usher in q good old-fash-
Paed party that wound up by q kiss
II round among the mated Occupies.
bis was glorious and you all know
low that was.
These old customs are gone; these
Pnccent privileges are no more. They
l9n write the sweet little verses
Pey used to write, and the kissing
jould not be innocent now. It takes
'}sney now tc celebrate the day-it
}Ses money to do anything. Even
2'ers nov, with all their boast Of
f0gress and culture, fail to write as
]ouog folks used to write from the
pl'ness of their hearts; but they sail
Gay to the store and pick out a valen-
pc according to its money value as
~ gauge Of their hearts feelings.
5le valentine that costs the most mon
Is now the n that expresses the
epest affection. That is the idea
nmercialism.
oy many the happy day ia past un-
Pslced in. the greed Of business.
liners make it +Na oooas;op e., Az.