The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-07

I'm goin' to make a valu1ntime In kin
dergarten mex week." caroled q small
mite Of four in the car this morning.
And what is valumtime?" asked an
interested woman, from across the way.
The mite looked surprised and panied.
"a valumtime," she explained with great
dignity. sis a pretty picture t you SEN
the childrens It send you one"
It would seem as though a majority Of
the young people Of Minneapolis were ex-
pecting to receive pretty pictures" for
in nearly every house there is some one
making valentines. Advertisements are
ruthlessly cut to pieces in search Of GER
tain figure, innumerable heart-shaped
pieces of water color paper are prepared
and when the figures are mounted and
colored and a telling" verse printed be-
low they rival anything that may be
purchased, in the eyes OF the manufac-
turer and his friends.
"A sale Of homemade valentines was
opened this afternoon in the rooms OF the
Cable piano company and will be contin-
ued through Monday and Tuesday. 1t
is conducted by st. Margarets guild OF
St. Andrews church., organization OF
young girls of which Miss Claudine Chase
is president. Many Of the valentines were
made by Miss Christian and are clever
conceits in birch bark and water color.
They are in the poster fashion and are
both artistic and amusing. Grown peo-
teresting. Miss Christian is much inter-
ested in the work of the guild and she
has been busy for almost ay ear in the
manufacture of these souvenirs
Miss Mary Moulton Cheney and Miss
May Smith have designed some novel
university valentines which they have
| dubbed Cupid on the Campus" in which
| the impudent elf is shown as taking. a
| large share in college education. This
year Mrs. Fl. N. Paist is making pretty
sketches of children as well as flowers and
p-to-date women on her heart-shaped
cards and they are wonderfully attractive
with their crisp frocks, and charming
| faces peeping from under their unruly
| hair. The Sunbonnet Baby and the
Overall, Boy play prominent part in
| Miss Bertha L. Corbett's valentines and
they frolic as gaily around great red
| heart as anywhere their clever originator
| has placed them.
The children in the lower grades Of the
public school and in the kindergarten will
all make valentines Friday, and they al
feel grieved that the Saints day is on Sat
urday this year, for that deprives then
Of the postoffce, which is a, feature O
the day in many schoolrooms. The small
artists take the greatest possible 1nteres
lin their work and paint great red hearts
more or less alarming in shape, on card
hoard. Theemore ambitious children pain
a few words on the heart, and 1t is a
once transformed from a piece Of manil;
paper into a "valumtime.''
One does not see as many of the so
called comic valentines in the shops a
formerly, but the sale Of the sentimenta
verses mounted on lace paper, with
dove lowering above, grows larger ever
Year. Poets and artists are kept bus
twelve months in the year preparing fo
Feb. IA, and millions and millions of val
!, entines are manufactured in Brookly
. every year.
While the great majority of them fol
! low a stereotyped pattern, the manufac
> turers occasionally receive special order
l One that went from Minneapolis carrie
! with it a mans photograph and 81
! money order. The man wanted the fines
). valentine that could be made for tt
5 money, and it is composed of silk an
!. lace and sachet powder, and in the cer
d ter is a miniature on celluloid in lit
5 silver frame. A special verse was wri
5 ten by the poet to accompany the pit
:; ture and the lace and silk. 1t is hope
y that the girl who receives it will appr'
! ciate the special thought which has bee
u put into it by the artist, the poet. tt
tmanufa cturer and the young man.