New-York tribune., 1903-02-08


| try, are located, nearly three hundred women and
girls and about two hundred men and boys have
been working from early in the morning until 10
| O'Clock at night printing, embOssing. cOloring,
pasting, mounting packing and shipping valen-
! tines at the rate Of many thousand daily What
! is said TO be the largest single order for vaen-
| tines ever filed IN the world was recently sent
| out from these shops II was sent 20 Chicago,
| and included 1,3ti2,OO0 valentines of all kinds
| and styles, from the two for cent variety up
/ to some Of the highest priced affairs. done on
/ satin with lace paper and hand painted de-
signs To send this big shipment required four
| freight cars the valentines being packed into
two thousand cases.
/ There is a constantly increasing demand for
valentines" said prominent manufacture re-
Gently. Why, our shops are running day ana
night and still cannot fill the orders pouring
in upon US. They began to come in as early as
last August, and now the demand has reached
it's height"
Probably not one person IN ten' out Oh 'ne
thousands who both send and receive valentines
on the day u the year when CUPID mas IuiI
charge of affairs gives the manufacture OF the
love laden missive thought To the person
! who has been through valentine factory VINO
has as q poet might put it, walked hand III
hand with Cupid there is much more 10
that person a valentine, whether OF the penny
variety or OF the art creations IN ceilu-
loid and satin, presents a picture OF actlVlIS
that wearies the brain; a picture OF great rooms
filed with young women cutting, pastlng, IoLd-
ing painting and packing valentines OF al
sorts and sizes; it recalls the rattle OF presses
and the smell of glue
To the person who has been allowed to wan
der at viii through a valentine factory CUPID
can never again be the dear deceiver he was
est Il
work god OF the affections he sinks TO the level
of a careJessIy clad advance agent for an army
Of wonder workers in lace paper and gay coIors.
One feels like the child who for the first time
discovers q parent fsasqueradIng as Santa Claus
on Christmas Eve.
To begin with-those verses, Ask one Of the
few leading valentine manufacturers where the
heartrending verses come from that hidden
away under pile of gaudy flowers and many
coIored angel faces, form the heart or core OF
the rnissive. and he will smile one of those
sad faraway smiles. They come from every
" here he will say Really. they come from no
especial source; they are picked up everywhere.
Yes, some are original; others are not Makers
of the comics have persons whose business II
is to grind out the doggereI accompanying the
gaudy pictures on them, but in the better grade
of valentines it is more matter of chance
And one cannot well doubt it after reading
effusions like this:
know heart in lady-land. 50 innocent and
bright:
know a dear and dainty hand. warm and wee
and white -,
hold
II soud bind ikem close and fast within a hoop
OF gold
There is a certain fitness about these YaIer-
tine verses that eIngs to like eOid. For
instance Row appropriate it would be 60 send 4
modern business man valentine inscribed
thus
When TIE golden sun is sinking
And YOUR heart from is free.
WheE Ger thousand things you re thinklnS
Will YOU sometimes think OF me-
This would be very pretty little bit of seAtl-
rnent TO try on the landlord
Talk no more OF future gloom
Our Joys shall always last
For hope shall brighten days To come
And memory g1ld the past
But the verses are easy compared TO the de-
signs if the valentine makers are 20 De believed
How to get Cupid into some different yet some
touching attitude: how still to preserve those
distinctive wings, the bow and the qulHer OK