The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
YOU MAY RECEIVE ONE TUESDAY A. M. How the Valentines Will Read
 This Year BUSTER BROWN FAVORITE Messages of Love, Sentiment, Humor, Sarcasm and Wit Will Cheer Up the Thousands on St. 1
 vaIentins's Day. .% < Why don't
 Someone ask
 Somone to be
 Someone's
 Valentine?
BUSTER BROWN FAVORlTE
Why don't
 Someone ask Somone to be Someone's s Valentine?

valentine!
 And so Bustei< Brown has broken into the valentine world again, and on Tues day he will deliver his little bits of poetry and comic attitudes-appropria St. Valentines remembrances.
 Nor is Buster the only genius who will carry a message of sentiment or humor on the fourteenth day of February. Every nation under the sun has been called in for this purpose, and with appropriate words and pictures they will go on their mission to bring pleasure to the hearts or countless thousands-only little remem- brance.
 For instance in this national series comes the old familiar negro dialect, with the little pickaninny making love:
 Honey now
 Your eyes do shine,
 Won't you
 Be my Valentine?
 Let my arms around you twine,
 Like the clinging melon vine. But from the ridiculous to the sublime. There are poems of love, passion, and even booklets filled with nothing but mes a valentine. This year as never before are to be found such offerings as That Old Sweetheart of Mine" Tn Loves Gar den," or "The Courtship of Niles Stan dish" But the one that seems to be catching the popular fancy is Cupid s Game With Hearts" prettily bound lit tie book with newspaper clippings, tele- grams and love letters all from sweet heart to sweetheart.
 These sentimental valentines are selling this year in. large numbers. and seeming ly all those who are blsssed with q sweet heart are sending a remembrance of this sort.
 And then there are aesthetic valentines, generally bearing a heart somewhere. handpainted on satin or celluloid and many of them real works C. art. These are somewhat expensive. but then they make acceptable presents for her lady ships room. and Birmingham sweethearts will have many of them to hang.
 The poster cards are again all the rage, and fully five times as many will be used this year as ever before. They con- tain all the various kinds of valentine messages. For instance one of them shows a typical street urcIia with woe-be-gone face, holding bunch of violets his intended has just refused, and like a philosopher he says:
 ''I axed me goii if she would marry me, and she says 'Non and I sayd 'WhyT and she says Because and I says Be- cause why? and she says oh, well, be- cause.' !"
 ''Dat's woman's way of reasonn' and the only answer I can get"
 These are, however. only some of the many valentines to be sent. Such things as boxes of candies. each piece in the shape of heart and some bearing mes sages will be in vogue; not to speak of violets and roses, all of which delight the feminine eye.
 Before the subject passes away, for the day comes but once year, there Is an- other little piece of poetry which Is catch ing the eye of many a man, and not few girls will receive a post card on which there Is a dainty little maid juggling with hearts, and the rhyme runs:
 You are juggling Little Maid,
 With my heart, I am afraid;
 But if mines the only one,
 You are welcome to the fun
 And there are hundreds of others, some of which each and every one will read on Tuesday morning.