New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
COLLECT VALENTINES.
Some Samples of "Ginds Girls
Send to One AnOther.

II II were not for the college girls St Valen-
tine would be In danger of becoming cad' but
the college girls regard him as huge JOKE
and Jolly him numerically. They do not let
his day go by unnoticed. On the contrary. they
herald It with Joy and make great preparations
for IT, but there hardly bit OF sentiment
in their worship. For three or four weeks be-
fore the 18th OF February huge signs appear
on the bulletin boards In the dormitorles. So
iicit!ng orders for valentines. for the girls with
deft fingers seize the opportunity to make
little money end the girls who have money are
willing to pay it out fer original valentine,
and college valentine must be original before
anything else. Sometimes the girl with the
money supplies the idea and the deft fingered
girl works Il out.
The character of these valentines IS mostly In
the way OF grind and Il is carried out in
every conceivable way-by water colors. by
sketches. by poems. by incongruous articles. OF
course. there is the little freshman who feels
bound to send her senior crush flowers and con-
fectionery. but the true college valentine Is
sharp dig. Woe to the girl who has obtrusive
mannerisrls for she will be raped right and
left, although the jokes never OF hateful
nature. Cupid receives some attention. but It
is OF the frivolous sort, for he Is jeered and
sneered at.
Contrary to popular opinion college girls give
and take knocks good naturedly college
boys do. and the lazy girl who receives bunch
OF hrecrackers on st. Valentines Day laughs
heartily at the joke The girl with big ambi-
ton to join one of the societies. an ambition
which she has been trying to keep secret. is
little startled when she receives an enormous
Greek letter made out OF red paper. and on It
in black letters. Sure as sin, want pin" A
clever valentine sent year to young woman
who extremely popular with the men was
a circle 0f hearts with the face OF OF her
friends peering out OF each one, In the
centre was pen and ink sketch OF herself. and
below It, "An men look alike to me-"
Often copies OF Gibson, Underwood and
Christy are sent, and little dumping of girl
once received yard of Fanny Cory's children.
This year the dead broke girls-and there are
plenty of them In a woman's college-wilI re-
ceive big rolls OF Chadwick paper money. And
the lIcorice buttons which the children buy in
a penny candy store will be sent In large
punches to the maidens who never have time to
sew on button. A ludicrous valentine which
was sent last year to very fat girl was a
plump sofa cushion so pulled and twisted that 1t
looked exactly like its recipient And a very
tall girl received scrap OF music OF the song,
''Just take little bit of the top for me-"
There is 4 reckless disregard of metre or
rhythm in the poems which accompany the val
entines. but II the hit is sharp and the rhyme
is fair they are considered satisfactory. With
tiny grindstone which was sent TO a chronic
'funker was the Jingle:
Gg5 G0g5 marks MAJ Sa9 my love have fallen behind
With bunch of all sorts of pencils. big and
little. red and blue and ordinary black, was sent
the rhymelet:
As you're always SEQ"
You can use this peck
And the recipient was a young woman who
was invariably elected secretary of any organt-
cation to which she belonged. To a chafing dish
expert was once sent a water color of a chaflng
dish, very cleverly painted. and near it was a
pink saucer, in which reposed a very large heart
Underneath was the invitation:
Thou. lady of the chafng dish.
I'd stake much on thy cookery.
Take my heart, valentine.
And serve it in thy nookery
An engaged girl once made the mistake Of
bidding her fance goodnight on a part of the
piazza which was lighted as to throw their
shadows clearly on the snow and on the 14tb oF
February, TO her amaZement. she received repre-
sentations of that goodnight in siIhouettes
water colors, pen and ink drawings all SO we'll
taken. -'-
The star golf player received from an admir-
with the words:
Though you are no cad
You need caddie.
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There are college maidens who have the "nror,
nablt which means that they have numerous
invitations TO "proms" at the mems college and
are constantly asking leave of absence to at
tend. One of these maidens received a bunch of
-eaVe-o1 1-absence blanks. cunningly copied i'm
pen ana INK. and each one made out the
set giving her permission to go to sproms', in
every college in the country
The eternal feminine crops out in the keen
observation or pecuiiarities of dress The girl
VINO does not keep her belt and skirt properIv
I;tstehed In the back receives an enormous safety
pm Ihe girl who poses by wearing her hair
IN a braid down her back receives a water colOr
OF tiny girl with an immense pigtail. and the
girl who affects mannish attire receives a tiny
pair of trousers.
Some of the seniors who are beginning 70
realize that college friendships will soon be over
Seha one another poems OF friendship written
on ordinary stationery, and art students often
seaa a bit OF their work TO = particularly be-
'oVed trlend photographs of college scenes are
sent TO alumnse, and sometimes popular mem
DerS or the faculty are sent pretty gifts But
for the greater part the college valentine Is a