Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-10-28
THE VALENTINE HEART.


adores physiology.
1T does do a great deaf of work said
Belinda, with emphasis
And then it is such queer shape"
continued Phyllis, still with enthusiasm.
1T is not the least bit like tue valentine
charts with the sharp point and the dent
at the top"
1T is the valentine heart | was talk
ing about" said Belinda, and it is just
exactly the shape it ought to be for the
heart that you feel anu suffer with and
that gives pain to your friends
You mean that you feel with a nice
little pointed valentine heart and not the
funny round one tina: beats, that you see
in the physiology books" queried PhyI-
lis, astOnshed.
Il am sure of it," said Belinda. de-
cidedly.
You think we have two hearts?"
gasped Phyllis.
Il only know about one" responded
Belinda, gloomily, and that is the val
entine kind and it would be much better
II we had none at an
Belinda is i'll the midst of lovers
quarrel.
OH said Phyllis. nonplussed
The heart" continued Belinda in
lugubriOus tone. lis the cause of all our
troubles. 1t gives us Indigestion and
dyspepsia, RUNS our competitions and
makes our eyes dull. 1t makes us stlpid
and diSagreeable and loses us our
friends. If it wasn't for our hearts we
should be good and beautiful. we'll and
happy Belinda heaved deep sigh
bn
heart, now. don't you, Belinda :" hazard
ed Phyllis.
No, that has nothing more to do with
our happiness and good looks than orr
stomachs and our brains, and they would
be all right if it wasn't for the hateful
little valentine hearts that we always
carry around on our sleeves continued
belinda, still more gloomily.
Phyllis looked down at her own arm
doubtfuly. and then at Belinda ;.
The valentine heart is just the right
shape" said Belinda. 1T has point To
prinli the people we love best and IT
las a dent at the top. because some one
Is always hurting us and making little
holes in our tenderest feelings.
Then we are unhappy and can't ea,.
and we go to bed and cry our eyes out
and our brains get soggy. We can't tall,
and we feel so badly that when the peo-
pie we love come and try to be nice to
us, we don't know what we are doing
that little sharp pointed heart gives them
jab and we don't care whether we are
alive or not. and perhaps they don't.
either" Belinda gave Il vicious little
dash ut her eyes with her lace hand
kerchief.
IF we hadn't hearts we should always
be nice. and even tempered, do just the
right thing at the right time, and say
pleasant things to people because we
shouldn' Il really care, and we should
calmly think out what was best to do.
And if people said hateful things to
us-they. never would if they hadn't val
entinC hearts. too-we should answer
qGietly because we should not care
whether they said it or not.
Now, with the valentine heart on
your slecve-and | don't know but lot
of 'om scattered all over you to prick
with an to get hurt-what do you do2
1ou answer back. make people think you
don't care, though you do; have hor-
ried time and they do too. Then when
you have cried all night you are sure to
have big red spots on your nose in the
morning and you eyes looh like little
pink pigs and no one will look at you
any way"
Belinda made another surreptitious
dash at her eyes.
I'm sure they are not all that kind
u " ledTl, salu L lSlllS aHecUOnateiy,
for | know YOU never made me feel
badly in all your life, Belinda, and |
wouldn't make Il dent in your heart for
anything III the world"
You're darling." said Belinda. Civ
Ing Phyllis bears hug that rumpIed
her pompadour. but you see / don't
think | was thinking of hearts in Just
that way" and she blushed rosilg.
OH sand Phyllis, rearrangng Il curl
over her right ear.
And | think all girls have the same
kind of valentine hearts that are always
getting hurt and hurting people. and
making them do the very last thing ia
the world they want to when they would
like to be very nice to some one There
was Cora the other night at Mrs. BGbs.
| know She is getting ever 50 fond of
Dick Jones and he thinks everything of
her But he danced first with that pref
~ little girl who was visiting Mrs. Bob
and il made Cora feel awfully | could
see. She had lots of partners and made
believe had Il lovely time, but she didn't
Il bit. Her valentine heart had such a
big dent in it that she wanted to cry
Dick didn't know anything about il. He
only danced with the other girl because
Mrs Bob asked him to. He and Cora
are not really engaged yet anyway As
soon as the dance was over he came
hurrying 10 G9t9, But what do YOU
WHAT" asked Phyllis much inter
2Stcd.
If she hadn't had valentine heart
she would have smiled swcetIy, said
something nice and looked pretty and he
would have thought how much more at
| tructive she AS than the other girl and
everything Would have been an right.
But that was just what she didn't do be-
cause her valentine heart was aching 50
that she could hardly see She tried
TO he natural, bht that is what hearts
with dents in won let you be. So She
was stiff and cool aud poor Dick didn't
| understand. lie went away in hun
and Cora said she had a headache ANA
went home early, but she really had
| heart trouble
Her head was throbting like any
thing said Phyllis, but l remember
it WAS as you said about Dick
Yes it is always So said Belinda.
Il remember quite we'll when l first met
Tom. Then when newell. he did seem
to like me il little bit and / couldn't help
seeing that he WIS wrpnt Ipoi uirpt. fhau