Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-08

Already the stores are showing
great spreads of valentines, from the
alleged comic poster at ten cents
dozen to as costly a gift as one can
afford for his owny-own STEADY"
The better feature OF ST. Valentines
has grown of late years, perhaps
through the enterprise of the manu-
facturers of holiday specialties. With
the approach of the day each year a
greater variety of articles that may be
used as gifts appears in the stores to
tempt those who are hunting an ex-
cuse to buy something to give away.
With the addition of st. Valentines
day and Easter to the gift-making days
Of the year, the ardent young man
ought to manage certainly to spend all
he should Pretty gifts. suggestive of
a season or particular day, are always
in order, and there are some beautiful
and inexpensive things SHOWN IN the
stores.
The old fashioned lace trimmed
valentine comes as familiar friend,
unchanged in form or garb and with
exactly the same couplets il, has al
ways borne. 1t may be bought for
from cents to S., but very few of
the latter are sold. This is because
| it is only the children who buy this
kind nowadays or occasionally a
| foreigner who wants to send a memen-
to to the girl he left behind. Quite
the prettiest valentines on the card
order are the large artistically ar
love from Shakespeare, Tennyson or
some other well known poet, with H.
Illustrations of the scene from which
the lines are taken. Some of these
are very beautiful. Others on the same
order and not so expensive are more
after the design of Christmas cards
with pretty though not necessarily
sentimental sentiment. Many of these
can be bought for a penny, and there
| is a large trade in them.
The threatened prostitution of the
day to the level of April fools day
seems to be passing. For a time it
looked as if the foolish poster, called
Comic" would drive the sentimental
missive off the face of the earth; but
! the wounded feelings and real enmi-
ties that followed in the wake OF that
food of soiled paper, has about sealed
the fate of the penny article. A few
years more and it will be well into
history. No real lover forgets his be-
loved on this occasion, but his offer
ing takes the form of flowers, fruits,
a piece of jewelry. In flowers a pot
or basket of growing violets is the fa-
vorite. Bonbons come put up in the
lCveliest heart shaped boxes, flower
decked, for this especial season. Up
on opening them the first thing that
meets the eye is candy Cupid, bow
and arrow in hand, nestled among the
bonbons. Big heart shaped baskets
also come for fruits. In the way of
jewelry diamond heart shaped locket
containing the picture of the sender Is
the most appropriate. These diamond
hearts range in size from very small
dainty ones to those that are as large
as a saucer. OF course these are only
sent where an engagement exists
Other little trinkets that are especial
ly suitable for the day are heart
shaped jewel cases, bonbonnieres, mir
rors, cushions and fancy baskets of
all kinds. Another desirable gift is
love poem copiously illustrated
The Garden Song" from Maud" be-
ing one of the prettiest.
Many odd fancies are found in cards
done in water colors. One of these
shows a maiden fencing with Cupid,
and on her foil is a row of hearts.
Below are only two words, me too"
Some of Mrs. Browning's Sonnets
From the Portuguese, exquisItely
bound, are also numbered among cur
rent valentines, while an absent one
can give no more delicate hint Of his
loneliness than by sending a box of
note paper containing either the mon
ogram or the address of the one to
whom it is sent. Although a woman
nOb tApttbtu W any pltStuL,
there is one which she may give her
affianced, and that is a picture OF her
self in jeweled frame. Quite up to
date is music box of mechanical at
tachment Of some kind, and Of course
all the music sent Is love songs. In
fact, grown up people are RUNNING
more and more TO holiday presents
and considerable ingenuity is used L
twist them around and give them tn
proper significance. In comic waller
tines there are the same doggerel an
the same grotesque creatures, excep'
that golf comes in for a large shar
of the caricaturing, and the poe
wheelman is left more in peace
There is growing tendency to pol
fun at sports of every kind in III
comics this year, and Of course II
football crank Is fertile theme.