The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-02-14


over ths preceding week and the
week that comes after. For days and
days the Small Person sneaks into the
house with unnatural. unhealthy and
suspicious quiet holding queer shaped
bulging packages under her coat or
suuggled away in the innernOst cav
ems OF her absurd little mur The
paste pot appears everywhere in the
house The paste brush disappears
entirely and is finally found in a state
Of suicide and the ink-bo-tle You see
something on the floor that looks like
. cherry. You pick il up and it Is a
red paper heart While you are look
ing az II the Small Person trots into
the room. gives you one mysterious
glance. Immediately separates you
from your treasure and scampers
away TO q hiding place under the din
fngroom table. where she sits for three
straight hours in a billowy pool Of
white paper lace. big white envelopes
and nunberless samples OF scissors
Then. after these charming hours
OF mysterious preparation. the great
day approaches The mail man is the
Kris Kringie, the Santa ClS1s. the
good fairy. With Bonded shoulders he
plots down the street. while the Small
Person has her nose glued 20 tightly
20 the window pane that there is con
siderable question whether or not it
will detzch itself without the aid OF
Q paper knife.
A.rF -
At imminent risk OF catching every
thing from a cold 10 a spanking the
Small Person dashes out OF the front
door and fairly leaps into the mail
bag.
She emerges looking Ike a young
stationery establishment. nothing but
envelopes. big. little and middle sized
With a squsal and scurry she blows
back into the house and opens Up her
treasures. There are paper trees flled
with brilliant paper roses. and be
meath the forest trees cit little cupids
~without no clos on at al. Just a
81 II we're not February and chilly
Great big. beautiful white swan carr
more beautiful even than 4 new au
tomobile-are dragged out OF theil
white castings. and 10, when you touch
q little spring somewhere the swar
cars are flled with flowers and al
sorts Of wonderful. exquisite. beautiful
things. Ike birds and jewels aad Low
Grg hearts. Oh. II is very. very dc
ughtfal. being q child on St Valer
tines day.
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che quiet home atmosphere into qui'
ere you cit down In a fzraway col
rer and think Of the time when 20
We're q little girl Perhaps you didn
have as much attention as the Sma
Person; perhaps things didn't som
how come your wsy-and perhaps II
because you had SO little that 70
are ready 10 make any sacrifice (
that the Small Person shall haV
much Il IL from deprivations tn
you learn what good things mean al
how much they mean.
Somehow your mind goes way bac
90 far you wouldn't dare tell q
years You wouldn't even guess thei
II seems so long ago that Il must ha
been another world. or anyway q
ether life. You see dingy old scho
room, where the benches we're frigl
fully hard and where the clock ~
90 lazy II never moved its hands
all The days were very long for
little tiny child who should have be
ronping and playing out OF doors
Ore day there came strange WI
perings about s. Valentine. You W
dersd II hS we're the man Who ca
70 trim the trees In the orchard
was all very new TO you. becal
everything was new. and you had
much 70 get acquainted with in
strange wcrld.
The other children talked know
~ about a ST. Valentines box y
day they fled in one after a-oi
and into a biz wooden box Z