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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
TALKING VALENTINE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My grandmother got her first valen-
tine when she was about B years Old
from her grandmother. 1t was u beau
tiful valentine. 1t came through the
mail from Fairyland, as her grand
mother was her fairy godmothar, too.
When grandmother was 4 years old
she had always said she wanted val
ehtine. She had wished and it had
come true. How happy she was when
her mother brought it in to her.
The valentine could talk, so my
grandmother, whose name was Edna,
found out. One day as she was look
ing over her belongings in her room
she came to her valentine She heard
a voice so faint and sweet that she
was quite frightened at first, but soon
forgot all her fear when it said: Your
fairy godmother gave me life to speak
to you and help you with your work
as well as not to forget"
Now ndna was quite a forgetful lit
tie girl, although she didn't mean to
be.
Your fairy godmother tells me you
are quite thoughtless about other peo-
pies feelings, so when you forget l
am to tell you; you are to keep me
with you all the time
one day [ went over to grandma's.
| begged her to tell me story about
her first valentine. 1t was week be-
fore Valentine day. This is how [ came
to know about her first valentine.
DOROTHY TAFT,
Sawtelle city school, grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
WANDERER SENDS VALENTINE

Dear Aunt Laurie;
on February IA, 1903, a parcel came
to the home of my grandma. She
opened it with care and you can't guess
what it was; it was her first valentine.
She certainly was delighted to re-
ceive it.
A poor little boy brought the Valen-
tine to her. He said the postmaster
gave him quarter to bring it, SO
grandma gave him another twenty
five-cent piece.
The valentine was large and beauti-
full 1t was pink celluloid.
Grandma had a son who disappeared
when he was Is years old. He was the
one that sent the valentine to grandma.
She never knew where he was till she
received it.
When grandma opened the box she
found a card saying ITO My Dear
Mother"
She opened to the inside of the val
entine and it read:
BE my valentine so true,
For you know
I'm fond of YOU
The big boy had been in New York
for two years
Grandma went upstairs Immediately
and put the valentine in her trunk,
where it couldn't get spoiled. She
wanted to keep it for a keepsake to
remember her son. She kept it as long
as she lived.
NELLY CLAVELOT,
Age 10, Sawtelle public school,
grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
A FAIRY TALE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Once there was an old woman who
lived in the woods. One day she heard
a knock at the door, and when she
opened it an old man gave her val
entine and said:
"Go to the south window and see
what will happen"
So the old man went away, and as
soon as granny got to the south win
dow she saw a valentine as tall as
the house. 1t was solid gold and full
of presents.
Then the old lady took a solid gold
egg, and on top these words were
written: whoever breaks me will
have good luck
She broke the egg, and to her great
surprise she saw whole lot of fairies,
and each fairy said to her, "Since you
broke the egg we will each give you
a wish" There were ten fairies, and
then the old lady said
my wish is to be always young"
SO the fairies wished her youth, hap
piness, wealth, beauty and sweetness.
In the morning granny found it to be
only a dream. WILFORD ELLIS.
Azusa, grade g.
Your work is very good, Wilford, es-
pecially for boy of your age, but you
crowd your lines too much. Leave
plenty of space between words and
lines.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
LIVED INTERESTING LIFE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Away back in 1850, on st. Valentines
day, a baby daughter was born in log
house in the wilds of Beaver county
Pennsylvania. The place was iphab-
tied by all kinds of wild animals, al
though it was thinIy settled by people
There this Valentine daughter lived
till she was quite large child. Then
her parents moved to Jackson county,
Ohio. There she lived till after she was
married.
Her husband decided to go back to
Pennsylvania. She rode all the way on
horseback with a 3-month-old baby
(Which afterward proved to be my
grandfather), while her husband rode
another horse with two older children.
When they got to the end of their
journey they got a place about four
miles from where she was bodn. There
they built a house of logs which had
a big chimney on the outside. 1t was
made of clay, straw and sticks. They
lived there till they built a frame
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
A MlscHlEvoUs BROTHER

Dear Aunt Laurie:
The first valentine which grandma
remembers came when she was quite
young 1t was a beautiful thing, and
must have been very expensive, for
the work on it was exceedingly fine.
1t was left at the door by some un-
known person, who rang the bell and
Immediately hurried away. Grandma
never learned who the person was, but
naturally decided that it was one OF
her admirers, and as she had five
brothers it is not surprising that she
received good amount of teasing. .
She put the valentine away, as 1t
really was very pretty and she wished
to keep it. but the next year she hap
pened to look for it, probably to show
it to some one, when what was her
surprise but to discover that one of
brothers had taken it and sent it to his
sweetheart. Grandma was naturally
very angry. but it, of course, did not
do any good. CATHERINE BAIRD.
2047 East Ocean avenue, Long Beach.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
HONESTY WINS NAME
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie
My favorite story about Abraham
Lincoln is the one about him when he
was in the grocery store.
One day a lady came in the store
to get some tea. Lincoln weighed it
and gave it to her. In the evening he
found out that he had put a four-ounce
weight on the scale instead of a six
ounce weight.
In the evening after the store closed
he delivered the amount of tea due
to the woman.
I like that story the best because it
shows that he was honest and did not
want to cheat people out of what was
coming to them.
BY being so honest in all his deal
ings and treating all alike Lincoln
soon won for himself the name of
Honest Abe" GRACE DAVIS.
Sawtelle city school, grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13

There W ere several other valentines in
the package. My grandmother began
to tell me a story about the first val
entine she had received.
She told me to run over to her house
and see if l could find valentine in
the attic and the first thing | found
was n valentine which had her name
on it, 1 ran home with it. [ asked
her if that was the one she wanted,
and she said yes"
She told me her story She said that
that was the first valentine she ever
had received. She got it when she was
about years of aga.
RUTH LARSON.
Sawtelle city school. grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
ANOTHER SAINT VALENTINE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
One day when L was staying with
my grandmother the postmaster came
to the door. My grandma told me to
see what it was, and he handed me a
box. l ran and gave it to my grand
ma She opened it, and what do you
think it was?
1t was the most beautiful valentine
you ever saw. She did not know who
it could be from. She looked for the
name, but it was not there. AT last
when we opened it there dropped a
little paper. What do you think it said
on it? ITO My Dear Grandmother
from st. Valentine"
1t was from a grandson of hers who
had been named after st. Valentine
because he had been born on that day.
Grandma was so glad she did not
know what to do. She wrote him a
letter and told him that she would
keep it as long as she lived.
ROSE CARASCO.
sawtelle city school, grade 6. Age -.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
A LOVING GRANDcHlLD

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1T is getting near February A." said
grandmother ''Why is Valentine day
coming so sOOn?" said grandpa. "Why
Fourth of July was just the other
month, wasn't it?"
Grandmother had never had a val
entine and didn't think she ever would.
But her little grandchild, Dotty, knew
the day was near.
'Now, what shall give grandmother
for q Valentine?" she said She
thought minute, and then she ran to
see how many pennies she had in her
bank, and found ten bright ones
.'Oh dear mel" said Dotty. "Tomor-
row is Sunday and [ have to give my
birthday collection
Next Monday Dotty went to school,
and the teacher asked, 'What day is
week from today?" And they all said
valentine day" Then the children
started to cut the paper, paint the
flowers and pretty soon there was a
nice little valentine on each child's
desk.
Dotty went home with a happy face,
but she never said a word about it to
anybody-not even her mother.
In a few days it was Valentine day
About o'clock in the evening Dotty
said, Mother, 1 am going over to see
grandmother" In q few minutes
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DIDN'T RECOGNIZE
FIRST VALENTINE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
The first valentine my grandmother
received was sent by her daughter.
She thought so much of it that she
showed it to everyone who came near.
When she got it out of the postoffice
she took it home and opened it, At
first she did not know what it was.
The next day a woman came and
grandma asked her what it was The
woman told her that it was a Valen-
tine.
After that grandma went and showed
it to grandpa. Then she hung it on
the wall. She was so glad to get the
valentine she finally took it down and
put it in trunk.
The next year grandma sent her
daughters each a valentine.
RALPH CLAVELOT.
Sawtelle city school, sixth grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13

house, the first frame house in that
settlement
Shortly after that the Civil War
broke out. My grandfather did not
go, as he was not strong enough.
At the age of 65 years my great
grandmother's eyesight was nearly
gone. Some one told her to get white
vitriol for them. She made a mistake
and got blue Vitriol and put in her
eyes. 1t burnt the film off her eyes and
she never had to use glasses any more,
although she lived to be 92 years old.
She would tell her grandchildren about
the wild animals that used to bother
her parents when she was a child.
Now, at the death of this Valentine
daughter in 1892 rhe was survived by
three children out Of six, twenty-five
grandchildren and five great grand
children. Your niece,
LEILA CAMPBELL.
Lankershim age IA.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
JUNIOR INTERESTED IN AVIATION

Dear Aunt Laurie:
II was quite a surprise yesterday
when the Sunday Herald came to find
| had won first prize, and | would be
glad to receive the pennant at any
time.
We visited in Los Angeles two years
ago. | have an uncle and some cousins
there. A cousin has been sending The
Herald here to papa and that is how
I chaneed to see the Junior depart
ment.
| was so interested in the account of
the aviation meet and would like so
much to see it. We saw several dirig-
ible balloons while in Paris last sum
mer and also saw Bleriot just after he
crossed the English channel, but we
did not see any heavier than air ma
chimes.
You ask about the winters here. We
think they are Jolly when it SHOWS, as
it has this winter, and we can take our
handSleds and go coasting.
We walk to school in zero weather
and take our sleds along to play with
at noon and recess. We seldom have
more than three or four weeks of
sleighing, but this winter it has been
fine since the last of November.
| think will try in the limerick con-
test again.
Salem, Iowa. VERA HARTLEY.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13

nots on each side of the heart near the
top. This completed Clara's valentine,
and | am sure that it was very nice.
Clara slipped the valentine under
the door of Dorothy's house the. after
noon before Valentines day. The next
day Dorothy told Clara about the
pretty valen@e which she had re-
ceived the day before, and wondered
who so quietly had slipped it under
the door. Your nephew.
ARTHUR MOBILES.
S24 East Twenty seventh street.
Twenty eighth street school, grade BS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
REMEMBERED BY SCHOOL MATES

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Nv grandmother received her first
valentine when she was a young girl
going to school.
The night before Valentine day her
school teacher had announced that the
room would have valentine box the
next day.
That night each boy and girl met
at my grandmother's home and made
valentines, but they did not say or
hint who their valentines were for.
The next morning the pupils put their
valentines into the box which was pre-
pared for them. When the time came
TO open the box they found that the
teacher had given each boy and girl
a valentine which was very pretty.
Several of the boys and girls had
formed a committee and purchased
beautiful, large valentine for girl
named Sarah Imboten, who is now my
grandmother.
The valentine was in the shape of
large heart. 1t had -get-me-nots
painted around the edge. also a crepe
paper rufhe painted on it, In the CEN
ter was painted a large, red heart with
an arrow run through it,,
My grandmother has kept this valen-
tine until this day. She received it
about seventy-two years ago. and she
prizes it highly. From your niece,
HAZEL FOUST.
400 Almond avenue, Long Beach.
Grade 40, Long Beach high school.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
LITTLE GIRLS VALENTINE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Little Elsie Brown was sitting by the
big window i'm the paTlor. on st. Nalen-
tines day. She had asked mamma if
she might sit in this lovely room for
the afternoon
Elsie had just moved to this little
village home, for she had been living
in the mountains where valentines
We're never heard of. She had made a
few friends in the short two weeks they
had lived here. Her mother had told
her the story about old st. Valentine,
and how he cheered the sick and poor.
Elsie had sent her valentines that
morning, as she had a cold and could
not go out. She Lad never been given
a valentine in all her little life of four
years
As she was sitting there. with her
dolly, she heard footsteps on the porch.
She jumped up, ran to the hall and
peeped out of the stained glass VIM
dow. Johnny Jones was putting lit
tie white envelope under the door.
There was a loud ring, which fright
ened her so she sat down on the floor
with a thump. Johnny, hearing the
noise. thought he had better be OH his
way. After Elsie had recovered herself
she opened the door and brought in
her valentine. My what a lovely one
it was.
Markell ROSE WACHTEL.
Box 302, Ell Centre.
All of your story could not be pub
lished as you wrote on both sides of
the paper. Remember the rules next
time, Markell
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knecht, 11o Washington Street, RedIands, Grade

Some were cut out like hearts and
different shapes.
rs that the only valentine you ever
had?" l said. AS it was, l decided
to buy her d nice one. l gave it
ta her on Valentine day She was very
much pleased. She said it was the
first valentine she ever had, and it
was the last one, for the poor old lady
died But l was very glad 1 made
her happy. OLA SULLIVAN.
1110 East Fourth street, Long Beach.
Grade B7.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
GRANDMOTHER TELLS STORY

Dear Aunt Laurie:
one Valentine day my grandmother
was at my house. We were talking
when my papa came in with a large
package under his arm. He got it
through the mail. He laid it on the
table and 1 ran to open it, To my
great surprise I saw my name on the
top. When I opened it I saw beau
tiful valentine which had my name on
the back and was about six inches long
and six inches wide. 1 put it on the
table.
picked up another one which was
much more beautiful than the first.
This had my grandnother's name on it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
cHEERED SICK LADY

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Once there was an old lady whom
everyone called grandmother She was
very ill in the hospital.
One day, when 1 went to see her,
she told me story about when she
was little girl. She said the children
used to make their own valentines out
of paper, and wrote verses on them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-05-14
This contractor got results.

Some years ago contractor build.
ing railroad in warm climate was
troubled a great deal by sickness
among the laborers.
He turned his attention at once to
their food and found that they were
getting full rations of meat and were
drinking water from a stream near by.
He issued orders to cut down the
amount 81 meat and to increase great.
ly the quantity of Quaker Scotch Oats
fed to the men.
He also boiled Quaker Scotch Oats
and mixed the thin oatmeal water with
their drinking water. Almost instantly
all signs of stomach disorders passed
and his men showed decided improve
ment in strength and spirits. This con-
tractor had experience that taught him
the great value of good oatmeal.
Packed in regular packages and in
Dramatically sealed tins for hot
climates. So
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to take up his work with the Civic
Federation. The United Mine Work.
ors' organization never has been en-
tirely free of factions. and Lewis. as
did Mitchell before him, has had to
fight continually against enemies in
his own camp. But in the walk-out of
April /. he had practically complete
support from his own men and was
never better prepared to carry on a
fight against the operators.
Mr.. Lewis has taken an optimistic
view of the situation. In an address
TO 5000 miners at Belleville, ILL.,. the
day the strike began he said:
Don't be alarmed over the outcome
of this affair; don't be afraid that We
will not be able to sign up an agree
ment. 1t will all be over within thirty
days. Anyhow. this is good fishing
weather"
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GERMANY AND
CANADIAN WHEAT
LOOKS TO THE CANADIAN WEST
FOR HER SUPPLY.

A dispatch from Winnipeg, Mantle
ba, dated March IS, 1910 says: That
Germany is anxious to secure a share
of Canadian wheat to supply her i'm
ports of that cereal" The recent ad-
justment of the trade relations with
Germany has made it possible to carry
ON a Canadian-German trade with
much fewer restrictions than in the
past, and considerable development
of trade between the two Countries
is now certain. The great men Of
the United States are alive to the
Wheat situation in this Country now,
and there is consequently the deepest
interest in every feature that VIII
tend to increase and conserve the
wheat supply. With its present $780,
100000 bushel production of wheat
and all efforts to increase it almost
unayailing, and the rapidly growing
consumption of its increasing popula-
ton, there is certainly the greatest
reason for the anxiety as to where the
wheat is to come from that will feed
the nation. The United States will
be forced as Germany is to look to
the Wheatfelds of Canada. One
province alone raised last year one
eighth as much as the entire produc-
ton of the United States. and but
twelfth of the wheat area has yet been
touched. The Americans who have
gone to Canada, are to-day reaping
the benefit of the demand for Canadi-
an wheat and they will continue to
Join in the benefits thus reached for
great many years. Splendid yields
are reported from the farms of that
Country, and from land that the Gov
eminent gives away In 100 acre
blocks, and from other lands that
have been purchased at from SIP to
SIS an acre. John Munter, near Eye
brow, Saskatchewan, a former resi-
dent of Minnesota says:
Last fall got over 30 bushels of
wheat to the acre and had 80 acres of
it; also 20 acres spring breaking on
which had fax of which got almost
20 bushels per acre. Had 20 acres
in oats and got 20 bushels per acre
and 500 bushels potatoes on one and
three quarter acre, and can therefore
safely say that had fine crop and
am well satisfied with my homestead"
He is considered but small farmer,
but he will be one of the big farmers,
some of these days. There are many
others, hundreds of others, whose
yields were beyond this, and whose
average under crop was vastly
greater. The story of the experience
of American farmers in the Canadian
West is long one. The time to go.
would appear to be now, when splen-
did selections may be made, and
where land can be purchased at prices
that will be doubled in couple of
years.
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Treatment for Lump Jaw.


Lump Jaw is due to fungus which
is usually taken into the animals sys-
tenn in feed consumed. Lump jaw is
liable to affect the glands of the
throat or the bones of the head, writes
Doctor David Roberts in American
Cultivator. 1t is not advisable to keep
an animal thus afflicted lingering in
a herd. On the other hand it is ad-
visable to either treat such an animal
or kill it, as such animals invite dis
eases into the herd, owing to the fact
that they are so reduced in vitality
that they have no resisting power.
A remarkably large per cent. of such
cases can be successfully treated If
taken in time by opening up the en-
largement and washing it out with a
strong antiseptic solution, like five of
carbolic acid in water, and putting the
animals on a tonic. In this way the
afflicted animal is not only saved, but
the entire herd is protected against
disease.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-05-14
The Irish of Shakespeare.

An Englishman and an Irishman
were having an argument on the sub
ject of Shakespeare. Il defy you,'
said the former, ito find a single Irish
character in the whole of his works. -
We'll, can give you two, at all
events" replied the Irishman. Miss
O'Phelia and Cory O'Lanus." He
forgot Hamlet's intimate friend, who
stood beside him while he was con-
templating his uncle in devotion, and
observed: Now, would do it, Pat,
while he is praying. "-Springfeld Re
publican.
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FEET NOT EQUAL TO FEAT
Miss Eleanor Sears, Boston Society
Girl, Fails In Attempt to Walk
1903 Miles.

San Francisco.-Even the athletic
muscles of Miss Eleanor Sears of Bos-
ton were not equal to the task of
walking 10S miles from Burlingame to
Del Monte in SO hours. She lost her
wager of 5000 at Gilroy. CAL. when
she gave up the tramp and went to
bed after having travelled sc miles in
20 hours.
Miss Sears is somewhat chagrined
at having lost to her friend. Miss Jen-
ME Croker. and declares that with a
little preliminary training she could
easily make the trip.
The friends who accompanied her
on the walk in comfortable automo-
biles and on easy running cycles
praise her pluck and the spirit which
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-05-14
LEWIS HAS A HUGE TASK
President of the United Mine Workers
Leads 10000 Men in Coal
Strike.

Indianapolis. Ind. = When 100000
union men quit work in the bitumin-
Gus coal mines of Pennsylvania. Ohio.
Indiana and Illinois on April 1, her
culean task fell upon the shoulders of
a man in this city.
The man who was forced to take up
the great burden had often shouldered
others and was prepared for it. Thorn
as L. Lewis. president of the United
Mine Workers, is the leader to whom
these 100000 men look to conduct a
campaign that will bring them the ad-
vance in pay they demanded Mr..
Lewis succeeded John Mitchell in the
presidency when Mr.. Mitchell retired
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Care of Horses Feet.

II the horse already has defective
feet keep them carefully trimmed and
shod if necessary. The soft hoof
should be shod and reshod every six
or eight weeks in winter where the
the year where the roads are rocked
or graveled. By keeping the horse
with poor feet properly shod it will
do good service without loss of time.
But it is best to breed for good feet.
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Miss Eleanor Sears.

kept her on the road until she reeled
with dizziness. 1t was only their en-
phatic protests that kept her from
walking until she dropped
They declare that her feat Of cover
ing sc miles in 90 hours is remarkable
enough for woman and sufficient
proof of her declaration that Newport
men are "mollycoddles" in comDari-
son to the women
Miss Sears is daughter of MIR. and
Mrs. Frederick r. Sears of Boston
and has many athletic honors to her
credit. She plays polo better than
many men, swims. rides to hounds and
runs her own automobile