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Delta Phi Club.

0AO HI OIVD.
 Mrs. Frank Ezell was hostess to the Delta Phi Club last evening when sue entertained them at the home of ME- and Mrs. Lee Fox on South Olive street Miss Irene Langford and her guest, Miss Susan Bell, of Benton, were the complimented guests. The analr was given on the spacious lawn, .uaue very attractive with Japanese .antefns and furnished for the conN. .ort Of the guests. Games and contests furnished amusement. Refreshments were served at a suitable hour. among those present were Misses ,nay Ware. Philadelphia; Florence noeain' Emma Sorrells, W. Nj. Tom es, Allie Banks, Lillian Philpot, Beu- ,@u walker, Jo Hart. Jean Hart, nsa laaly Mccoy, Ruth Ruthertord, Ruth uteeory' of Hot Springs; Emma Monk marguerite Raymond. Susan Bell, of peu'on' and Irene Langford; Cliff roster. James Mcclellan, Hunter At- Ainson, Ernest Whitelaw, Ed Knox, LOT, rom Madding, Robert Loving, Ed "iiiiams, Robert York, Atticus Pen- sfass' Preston Carter, Albert Mad. u.ng, Melbourne Mccain, John Ton. e.' Hufus Hudson and Crawford Hud- son and MT. and Mrs. Frank Ezell.
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NWTCE.

Joe CurrO and Frank Foti of thD Temple Fruit Co.,, wish to announce that they have sold their business tn Jas. Paschal. All persons having anu account against us please present. same, also all parties owing us wiR please pay either Joe Curro or FraaE Foti. 8-17-6E.
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,., ScIte0i Picnic.

e.r "s. Sunday School pupils of the .n,o I ov Memorial church will give 1"" ":o ot Jones' park on Wednesday, p.t r,ct 31. and the little folk antici- Aas s.e gay time on that occasion.
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Persons contemplating the erecG. lon of any building should consult with Mitchell Seligman. architect. Cits. sens Bank Building. tx
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We are still in the repair buss. ness. We can make your old furnt- ture look like new. Try us. TeG- blrom Eur. Co.
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A. A. Harvey and Robert Tender son, Of Monroe, La, are the guests of MT. and Mrs. s. A. Whelan. on Fifteenth avenue
 Summer Porch Club.
 The Girls Summer Porch Club en- loyed a most refreshing outing at Forest Park last evening. Mrs. J. P, Angel chaperoned the eight young ladies. The party left late in the afternoon and went to the park. Lunches were spread on the grass after which the young ladies devoted their eftire time to the Plying Jin- n.y. and the Figure Eight. The party returned early in the evening. Those included in the party were Misses Julia Williams, Lizzie McFadden, Mar tha Angell, Jessie Whyte, Mabel Glasscock, Christine Murphy, Cleo Wolf, of Batesville, and Willie Lee Daniels.
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Shinn.DeGrOOt,

Russellville, Aug. 23.-Miss Edna Shlnn, of this city and Dr. c. E. De- groot Of Muskogee, Okla, were unit ed in marriage by Rev. o. G. Black well of the First Christian church at clock yesterday evening. The cnurcn was beautifully decorated and was filled to it's capacity by friends UT the young couple. The bride is one Of the most popular young wo- meh Of the city, and is a recognized leader in social circles. She is from one or the oldest and best known families of the state. The groom is practicing physician and surgeon.
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SOCIETY
,5oyc os fife King.

p.4s -ss daughters of the King will 'h .1sdav afterocon at 1 o'clock - thurca.
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House Party

The following party left yesterday afternoon in automobiles for the country Club where they will remain until Friday on house party: Mis- ses lone and Inez Hearin, Gertrude Ivy, Evan Goree, Selma Martin, Liz zle Boyce and Leyl Cross; Mrs. J. W. Martin and Mrs. M. c. Cross will act as chaperones.
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Ride to Country Club.
 Mesdames Holman and Hearin will
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

ed, however, In the Valentine day mail.
Either the identity Of the sender is
kept a profound secret or is indicated
only by tiny initials, which are Of no
possible benefit in tracing the origin
Of the missive. Consequently there is
nothing for the dead letter officials to
do but to either destroy these dere-
licts Of the Valentine day mails, or,
If they be deemed Of sufficient value,
to set them aside to be disposed Of at
the annual auction sale at which
Uncle Sam sells to the highest bid
ders all the unclaimed articles found
In the mails.
Incidentally 1t may be noted that 1t
is very seldom that any person ever
writes to the p~ostoflce department to
inquire regarding valentines that have
gone astray. Many people make In
quiries from time to time with refer.
ence to packages which have failed to
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ZuzE NxEVzOgE

sages hidden in its depths.
Transformation pictures consisting of crude draw
ings In ink or at best a more or less artistic render
ing in water color, preceded by many years the trans
formation valentines that were introduced by the
Germans, once the manufactured valentine became an
established institution. In these old valentines of the
before and after" order a favorite subject was that
Of q bachelor sitting disconsolate and alone in his
cheerless home. Upon lifting a flap of cardboard
there was disclosed by way Of contrast the happiness
and contentment that might be his in a home pre-
sided over by a devoted wife.
One of the valentines Of this class in the Baer
collection seems at first glance nothing more than a
commonplace representation of the exterior of a
church, but a shifting Of the scene displays the inte-
rior of the church with the bride and groom, best man,
maid of honor and other attendants. The best part of
the scheme is that the young lady-her name was Flora
who sent this keepsake a century ago went to the
trouble to duly label each person represented in the
enhancing scene, so that the recipient presumably had
advance information as to all the details of his own wed
ding.
Some idea of the extent to which the custom Of ex-
changing valentines was carried Is indicated by the
great number of different designs shown in the Baer col
lection above mentioned. After about 1880 the practice
of preparing valentines at first hand seems to have gone
rapidly into decay and the last of the valentine writer's"
bears date Of the year mentioned. Following this the
manufactured valentines increased rapidly in cost and
pretensions. From the lace paper CONNECTIONS, which
were a gradual evolution-and which, by the way, have
remained perennially popular until the present time
the development turned to the production of silk and
satin valentines beautifully ornamented in water color.
A glance through the art gallery Of old valentines
gives a clear and accurate idea of the various changes
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

reach the proper destination, but ap-
parently the senders of valentines
either do not know that their tokens
have failed to fulfill their mission or
else accept the loss philosophically.
For the imaginative person there is
opportunity for speculation as to how
many romances have been nipped in
the early stages because Of the valen-
tines that never anne. Finally, one
more cause Of the straying of valen-
tines in the mail is found in the nu-
merous attempts to send such souve-
Mrs through the mails with INSULT
cient postage. Many little folks, for
instance, seem to be under the i'm
preston that a valentine In a sealed
envelope will be carried for one cent
Instead of two cents. If the envelope
bears the address Of the sender 1t can
be returned for more postage, but, as
above explained, such clew Is seldom
given in the case Of valentines and
when the valentine is forwarded to
It's destination postage due the per-
0 to whom 1t is addressed-perhaps
~suspecting Its contents-often refuses
to receive 1t and then, of necessity, 1t
Is turned over to the dead letter office.
The dead letter office, the final rest
ing place of the unidentified valen-
tines, is a very busy institution. Some
thing like seven million pieces of lost
mail are every year sent to this insti-
tuition to be examined and its experts
or blind readers" are wonderfully
skillful in deciphering the true mean
ing Of incorrect and m~isspelled in
scriptions that would prove absolutely
battling to any ordinary individual. At
the dead letter Office Uncle Sam main
tains perhaps the oldest museum In
the world-a collection of the queer
things that have been found in the
mails. Much money Ia found In the
letters that 90 astray. 1t totals as
much as $4,000 a year in coin and
currency, to say nothing Of an aggre-
gate Of about a million dollars a year
! In checks, drafts and currency.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

that accumulate in all of our post
offices at the valentine festival. In
innumerable instances youngsters
send valentines-particularly the COM
ic variety-to persons whose initials
they do not know and regarding even
the spelling of whose names they are
in ignorance. Similarly there is often
a woeful lack Of detail in the adj
dresses embodied In these hazy in
scriptions. All these irregularities
make for difficulty in delivering the
mail on st. Valentines day. Some of
the bathing products Of the instinct of
mischief the letter carriers or local
postofice officials are able to decipher
and deliver to their proper destina-
lions. but many Of these mysterious
souvenirs must needs be sent to the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

Muscat is famed as the hotbed Of
smugglers In the Persian gulf, the
nearby desert tribes being regularly
supplied with arms despite the efforts
Of the British patrol. But to the
writer, reared on a Missouri farm, the
odd antics Of the cows Of Muscat
seemed nothing short Of freakish.
They actually eat fish. No grass
grows, 80 the willy Arab teaches his
family COW to subsist on dates and
dried fish. The milk tastes queer to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

a foreigner, which Is probably why
the Arab likes 1t. He also claims 1t
10 richer and makes more butter, but
most ridiculous Of all is the deception
practiced on COWS when the calves
are "weaned." A calfskin, or some
times a goatskin, 10 stuffed with rags
and tied not far from where the moth
er COW is anchored This efigy Of her
late amented offspring soothes her
nerves and keeps her from going
dry" according to Arabic tradition.
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StSAJ ~ 49, "SbAoN"ND
the senders rather than to any inefi-
cheney on the part of the postal Il
thorities. Nevertheless, when one
pauses to consider the characteristics
of the extra mail that floods the postal
routes in m~id-February 1t does not
seem so strange that a larger share
Of it misses its destination than would
be the case with an equal volume of
holiday mail at other seasons of the
year.
The most oommon cause of failure
on the part of the postoffice officials
to deliver mail is found In the pres
ence on the puzzllng pieces Of mail
matter Of illegible, incorrect or INSULT
Gent addresses. Such faulty mail
matter is numerous enough at all
seasons of the year and it is easy to
understand that it reaches food tide
along about Valentine day. In the
first place many of the persons who
send valentines wish to use every pre-
caution to conceal from the recipient
the origin Of the remembrance. To
that end they attempt to disguise
their handwriting and resort to other
expedients, all of which make for
illegible addresses. At valentine time,
too, many little folks p~atronize the
mails on their own initiative and
some Of these youngsters are far from
skilled in penmanship.
To this same influence-the contri-
buttons Of the juvenile portion Of the
communities to be attributed the un-
usual proportion of incorrectly and
i~nadequately addressed pieces Of mail
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
class and Meredith did not like the

class and Meredith did not like the
accommodation.
why don't you go first, sir, and let
me go third?" the servant asked.
mo-" said Meredith, I'D rather
have your company than travel first-
class alone"
Sometimes" Mr.. Cole said, when
| worked for him first. he would write
all o. nothing. He never seemed to
\ about his own comfort. He used
to sleep at first all the year round in
the little chalet near his house, and
he would get out Of bed every morn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

sky.blue rose with pink leaves-isn't 1t artistic?
And you've seen those that are just a row of pen
dants, all busily pending from a twisted and tasseled
silk cord, haven't you? Great! On the top card, which
is shaped like a scalloped pancake, is painted a beau
tiful little girl with the scarlet dab that had been meant
for her lips striking her on the end of the nose or on
the chin and with golden hair that has blue high lights
On the next pendant (Which is square and hangs
about two inches below the other) is a picture Of an
Oklahoma landscape with the pyramids of Egypt and a
Dutch windmill In the distance.
The one just below is a cut-out figure Of Queen Maria
Teresa or the Venus de Medici or Katherine de Milo or
Mrs. Maybrick or some early Christian martyr.
Still below hangs a twoinch heart Of red, with cupids
on it, and below that continues a string of lesser ones.
So, when 1t gets right down to cases, and to the kind
of evidence that would be accepted in a competent
court Of law where nobody was corrupted, which are
the comic valentines?
Don't all speak at once-Strickland w. Gillian.
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tines in America, and indeed the most notable private
or public collection Of the kind in the world, is the prop
erty of Mr.. Frank House Baer, a wellknown resident of
the state of Ohio and a prominent railroad official. Mr..
Baer, who has had the means to indulge his unique fad,
inaugurated his hunt for valentines some years ago and
has covered all quarters of the globe in his search. This
premier valentine collector now has more than 1000
specimens in his old art gallery and many of his prizes
have cost him a pretty penny.
A~ntedating all forms of manufactured valentines were
the valentine writers"-books of specially prepared
verses and sentiments designed for the use Of SWANS
and maidens of a century and a half ago, who must
needs prepare their own valentines. These first aids to
the sentimentally inclined that have been preserved in
the Baer collection have such suggestive titles as 1.-THE
Bower Of Cupid" 1.-THE School of Love" "The Ladies'
Polite Valentine Writer" "The Satirical Valentine Writ
er," and "Rhapsodies for Gentlemen Who Wish to Ad-
dress Ladies in Sonnets."
The oldest and most valuable valentines in existence
those in the Baer collection are believed to be the
only ones of the kind extant-are the cut paper valen-
tines. These are carefully folded and delicately cut with
sawtooth edges, the average love token of this kind
being so arranged that its unfolding discloses a con-
tinuous succession of penned sentiments One Of these
cut paper valentines, bearing the date 1890, is formed
from a sheet of paper about the size of a lady's hand
kerchief, folded into squares of about four inches. 1t
was originally sealed with the representation of a heart,
Particularly quaint coneeits In the line of old-time
valentines found in this collection are those which rep
resent in each instance either a single flower or a clus-
ter of CAV posies, fashioned from tissue paper somewhat
ON the order of modern artificial flowers. However,
these ancient counterfeit blooms were SO slit into lattice
like meshes that the pulling Of an attached thread will
cause each flower to unfold, disclosing sentimental mes
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Which Valentines Are Comic?

We read a lot of vigorous censure Of comic" valen.
tines. But why, in the name Of pigment, doesn't some
one arise in meeting and tell which is the comic" kind?
1t is generally understood that the hideous distortions
of form and feature, accompanied by insulting and semi
obscene %doggerel, are called comic. But that sort of
thing isn't comic at all. Those are the saddest creations
possible-rankly and f~agrantly and Intentionally dis.
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Faithful Companion Of Meredith
Great English Author, In a
Reminiscent Mood.

nj a aowerdecked cottage In the
village Of West Humble lives the man
who for 30 years was the faithful
servant and devoted friend Of Mere
dith. A mile away at the foot Of Box
Hill is the house in which the poet
and novelist lived for a large part Of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

which have taken place in fashions during the past CEN
fury and a half as pertaining to the costumes of both
men and women. The distinctive styles of the periods
OF 1880 and the civil war are shown, as well as the ear
lier epochs. Especially significant in this regard is an
old valentine bearing date of 1905, in which a sailor lad
is shown bidding a sad farewell to his sweetheart. The
costume OF the tar is interesting as exemplifying the
toys worn by naval seamen early in the history of the
republic.
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BOTH FRIEND AND SERVANT

his placid beautiful life. Frank Cole
was much more than Meredith's gar
dener; he was his body servant and
general handy man, and In the poets
later years took him for his daily air
ings. First Mr.. Cole supported his
master with his arm, then came a
bathchair period and finally a donkey
chaise. He also accompanied "the
master on the latter's in~frequent
journeys. They always travelled third
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ing to let me In until | suggested that
he would save himself from catching
cold, II he gave me a key. His only
Injuries were good wine and good CT
gars, and he was a splendid Judge Of
both. Every now and then he would
have q bit Of luck and get hold Of
some extra precious wine, and this al
ways delighted him."-London Core
spondence Of Denver Republican.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

dead letter Office at Washington-the
ultimate destination Of all the waits
Of the mails.
Even in this final clearing house for
lost letters, the unique characteristics
of the Valentine day mail prove a
handicap in its disposition. Articles
sent through the mail at other sea
sons of the year usually contain some
indication as to the identity of the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10
&x#x#x#x#&x#x
mzmnaF ALL the different and

ALL the different and
distinct classes of mail
that pass through Uncle
Sans postal channels in
the course Of the year, it
is probable that none
show so large a proper
ton of loss en- route as do
the valentines. That so
many valentines go astray
is, however, due almost en-
tirely to the negligence of
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ReslnoI Ointment Cured When Nothlna
Else Would.

have had a breaking out on my
neck every summer with something
like Eczema, and nothing ever cured
1t until ! used Resinol.
Barbara Carpenter, Ogden, s. G.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

sender II such information has not
been given on the outside wrapper.
Thus when the wandering parcel final
ly reaches the dead letter office and is
opened there, there is every chance
If Its proper destination cannot be de-
termined, at least the identity Of the
sender can be learned and the postal
orphan sent back for better address
ing. No such clews are to be expect
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-02-10

gusting. Surely the truly comic val
entine is the kind which exhibits a
lot of absolutely meaningless combi-
nations of color and shape and fill.
gree and gingerbread and which car
ries it all off with a conscious air Of
being Just too beautiful for anything.
Who except a maker of valentines
for the trade v sat down and imag-
ined a ~four-arched heart with silk and
celluloid blisters on 1t, arranged
tastefully about q ~f1gleafess card
board Cupid sitting on the back of an
accordion-plaited tissue-paper swan,
which he was guiding across a tinsel
desert by leans Of a ribbon snaffle
bit? Eth? l wonder what they irri-
gate their designers with before they
hand 'em the scissors and paint pot
and glue bottle and turn 'em loose
for that sort of thing?
Then these blood-red pansies a foot
across, with more celluloid overs or
'em, turned back from a nice empty
spot wei which is pasted, with a
hinge, a lot Of paper insertion of the
kind they have in the edges of cigar
boxes! And when you lift up the
cigar-box paper (cut in designs like
those mother used to cut In the shelf
paper) you read underneath, in old
English type:
I think it would be mighty fine
If you would be my valentine.
Isn't that deep and original and
thrilling?
The the lapels of celluloid-what
would the valentine perpetrators do
without celluloid?-are fastened back
at the points, each with a little string
of tinsel arranged in a loop, while on
IL bou5 80 4l1 Laval a." ,ainHaa -
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First American Paper Money.
The first American paper money
was made In l740.
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All things whatsoever We would that
men should do to you, do We even so
to Decentralization.
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Iel the Dealer you want o Lewis Single
blnder cigar for its rich, mellow quality.
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cient valentines as a fad or a pastime. A
recent canvass of the leading museums and
libraries in the United States disclosed the
fact that none of them possess so much as a
single specimen of the valentine of our
great-grandmothers' period, although the
British museum in London boasts the own
ership of a number of early valentines.
Tho ono nntahla collection of old va1an.
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Even an old hen may appreciate q
tcothsome dainty.
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o CLASS of antiques is of
greater rarity to-day than the
valentines of We olden time.
Nor is this strange, for filmy
creations of lace paper and
scrcn pictures could scarcely
be expected to stand the wear
and tear of a century or more
and survive, as does old fur
niture or pewter or brass.
Possibly because old valentines
are so comparatively few in
number and so hard to find,
only a very limited number of
persons have ever attempted
to gather collections of an