The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-14
Presbyterian Missionary Society.
Cupid Overworked Today.

Cupid Overworked Today.
Cupid--iu the person OF a tired let
ter carrier wearing the uniform of
Uncle Sam-was very busy today.
Despite the burning OF big Massa-
chusetts valentine factory. where
Cupid had his headquarters. there
was no apparent lack of amatory
messages in this city, If the postmen
are to be believed
All over the city the uniformed
representatives of Cupid footed their
whistles without discrimination at
the door OF palace and hovel. bear.
ing missiVes which have been quite
the same since the time they were
crudely carved on rocks to now,
when men are lords of language.
St. Valentine. u very generic name
indeed. since there We're fifty-two of
him, and in no instance is anything
mentioned in the lives of the esti.
mable parsonage to suggest that any.
one was the particular patron of
those who loved one another. and
were therefore full of happiness and
JOY. SO as to the st. Valentine. who
is really responsible fer all the de.
licious heart futterings of Febru-
ary's fourteenth day. there T. much
of doubt.
delve in books the livelong day and
even burn the midnight oil. say that
in certain slipshod time the good
. Saints name became involved with
an old French word. "galentin
which meant little gallant. or n
little lover. and hence its import
TO those who dwell in the rosy lana
where King Affection reigns supreme.
Somewhere, though. in those fine
old times called the Middle Ages,
! folks in merry England. in Scot.
/ land and in thel and of France a.
day to these whom they deeply and
sincerely loved. For flowers then.
as always. were believed To be in
tended as symbols of affection, since
they were the embodiment of God $
first thoughts. Aud afterward, when
the earth grew sad unto despair and
mothers placed flowers on the graves
of their children. and. later still
when nuns strewed them on the al
tars OF the high priest and the
people flung them in showers upon
brides as they left their fathers
honest was all the samc-the
sign OF love.
Be all this as it may. o. yc OF
little faith in the tender things OF
life, it still remains, that just now
begins and always has begun. save
in some lands OF ice and snow, tn,
shining OF that mystic purple lgh'
In the eye OF youth and maiden. mar
bingers OF that springtime, whei
the young mans fancy turns L
thoughts OF love"
Happy those, then, who in thi
city. hundreds of years and hun
dreds OF miles removed from tn
time and abiding place OF st. Va
entne, received today some toke
IN LIT
press to the rapidly throbbing breas
II may have been only some tin!
half-withered flower. or some hug
bouquet of blooms, brought befor
their time into the still winter-boun
! world; IL may have been a heart {
red, pierced with Cupids arrow an
T scrawled upon It's back the letter
= OF the loved ones name, or a heal
! of diamonds worthy to be the pa,
of ransom for an Old World king
yet was the thought which went wi,
each the same.
For, While the wheels of sigt
and death go round, so shalt the
be to me, and ! 10 thee"
And, There are three things on
worth while in life-birth. death an
love-and it's love which makes IL
other two possible"
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Valentine Party.
Miss Ozella Pugh very delightful