The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-02-08
WHEN YOU
CHOOSE A VALENTINE.

WHEN YOU
CHOOSE A VALENTINE.
The man who is looking for some
thing to send the lady of his heart on
st. Valentines day may welcome a
few suggestions OF course, there
are always cards and the conventional
bunch Of violets, but the ardent lover
will look for something more than
these. He will want to bestow some
thing SO distinctive on the lady of his
heart that she shall single him out
from among the other men who favor
her.
I rather like the idea of the boy
who, having worshipped little neigh
Dor across the way from tiny girl
hood, sent to her on her seventeenth
birthday a bunch of violets backed
by a half dozen American beauties.
The verse that went with them was
an echo of their childhood days:
Roses red and violets blue,
These are sweet and so are you"
I am sure she laughed over the
verse and liked him better because
he had chosen no more elaborate
rhyme.
Another boy selected a quaint paper
knife and on his card quoted the dog
Dsrel:
eff you love me as I love you,
No knife shall cut our love in two"
Then as an appendix he added:
please return q penny for he knew
her pet superstition that any sharp
article given as a present might divide
a friendship.
Sweets to the sweet was the con-
ventional way in which another
adorer addressed his lady love when
he sent her a box of candy. Hiding
among the chocolates she found a sill
yer bonbon box to hang on her vanity
chain.
There are many dainty books which
breath sentiment and are especially
appropriate for the day of the good
saint
If one does not wish to purchase
the modern poetry, which may have
only f1eeting value, there are the col
lections of old English lyrics, which
are charming, and which. with a card
on which there are darts and
hearts," will give supreme satisfac.
ton.
For the girl who plays bridge or
Eve hundred, a pack of cards with the
queen of hearts placed on top and an
accompanying message which says,
"To the Queen of Hearts" will have
the value of uniqueness.
The old custom Of sending a valen.
| of
seems to have lapsed. Today a man
card goes with the book or candy OF
flowers, yet / rather like the air OF
mystery which used to hang over the
valentines which came to me, and q
tactful and resourceful man will al
ways find ways of letting his lady
know that he has remembered hel
without tagging his name to his sen
timental souvenirs.
The girl who wishes to send a val
entine to man must be more circum
spect. She cannot indulge too much il
sentimentality. Some quaint concei
or pretty card should be the extent O.
her generosity.
If she can give a humorous twis
to a verse, she will strike a man:
fancy more than if she INDUCES tot
much "blisses" and kisses"
Last year a bit Of rhyme went thu
! rounds and was used by clever lit
tie friend of mine who had lived thret
! months In q boarding house with I
j man who was soon to go away. Sh,
! liked him and knew that he liked her
She found a card on which one littlt
violet was painted. Beneath this sh'
| wrote:
T send to you a violet,
In token that I'm glad We met
/ And hope that We already yet
| May once again together get.
It pleased the man nightly. Their