Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06

tousled-and his hands and face are uanswer.
able testimony to the fact that the rising genera
ton occasionally gets back to Mother Earth even
in the private city streets pessimists to the con-
trary notwithstanding He has been having a
great time st. Valentines night Is almost as
much fun as Halloween! Vaentnes7 Sure. he
been giving valentines-but they aren't exactly
the kind Sister Lu even little Jane received.
He's presented the almond-eyed Celestial down
at the corner with most touching reminder of
how he looks when he irons shirt-and he's had
a thrilling hairbreadth escape from the aforesaid
washee-washee. who couldn't see 1t as a joke at
all. Pshaw, Ghinaman never could run anyway!
Then there was old Peanut caruse, who kept the
fruit stand on the opposite corner. Poor. ex-
citable old Dago! II there hadn't have been quite
so many little American devils In the gang he
might have run one of them down and gotten his
revenge But, II he did what would become of
his peanuts and his smooth. sleekly-poshed APP
Piles in the meantime. with all those other little
pests swarming around and yelling like Comanehe
Indians?
And grandma and grandpa They sit quietly
by I'm their big armchairs and smile complacently
at the enthusiasm Of the youngsters In their
hearts are memories Of other st. Valentines
eYes-'way back In other days, In the dim and dis
tant past, when they both we're young and the
fever of love beat strong In their breasts. There
are valentines for them now, for they are old
and gray and their course Of life is almost run
and somehow. ST. Valentines day is day for the
lap? Can 1t be? Yes--it is--ifs a yaIentinel
Grandpa has remembered! II lis not of those
gaudy-phnted modern ones OF elaborate manu-
facture; no. but old-faBhloned OF many
layers of carved and curiy-cued paper framing
a tiny picture of the Madonna and bearing the
simple message: BE my valentine" It is the
kind grandma knew and learned to love long
years ago when grandpa, then fine young
dandy az was to be found in all the country
round came sparkling her. She smiles happily
49, So NA aAa~a aAo
all that she feels-and remembers
In the morning the mail man comes loaded
down with more valentines. Indeed, II seems just
like another Christmas to little Jane, when she
beholds his pouch full to overhowing. But he
can't see 1t In that light at all. or In any other
light except that he has been Juggling that blamed
old pouch for ten squares. leaving something at
almost every door, and the darned old thing is
heavier than when he first started out with 1t.
Christmas 10 bad enough. and the people who
made these fool holiday stunts ought to be salts
fed with plagueing mail men once year; but
instead. they don't give him time to recover from
the Christmas avalanche Of mail before they jam
all this crazy Valentine foolishness down his
throat. After that pouch has gotten to re-
spectacle, convenient size-so that 1t feels more
like mail pouch and less like ton Of coal
the mail man may appreciate the sentimental side
of the day. He may recall the flushed, eager
faces that fairly hurled themselves almost
through The door in their eagerness to snatch the
mysterious letters from his hands lie may re
call his own boyhood when he himself both gave
and received valentines with childish glee and
couldn't understand Why In the world. this oil
all mornings the mail man was SO late. II so he
smiles good naturally and remembers that every
task, however 0nerous II may be has its own re
ward when viewed In the right light
Watch your newspapers on st. Valentines day
for one particular news ltem-eloping couples
who chose the day because it is especially CupIda
Some years they are many In number. and some
times but few and far between. But there Is al
ways halfdozen at least Cupid sees to tha
himself And to tbs lovers themselves. II is
day OF ali days for each gives himself to the othe
as a really traly valentine for life.