Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-02-10

paFadeo all over country churchyards, by the light
OF the moon, and held serious converse with owls
and hobgobllns in spirit least if not In letter.
In fact. it was quite the proper thing in England
for iovelorn lass to HE herself into the church
yard at midnight and as the clock struck II run
around the church and play tag with herself
among the tombstones, repeating anon the en-
Tightening ard touching little doggere: Il SOW
hemp seed, hemp seed | SOW; he that loves me
best come after me now
Imagne-just imagine If you cana certain
type of twentieth century maid conducting herself
in a fashion SO violently at variance with the In
strnctions of the Ladies' Hum Journal and other
Anthony Constocks of feminine propriety! 1t
cannot be ilnagined-not even in ones widest
dreams!
1t might have been all right for her ancestors
simple folk at best-but not for her! Nothing OF
that sort in ner family Instead, it's flowers and
bonbons and real grown-up" presents for hers
the aforesaid flowers at one dollar per, the bon
bons done up in fancy, silklned box and the
presents anything that poor William can be per
suaded into coming across with from a iabot 20 an
aeroplane.
Ii would be pleasant, indeed. to picture a GER
tain Miss st. Valentine of the present all in a
futter over what the patron saint Of the day will
bring her 1t appeals to the mental appetite to
picture all the fair the same gentle, shy re-
firing creatures of former days. AS matter of
fact however such is by no means the case.
OF course. the average wholesome. mentally
healthy girl is interested in St Valentines day.
OF course, she believes in it. But there are, 1t
must be confessed many who find buc little mys
terry about Il for them. IL Alfred sends girl OF
this sort five-pound box of bonbons, you bet
your last dollar he is going to let her know in
some way that it came from his, not from Tom or
from Will And if she, in turn, sends him tie or
a package of shaving papers inclosed in vaien-
tine cover you may be equally sure she will mad
vertenty see to it that the young man is aware Of
the proper person to thank,
But not all our girls are like that--not by
great deal There are some still who enthuse
over tinsel and gauze bearing dancing cupids and
bleeding hearts. Tender verses still appeal to
them, and old favortes still popular. The
rose is red the violet blue; sugar is sweet and
are you" still causes huttering of the heart and
q telltae blush II had a heart and it true;
it few from me and went to you Treat it as well
as / have done for you have two, and | have
none" is still certain OF eciting an ecstatic sigh
from its fair recipient. But the lad VINO viii
ry off the candy this st. Valentines day and put
one over on the other chap is the broth of
boy" who manages to secure dainty behowered
mssive bearing the words 'Oh, you kid Maybe
they have been manufactured. and may be they
I have not. They ought to be- at all events.
And don't forget little Jane, the dear ten-year-
old mite who won't trust her valentine even to
the POSTWAR but insists ON delivering them her
self In person She is in somewhat of quandary
as to whether she had better remain in her
at the first ring OF the bell St Valentines eve,