Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13

TO be a orphan. I hope you will like
this valentine. because l picked 1t out
myself" ~
vround studded with red hearts, bore a
picture Of little hoy sitting on boat
which was a big heart, rugged up win
a sail. 1t came from a little sirI IN
Hdabo and on one side OF 1t was copied
the verse
There is a lsssie IN your town.
"a, a ss.e. her er name. and where's her hsme.
/ diura choose to tell
IF YOU can't guess who I mean ! will
saw that it's the lassie who lives In the
White House. I am a little Scotch girl.
and that's why I like this pome MAYBE
the nitcher on this valentine amt egg
zactly Appropriate. for It's a little hoy
and I'm a little girl. but I COULDN'T nnd
any little girl floating on heart boat
and as liked the idea of a heart noat-
ing along like is shown on the pitcher.
1 thought I'd get this one. ana eesspiain
to you that I'm not little boy. out
little girl named Mabel. l have COUSIN
whose name is Edith like yours. she is
going TO send you a valentine. too. only
later. I hope you will answer ours
BOTH
One little lad. the other year. sent q
valentine of his own designing. 1t was
of a heart. and decorated with cupids.
These he had colored with crayons. The
result was startlng-six little pop-eyed
cupids standing in a row. with even
their faces colored purple. black. yellow
and green Each held forth gingerly
a shattered heart.
One little girl from Tennessee sent all
the valentines which she had received
last together with the
following note:
."These valentines are all that 7 got
in our valentine box last year ats at school
too. We often study about the war
and you in school. I told the children
in my class that I was going to send
/ guess I'll get more. and when you get
INV this years valentines you will know
that lots of little boys and girls in
Tennessee are grateful 1t, to S you fSr not
my father told me you Will go down
in history as something. I forget just
what but something awful nice. be-
cause of the way you have acted anou'
war. or. / mean about no war at all
With much love. / am a small ad-
mirer of yours"
One of the odd valentines to reach
the White House is made up OF two
boxes, heart-shaped, fastened together
with wide red-satin ribbon. Each box
contains a nice. firm apple, and to the
bore the words:
You name your apple core for me-
And I'll meme mine for You,
So II the seeds count up to Love,
Well know it's coming true
Dozens of the valentines are con-
spicuous because Of their inappropriate
nature. For instance, one is card
board doll valentine, in the shape of
wee, fat boy in ovcralls. standing at
the edge of a creek. with a can of wig
CLING worms and f1shpole made or a
twig, fishing hearts out OF the water
A small pile of hearts are heaped up on
the cardboard shore, and one large
catch" is dangling on his line. The
verse underneath is:
I've been fishing bout a week,
Dangling my bait in this ere creek:
I've caught q heart but what OF thar.
When you don't know where your girl lives AZ.
This helpfully limiting valentine might
have been just the thing for some love
lorn chap to send to the object of his
fond affections, but why 1t should have
been selected as an apt one Tor the
President of the United States must re-
main an unsolved riddle.
A valentine which aroused the mirth
of even the dignified assistants In the
ture of little boy laboriously paint
ing a heart on a piece Of paper: On
the ground beside him is pile OF
school books. and standing little dis
lance off is a small girl who gaZes
scornfully in the direction of her young
swain, as she declares according to
the verse up in one corner):
Please don't waste your time and paint;
I amt your valentine. No. amt.
, To this valentine was attached .
letter, signed Herbert:
. THE little girl who sent me this goes
, to my school. She is in my grade 1
, sent her a ten-center. and got this
from her. 1 am sending you a good
one along Of this. but only thought
I'd send this. too, because it must be
real funny, as every one laughs when
I show it to them, but 1 don't exactly
see the joke, as it looks like a snub to
\ me. but I thought maybe as you are
having so many troubles just now
I about fights in all parts of the world
. that it wouldn't hurt you none to get
little laugh out of it. too"