Evening star., 1925-02-08
St. Valentines Day Once More
Ceora TIisW (iveA Ateniono a Juvenile Parv.
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A S Lydia Pinkham, the we'll
~ know imaginative poetess. 40
"A often used to say, "'Tis love
4 a that makes the world go
round in circles" Amt that
y fact. though?
1 was remarking on 1t only the other
night to George, that's my husband,
while he was reading the evening paper.
I find this is a good time to talk to
Geo. on account he generally let's me
go right on without answering back.
Well. anyways, l says great good
ness dear! Here is 1t pretty near St.
Valentines day again, I don't know
where the time goes. it don't seem
like eight years since you was send
ing me valentines all made up out Of
layers of lace paper. says. I don't
see that style any more, I guess they
now use all that paper in the edges
Of candy boxes!
And Geo. says yeh, uhuh!
Well. I says, I never could rightly
make out is this St. Valentino they tell
about a old guy with long alfalfa. like
Santa Claus. or is he the young feller
about Juniors age, you know. the one
who goes around even in February
dressed only in blue sash, a pair of
wings and bow and arrow. Which
do you think he is, dear?
And Geo. says, say, I see that block
where HaShem's Beanery Is has been
sold to Joe Bush's uncle for thirty-two
thousand smackers, whatter you think
of that, Ell? BY which could easy de-
duct that the days when Geo. was capa-
BILE Of spending Il his lunch hour trying
TO decide whether to buy me the one
with the two hearts pierced by an arrow
or the one with the clasped hands and
the dove was over forever, and l
couldn't get them back any more than
r i = Iyr,xy
dress
Well, naturally 1 thought. oh well,
nobody in this house thinks about val
entines any more only me, and guess
| better keep my secret. But / was
wrong, on account a few minutes later
who would come In but Junior and he
had a real old style comic valentine,
and he says hey Ma, see what I'm
conner send my teacher. amt 1t funny,
all I'm conner put on 1t Is guess who?
dyer see?
Well, naturally I saw, and took II
right away from him and explained
where no nice person would ever send
one of them hideous things to anybody.
Then l says, now Junior, just to show
YOU what beautiful idea ST. Valen-
tino's day really is, l will give
valentine party for you and your
7 FIGURED where 1T would be real
- good fun to get up this party for
the kids, see, and so I asst IA darling
little children, and when Y had done
so, why / realized where in most
cases their mothers would come along.
and Of course I couldn't let them
women make no cracks about the
party / give, so ! would have to make
it elaborate
So the next time I went downtown
I got me some rolls of red crepe
paper and, first thing, cut a lot of
red hearts out of II, see, to hide about
the house for the kids to fnd. And
then 1 cut up tho remainder Of the
crepe paper Into favors.
1t took me the remnant OF the PM
and this was one of them rare occa-
sions when q person can 60 cutting
paper up into little pieces and not
risk having the family call the asy-
1um and say please send down the
wagon. Yet just why the making Of
crepe paper favors for IA young
sters amt considered a sign of in
sanity, I dunno. 1t had ought to be,
as I thoroughly felt by the time
had glued everything together, in
cluding my scissors and my back hair.
Well, 1 had always been known for
my original ways with party. see,
so L wasn't conner break any record
this time. 1 had strings of hearts
hanging from the chandelier, and all
these little favors, such as candy bas-
kets, hats, etc, and l made up lot
of little heart-shaped cakes with pink
crochet icing on top of the white