Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — SOME JOLLY VALENTINES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOME JOLLY VALENTINES.

These Will Occasion Much Pleasure, Especially ta Little Folks, Though the old-time sentimental observance of St. Valentine’s Day has lapsed Into “innocuous desuetude,” it is still the •cession of much pleasure and mirth. Little people, especially, enjoy the mystery as the season and the pleasant mystification of their playfellows, and if the fcamor indulged in,is of a kindly nature, tnd not so personal as to wound, happy earts can eDjoy a very gay time. An evening can be very merrily passed

In making the humorous valentines which are here illustrated. The materials are Tery simple; some rough water color paper ar thin cardbo? crepe tissue paper of tow ribbon, a of cellnloid and some* clothes .pins, pewter spoons, a little nar-' tow ribbon ,a sheet of celluloid and some

pieces of red cloth or flannel arc all that is needed. For No. 1 a piece of cardboard or water color paper, a little unore'than twice the length of a pipe stem inches wide, ia folded double, and a hole large enough to thrust the pipe stem through is cut in the center of the fold. The stem is held in filace by a strip of white paper pasted over t on the 'front fold. Paint as grotesque • face on The pipe as you please; may have full play here. Gather an inchwide strip of red tissue paper into the form of a hat brim and paste on the top of the hcad; r the trimming and crown are

made of a very narrow strip of the paper put on in loops. ' A frill of the tissue paper forms a collar round the neck, and a tiny bow finishes it in front. The lettering on all the valentines, may be done in carmine Ink, in water *bolors or with gold paint. For No. 2, “a ease of spoons,” a card 7 Inches squared needed. Paint the “old

man in the moon” »with a thin wash of yellow ''ochre pn a pale, cloudy blue ground; two bright .pewter spoons have grotesque faces painted in the bowls, and are tied on the card with'bows of bright

ribbon. Paste a narrow strip of the same oard board on the back of the carato support It Wee an easel. The heart-shaped cards (Nos. 3 and 4) may be from 5 to 7 inches long, and •honld have a atrip of card pasted on,the

back to support them. Cut a small heartshaped piece of red flannel, and the shoe sole from a bit of kid, and pasts on No. 3, doing the lettering with gold paint or carmine ink. No. 4 is decorated entirely with*the pen or a brush, though a piece of a pasteboard measure could be pasted on instead of drawing it. No. 5, the clothes pin card, is one of the most amusing. A face must be painted upon the head of the pin. and a bit of grayish wool Is pasted on the top for hair; make a hat of pink crepe paper, and wrap a piece of the paper around the pin for a gown. The arms are cut from a strip of paper or cardboard like the card upon which it Is to be mounted. Paste the strip on the back, and cut tiny hearts out of red cloth or flannel and fasten with paste on the ends of the arms. The card

should be .about 5 inches by 7; and when the lettering is done the clothes pin doll is fastened on the card, with a bit of white ribbou tied as a sash ip front. No. 6, the card with the inscription. “A token of sentiment,” is made pf a piece of celluloid 3% inches long, by wide. A' bright, new cent is fastened on near (he center with glue, and a wreath of purple violets is painted around it. The lettering is done with gold paint, and the edge of the card is cut in fine saw teeth. To any ingenious, young folk carrying out tft>se suggestions an infinite number of ways for varying, changing and expanding them will occur; and the results of an evening’s work will very probably he quite a plensant surprise to the workers.— Demorest’s Monthly.

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