Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — HIS VALENTINES. [ARTICLE]

HIS VALENTINES.

To Maud I’ll send a valentine All tinsel, bows and gilded lace; She's such a young sweetheart-of mine gifts like these will be in place; She’ll dance for joy, because, you see. My sweetheart Maud is only three! To my old sweetheart, grandma dear. I’ll send a parcel, trim and neat; Contents I need not mention here— Something to wear, or drink, or eat; No matter! She’ll consider it The valentine for her most fit. For quiet May I’ll buy and send A pretty book to read betimes (She my good comrade is, and friend); To saucy Lil some saucy rhymes; To Ethel flowers; and then—ah, well. To her whose name I will hot tell, (Whose tender eyes before me shine. Whose sweet face haunts me, angelfair, I dare not write a valentine. I breathe, instead, a trembling prayer (So dear she is,' sb far apart). Add send her, silently, my heart! • —Woman’s Home Companion.-