Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — St. Valentine’s Day [ARTICLE]

St. Valentine’s Day

That St. Valentine’s day is not far away is announced by the sudden appearance in the show windows of innumerable varieties of valentines. All kinds of people are to be accommodated, from the small snub-noeed, freckled faced urohin who wants ’em two for a cent to send to tbe teacher to even up some fanoied grievance he had against her, to the callow youth with a love lorn aspeot who sighs like a fuinace and picks oat one for five dollars with a sentimental verse on it, and whioh exhales perfume like a bed of p : nks when the dew is falling, to send her. And there are the kind that one barkeeper is expeoted to send another not to mention those for policemen, firemen, ancient maiden ladies, fat, and lean people e'e,