THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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Saturday, JFebruarj 15, 1908.
M Heart Goei Out to You.
Across the spaces of the night
My heart, O love, goes out to you,
As doth a homing bird in flight !
You are the crown of all delight,
To happiness the only clue,
Across the spaces of the night !
By swirling depth, by dizzy height,
1 fare upon a course as true
As doth a homing bird in flight !
Your smile it is my beacon bright;
Your heart the port I haste unto
Across the spaces of the night,
As doth a homing bird in flight !
0 love, if you wander afar,
Do you dream that you leave me behind?
My heart owns no bar,
But flyeth as fleet as the wind,
As swift as the light of a star !
Are you here, O my love, are you there,
In valley, on hill-slope or height,
Your going I share
Your coming doth yield me delight
Who fare wheresoever you fare.
1 am more than a vision; am more
Than elusion, evasion or art,
For I have crept into the core,
Yea, into the shrine of your heart,
Forever to dwell and adore !
It lie Could find You, Dear.
However bleak the sky.
However dark the day,
St. Valentine, with steadfast eye,
Will find his wintry way.
It matters not how low
The clouds hang on the hill,
St. Valentine through blinding snow
Takes his long journey still.
I used to marvel, love,
At this insistent saint;
Though gray the skies above
His heart was never faint.
But now I understand
His courage and good cheer.
Who would not tread the wintry land
If he could find you, dear?
Dig- Deep and Pay Ten!
There once was a caddy named Ben
Who pinched a golf ball now and then,
But, by the look of his phiz
You'd feel sure it was his
Dig deep in your jeans and pay ten!
OLDEN-TIME VALENTINES
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XCEPTING only Christ-1
mas and Easter, St. Val
ine's day is the oldest of
all our holidays, for it
has been celebrated since
the third century ; origi
nally designed to do honor to St. Valen
tine's memory. Eventually the element
of secular love was introduced and, later
on, it was made an occasion of honor to
Cupid, until now the Master of Hearts
may, popularly speaking, almost claim
the festival as his own.
England is the country in which the
sending of valentines has found most
favor, perhaps, for the reason that while
the British swain is quite as amative as
his cousins on the Continent he does not
possess the saine agile tongue, nor is he
as bold in his declaration of affection.
He therefore early adopted the custom of
using tender verses or delicately suggest
ive pictures for personal advances. Home
made verses and original drawings de
picting or in some way indicating the
warm desire of the artist to be forever
united with the object of his desire were
the forerunners of those manufactured
pictures and chap books of " appropriate
rhymes" greatly in vogue between 1780
and 1830.
How extensive was the demand for
these gems of literature and art can be
concluded from the fact that two thou
sand valentines and sixty chap books
have escaped oblivion, and now form the
collection of Mr. Frank House Baer of
Cleveland, Ohio.
The earliest of the little books in this
unique collection was published in 1797,
thus antedating by some years the speci
men preserved in the British Museum.
"The Annual and Universal Valentine
Writer," for such is its title, opens with
the following effusion :
Hark, the birds sweetly sing
To welcome the spring.
Each bird is a-wooing.
The doves are a-cooing;
In pairs how they happily join.
Like tbem, let us woo,
Be contented and true,
For this is St. Valentine.
The last one of these books appeared
in 1830, and since that time St. Valentine
has by degrees withdrawn his shrine
from public view, to set it up in the nur
sery. The decay of sentiment, which
began to be pronounced in the last gen
eration and is scarcely fashionable among
the practical young lads and lassies of
today, causes those ingenious missives,
which in 1830 were considered to be the
expression of manly feeling and maiden
tenderness, to be regarded as antiquated
curiosities. Because present day fashion
despises the simplicity of the old time
valentine, the shy or keenly sensitive
suitor dares not venture to test the re
sponsive temper of desired sweetheart by
delicate, insinuating verses, nor may a
languishing maid tempt her tardy sweet
heart to become more eager by encour
aging him with a valentine to speak and
be successful. Thus many timid hearts
are left lonely and aching by the decline
of the privileges once accorded this pop
ular saint's day.
Judging from the number and diversity
of the rhymes contained in the sixty
pamphlets now in Mr. Baer's possession,
all the poetasters in the United Kingdom
must have been kept busy for weeks
composing these gems. The tradespeople
are furnished with bold and eager verses
which not only tell of love, but pleasingly
advertise business and with appropriate
puns bristle. The convenient little vol
umes leave no tradesman who can hold a
pen unprovided with eloquent copy in
which to speak his love. The staymaker,
the dyer, the oil man and the weaver and
countless others are helped in their woo
ing and even the schoolmaster is not neg
lected. In tender verse he declares :
Tho' I have many pupils, yet
From thee love's lessons I must get.
My Case is Vocative the same mood
Be thine that must be understood.
Pretty poor poetry for a schoolmaster,
but a fair sample of its kind ! In "Every
body's Valentine" even "a person of low
occupation" is made to woo with calm
dignity.
Altho' my occupation's mean,
I wish my girl to know
On Sunday I am very clean,
And seem more high than low.
We cannot help wishing that the fol
lowing prepared answer was speedily de
spatched to soothe his heart :
The high and low all 'tis allowed,
From Adam do arise;
And there I am not so proud
The humble to despise.
The choice rhetoric and lofty sentiment
of "Hymen's Rhapsodies for Gentlemen
Who Wish to Address Ladies in Sonnets"
is a strong contrast to " The Quizzical or
Satirical Valentine Writer." prepared for
those revengeful and disappointed crea
tures who took advantage of this day to
indulge in cruel personalities or vent
their spite for rejected affection. Fancy
receiving this missive with your morning
chocolate ! It is dated 1803, " To a Lady
Who Squints":
Thy charming peepers must delight;
They yield a most convenient sight;
Convenient! I do not deride,
For you can see on either side.
One does not wonder that the lady's
indignation got the better of her poetic
metre when she answered :
Cupid, it is plain enough,
Never dictated such stuff,
Or, by Venus, if he did,
He'd have been severely chid.
The titles of these old pamphlets are
most alluring. There is "Cupid's Festi
val," "Cupid's Budget," "Cupid's Cabinet
and Court of Love," "Polite Valentine
Writers," "Rhapsodies and Pastimes,"
and, finally, select verses for the "Belles
and Bucks Who Throng to Hymen's
Court.'
The true labor of love is visible in a
homemade valentine which is one of the
gems of Mr. Baer's collection. Ingenious,
ly and industriously cut out with a pen
knife and then tastefully colored, no text
was needed to define the depth of senti
ment.
Among the cherished old papers of
many families could be found reminders
of the time when the celebration was a
serious matter, but these documents
rarely become public property.
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