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mwmm •HE McHENRY PLA0DEALER. McHENRT. aL HOW KOREANS HONOR DEAD * i>! >?*sj 'W> •'M*/ % hi a W- •VS 1 •2 'M r*: ~hS^' W ' .V%^: K': Pi* .f : : > 2 3 ; ; Oi.it t/ sl^" "*• "••' Jiy - s*-y'- -r VALENTINES OF OLD Seme Recollections of the Time When People Took the Day, , Most Seriously. WTO ESTERS olrr IN FORCE tbyyul for thoMot Pari; but Some "•' Realty Pretty Veree Can Be Found la the Treasured Hoard* . • .mtr/s ' #f Colleetora, <- ' FRANCES BURNfk • . v. -' Toa aure witty, you are pretty;*».qj Too are aiiiglft-what a pity).,. 1 am single for your sake,' »*U a handsome couple we (kail make? ' Such doggerel, a little over a cen- >go, hack writers used to dash off to Include In the funny chapbooks tkiruugn which rustic swains were Instructed how to make love on SL. Val- «• tine's day. -That was before the eta of the commercial printed valentines. Gentleflsr~, sad ethers, still penned their own or some "boughten" sentiments, on or about the 14th of February, and tremblingly dispatched the caligrapbic production to the cherished "fair." Often OQtside help In rhyming was sought. The Gentlemen's New Valentine Writer," "The Bower of Cupid," "Cupid's Annual Charter," "The School at Love," "The Ladies' Polite Vaiendat; Waiter"--these are some of the A»rr wwer A omr unLe vAuttfnwr <lor HIM . .4 souvenirs of the period when all valentines were hand made and home- •pdb. About a generation later--that is. In tf|e' thirties of the nineteenth century --came the real thing in valentines-- 4tbe deliciou8ly, hopelessly, helplessly eentlmentai effusions of the age of autograph albums and daguerreotypes. During these decades of British and continental romanticism, when the 0Se arts all together dropped to the lowest depth of aesthetic degradation they had ever reached, the art of valentine making flourished us never before or since. When the collector of today says "valentines" he means •hbee of the funny forties. Great Valentine Industry. Especially in England, the home of <ke arts of the heart, a great industry grew up around the valentine, employing a multitude of workers from poets to die sinkers. Everybody gave everybody else a valentine, to delight or to insult Maids and bachelors, widows and widowers all looked eagerly for the postmail on St. Valentine's day. There were special valentines for #»ery profession and trade, usually •Bore or less appropriately designed and worded. Even the poulterer, for example, posted to his languishing ijffcir" such lines aa t.s.Z* ***. - j V I do wish for my own picking i '<;1; To 'ave a delicate sweet chicken, ":r For thy sake I'll be quite spruce,- \ * Though I majriw called a goose. T£\ - • it is these mid-century English val- WtlneK that have in the past few y trs jPWigiu ibe fancy of collectors of the old missives, as readers of a chapter on ("A Box of Old Valentines" in Virginia Roble's "The Quest of the Quaint" may have noted. In Cincinnati Frank H. Bear has formed a collection of valentines that is Internationally famous, with upward of 2,000 specimens, representing such makers as Kershaw, Marks, Dobbs, Martin, Gilks, Peck, King, Richardson, Hughes, Bysh, Hodgson, Kidwell, Tegg, Dean, Bailey, Harrison and others of London; Lloyd of Edinburgh, Leleux of Calais and Riedel of Nurnberg. Churches and towers rise In the background of many of these February romances. In one, at least, issued over the name of "A. Park, London," the village church Is all the picture-- just a fine, substantial late Gothic structure quite literally depicted. To the receptive maiden it must have come as a rather commonplace if apparent symbol of her suitor's hope for early nuptials. Seemingly he might have sent something with a little more of the color of love. However, probably he knew the temperament of the lady. r f t The Message Revealed. / JnSt th« bare church and it imperfect, for that flap over against the southern aisle has not been properly pasted down. "Why, look, it was intended to be lifted." You raise it, the loose cardboard, and behold, you are looking into the warmly lighted church interior where a pretty wed ding, just like the one we httpe to have. Is in progress. Was there^-evef! a sweeter conceit? To match the sentiment of the picture these dainty lines: Yes, here at last young love and I , The Gordlan knot of love shall tie. V / And throbbing thus, my bosom *wells. To listen to the marriage bells. -- '.jr Oh! hasten fond one--haste to mi 'In thine own truth and coastan<S,. < Concerning the maker of this churchwedding valentine, and of many others which are much sought after by collectors, Miss Roble has gathered a bit |of information. He was located at 47 Leonard street, London, and made many valentines about the time of Queen Victoria's wedding. His productions are generally "printed in color pover a black and v.h'tc- foundation, the deep reds and blues and a green running at the edges as if put on with a full brush. The scene is always set in the center of a large sheet. The lady is always retiring and coy. The gentleman wears a low waistcoat, a high stock and Victoria whiskers, alas for high romance, while Cupid looks on like a small English schoolboy Intent cm a new game. Park valentines are not beautiful, but they are well worth securing and a few are decidedly amusing." Cupid and a Merry Widow Much in several of the valentines the famous collection somehow ret! minds one of the art, or artlessness, of the beefy English ladies who semiexpose their charms to all weathers among the forsythla bushes along the facade of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Wholesome beef-fed Briton, the fact Is, asserted itself even in the most ethereal manifestations of nineteenth century romanticism, in such valentines as the, one of a plump blonde lady with Merry Widow hat who complacently permits three cupids to paddle about her neck and shoulders. Nothing in the wording of the piece suggests that this buxonl middle-class lady is a widow of thlrty-flve, but one rather gathers that from her appearance. She is very "east county," very Nordic in build. Her lover, on the other hand, one suspects from his identification of fairies and cupids, is a dolichocephalic Irishman, a kinsman of Lloyd George. Good luck to his suit This, at all events, is his Invocation: , ^ Fairy, for her my passion move, ; Whisper 'neath her ringlets that I Hiifc' Fairy, upon her molded bosom press Thy rosy lingers to yield a happiness. "Grandma" In the Picture. JCan, the deceiver, comes in for t. swat from grandma ("truly, she hersejf" had suffered !") In a valentine in which a tall, fragile, willowy, underfed and presumably tubercular damsel in low, vell-nigh Improperly low, bodice*, fills part of the room with her bulging crinoline. w The old dame sits in a chili reading from "The Sorrows of Wei> ther," or "Don Juan" or other religious literature of the period, and thus begins a homily which Is interrupted and contradicted by the young man sending the tender missive: Dear girl, whilst listening, to a lover's vows Beware deceit--save when a youth Like me unfolds his heart to spouse Thee In conjugal links of truth. Somebody, somewhere, in those Ten* nysonian days,"discovered with Brown-, ing thiit "Love is Best," and thus communicated with the loved one under the caption of "Return of Happiness :M The heart that lay In secret woe Has borne love's arrows rankling theMi Now raised by hope's deceptive glow. Now sinking into duii despair; That heart alone can duly feel. The mad'nlng Jcy, the ecstatic bliss, Of knowing that their love's returned-- This, this. Indeed, is happiness. No love so wonderful as that first experienced, maintains another vepsi- Weird Ceremonies Commemorative of the Departed One Oescrioed by American Woman -Travels* 2^. little reond-faeed nua frodi the RUhnery up the mountainside above the monastery was giving a commeiaora* •lye service for her dead parents. We went Into the temple about eight o'clock. It was almost dark Inside. 'The one large standing Buddha was dimly lit by four tapers set In high stands. Before him on the altar stood 13 copper plates piled high with different kinds of breads and above these were heaped cakes and fruit between the artificial flowers. To one side were the puns from the nearby nunnery with shaven heads, and baggy white trousers and long gray robes exactly like, the priests. The faces were indistinct in the dimness. Hour after hour we sat cross-legged on mats. All around us was the sound of Intoning "Kwanzean Posal, Kwanzenn Posal, Kwanzean Posal, Kwanzean Posal," with slow genuflections, till the head touched the floor, slow risings, then genuflections, endlessly repented. The abbot struck on a wooden gong, faster and faster came the calls to Kwanzean Posal; the incense from the censer filled the room. The reiteration of the liturgy grew almost hypnotizing--then suddenly when I felt that I could bear It no longer, the neophytes carried in numbers of little tables, one for each priest, lighted a candle oh each, spread out one of the holy books and retired silently. The candles brought the faces into sudden relief,against the darkness. At a signal the bonzes opeued their books; each chose whatever passage he wished and began Intoning. each voice at a different key and rhythm and words, yet all blending together into a twisted strand of sound. And over the genuflecting monks and the funny wrinkled roundfaced nuns stood tile one dim golden ^uddha • with folded hands. At two o'clock In the morning beneath a westerning moon the priest, led by the abbot, filed out and performed what looked for all the world like a solemn snake dance in the mfddle of the court We were each presented with a large pink lotus, and then all matched to a lower terrace, where In the shadow of the gateway they read for a last time the names of the dead, and then consigned the heaps of flowers to the fire, that writhed like a tqrtured dragon spitting out sparks of burning petals high In the 'air.--Elizabeth * J. Ooataworth, In Asia Magazine. PAYING DEBT OF GRATITUDE £o|<u*d NiBy Might Occasionally Re ^/Intemperate, B« 8urjly Hlf ^ •Hjgs4' Hem* Was Right. One of the trumpet players in tftf Philadelphia orchestra--and a good one, too--Frederick Wagner by niune. Is a justice of the peace . In the suburbs. ' \ In the discharge of his duties he tries to temper justice with mercy, and sometimes he has his reward, as the following incident goes to prove: The other day Mr. Wagner, in pass- Irffe out Market street, found in an antique shop a pair of andirons of the stfrt he had long coveted. He started to carry hljs purchase homeward, but before he had gone two* blocks he found It pretty heavy. Therefore he accepted the offer of a negro, who opportunely happened along, to relieve him of the burden. When they came to Mr. W agner's • home he started to look for the proper stipends, bat the negro Interrupted him. »"No, sah, boss!" said the negro. "You ain't got 'nuff money to pay me. I wouldn't take nothin' from you no-, how. "Why, desft you retnembah dat iflggah was taken op'befoh you 'count o\ bein' drunk five weeks ago? I'm him J "'Stead of puttin' me away foh ai week you gave me breakfast an' two bits. So you can't pay dis hlggah ] nothin'!" ~ if i * #-'r •.Z.iV* LOVE'S LABOR LOST fler, whose tines on "First Love** a^ company a pretty picture: Like as the moon's subduing light. Thrown on the ruin, tree or stone, t WtU give to objects drear and 'dull, A beauty which is all their own; Just so Kirst Love a radiance throws O'er every object on Life's stream And gives its own bright coloring To all that's touched by its pure beam. In such manifestations on one day of the year of love and sentiment like that which In- our time Miss Mildred Champagne has ably edited dally the temper of the remarkable Victorian age may be studied closely. As for St Valentine's day itself, whose observance reached its apogee about 1850, readers of English literature need not be reminded how frequently It Is mentioned by the poets and romancers from Chaucer downward.. SUSPICIOUS It% lo» vt Edwin, bat it surely looks like the one I sent hint last year --cleaned up." Hall 8alnf" Valentine. , Ball to thy returning festival Old Bishop Valentine! Gteat is thy name in the rubric. Thou venerable arch fiamen Of Hyni<*n. Like unto thee, s- $uredly, there no other mltered v ther in the calendar. Chronic Constipation is as danger*- ous as disagreeable. Garfield Teal Cores It Adv. ri * ' Believe It or Not! Friends of S. F. Lockbrldge, former state senator, and James t. Nelson, both of Greencnstle, are tilling a story regarding the strange actions of hogs on their farms last summer. Mr. Lockbridge went to his farm west of Greencnstle and on arriving at a field In which were some fat hogfc he saw the animals jumping into the air. He Investigated and found them after big, yellow-striped grasshoppers. The same story is told of Mr. Nelson, except that his hogs were so wild over the grasshoppers that he had to remove them to another field where the •provender was not so plentiful, in order to prevent the hogs from running off the fat faster than-he could put It on by heavy feeding. ( The grasshoppers were as large as a man's thumb and were In such quantities that the hogs by exerting them- , selves could catch enough to make their efforts "worth while."--Indianapolis News. : ' Qr • - Bones or Pins. • There are various kinds of protection exercised by governments for the people. A new one lias developed In the state of Maine. The law forbids 'any one who did not himself catch It, to sell a pickerel. The fish ore not allowed In market and even the man who caught them must have done that "legally." It Is well-known to people, who, for fear of starving, have eaten pickerel, that their bodies are made up of 90 per cent sharp bones and 10 per cent flesh. When it comes to a choice between frying the family pincushion and eating a pickerel, most people prefer the pickerel, but It Is evident-that the legislators of Maine not mean to expose their constituents to the peri I ^of the diet when it can be avoided. XThere Is no law In Maine against selling pincushions. -•-Hartford Courant. ese . Painful End. 'yimmie," said Aunt Nell, "I tea**? you reading very intently last night.; Did the styry end happily?" "Naw," said Aunt Nell, "I saw 'Diamond Dick,' and pa came in and. caught me just as I was finishiq,',, the; last chapter." • - three brands fceaied in air-tUtfrt1 Easy to fliia it Is on sale everywhere. Look for* ask for* be sure to set WRIGLEYS The Greatest Name Ui Goody-Land ,-f •!; *4'6 V if*. RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR. To half p'nt- of water add 1 oz. Bay Rum, a small box of Barbo Compound, and oz. of glycerine. Any druggist can put this up or you can mix it at home at very little coet. Full directions for making andf use come in each box of Barbo CompoundJ|>; It will gradually darken streaked, fadedf" gray hair, and mnke it soft and glossy. Itr ^ill not color the scalp, is not stj£ky or greuy, and does not rub off.--Adv.rft/ Just So. ,tv "You told me that the garden feteiy of tlife Crushleighs was hanging fire.' ;^Well, they were suspending Chinlanterns .over the lawn vbtt J passed there." SEALED TIGHT [PilO U B LE MIN I^ I I I I KEPT RIGHT '-id* • The Flavor Lasts „ ** -v \ , <V Full Knowledge. Sister Mary--"Father, what Is a Colt, revolver?" Little Brother--"I know, sis; It's a little horse pistol." WHY 0RU66ISTS RECOMMEND SWAMP-ROOT Woe many years druggists have watched With much interest the remarkable record maintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician's prescription. Swamp-Root is a strengthening saedt cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and bladder do the work nature intended they should do. Swamp-Root has stood the test of years. It is sold by all druggists on its merit and it should help you. No other kidney medicine has so many friends. Be sure to get Swamp-Root sad start treatment at once. However, if you wish first to tist this great preparation ?seod ton cents to Dr. Kilmer & -Go.."Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing b$ lure ami •srtlcs this paper.--Adv. i-' w Still Waiting* u "Gone out of literature?" "Not entirely. 1 got a job In a shipping room marking packing Louisville Courier-Journal; r-Vl is as profitable as Grain i la Western Canada Grain Growing fs a profit maker. Sheep and Hogs brings certain success. It's easy to proa, can raise 20 to 45 bo. of wheat to the acre and buy osm Land at $15 to $30 Per Aors --Good Grazing Land at Mueh Loos* Railway and Land Companies oflar unoaaal I seekers to settle In Western Canada and enjoy her I . . „--. for the purchase of stock or other farming requirements can be hai st low! The Governments of the Dominion and Provinces of i wan and Alberta extend every •ncourasement to the 1 You can obtain excellent land at low prices on easy terms, and get high fstese for vour grain, cattle, sheep and hosa--km taxes (nooe cm. -- improvements), good markets and snipping facilities, free schools, churches, splendid climate and sure crops. For illustrated Utsratan. tzmim, doacriptfcxiof land* for nit Is Saskatchewan imd Albafa. rwhrced railroad taUs, Me., apply to of immigration, Ottawa, CSnarta, or C» J» Broocbton. Room 412.112 W. Adaas Street. Chicaco. 1IL| |L V. Maclnnea. 176 Jefferson Aveaue. Detroit, Mich. Canadian Government Agents Not the 8ama. He--"Here is a highly Interesting article on the Basques." She--"Oh, they went out of style ages ageb? < . Signs of It' •; ' i ' ""This Toots like a baby squall coming up " "T wouldn't be surprised the way the boat is rocking." Tie average man wastes a lot of time telling other people things they don't care to hear. »v May Revolutionize Shipbuilding. ^ Remarkpble claims, which may have far-reaching consequences In the shipbuilding world If substantiated, are bel »g made for a new concrete mixture, with which it Is proposed to build vessels that are much lighter than those now being built, and yet far more durable. Its ingredients have not been iqAde known. The assertion Is made ^-ktiiat vessels built of the new material will be one-fifth lighter than those of wood, and at the same time more durable than those of steel. It appears that the discovery can also be made use of In applying a covering for concrete ships now under construction, for the purpose of giving"them greater power to resist impact. a Watch Out for Him, Senatore. "jAmes," said par with that stern - admonishing look so becoming to fathers, "befpre I get home tonight I want you to carry In a few buckets of coal from the shed, split some kindling for your mother and take my shoes to the repair shop." "Say, pa," returned James with great indignation, "you're a fine person to be workln' against, child labor, ain't you?" Just then James wished be hadn't said it. He got immediate proof that actions make small boys yell louder than words. • . • * grows thin many Pat's Whfi eattouts. In a small village in Ireland the mother of a soldier met the village priest, who asked her if she had had bad news. "Sure, I have." she said. "Pot has been killed." "Oh, 1 am very sorry," said ihe priest, "trfd you receive word from the war office?" "No," she said. "I received word from himself." The priest looked perplexe<^ and said, "But how Is that?* "Sure," sh^sald, "here Is the letter; read it for yourself." The letter said, "Dear Mother--I am now in the Efoly land." A lawyer draws up a will In snch a way that he can see a second fee when it is contested. j' Thirteen. Thirteen was the sacred number of th* Mexicans and the ancient people of Yucatan. Their week had 13 days and they had IS snake gods, - There may be cases where a wife Isn't good enough tor him. Ml we can't recall one. The trouble with the easy lob that the road up to it is usually loaf and rough. r A woman always loves those wftis -admire her, but she doesn't alway# love those she admires. W. N. U., CHICAGO, HO. 7-1»1|li 1: * » ^ •SfU No Escape for Hii^ On a recent evening our WttTe niece went by .pushing a long homemade autocart, on the hood of which perched her small brother, unwillingly and much frightened, as we vcould see. I don't want to ride %ay up here," he kept crying amidst the cart's zigzag careenlngs, but fate was against him, for her reply was wojnanly and to the point: "You'll have to, Buddy. You're the " Oilcago TMhime * >-'• .. * * A > . . . v \ > • ' • d Nervous Mothers Should Profit by the Experience of These Two Women H. Y.--*1 am the mother of four children, snd for nearly three years I suffered from a female trouble with pains in my back and side, and a general weakness. I had professional attendance most of that time but did not seem to get welL As a last resort I decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound which I had seen uuVcitiS6u lit the ne^papcrs, and m two notiofid ft marked improvement. I continued its use and am now free from pain and able to do all my housework."-- Mis. B. Mk gniy.nfflirat sat Weiss Street* Buffalo, N. Y. m Portland, Ind.--"I had a displacement aod suffered so badly from it at times I could not be on my feet at all. I was all run down and so weak I could not do my housework, was nervous and could not lie down at night. I took treatments from a physician but they did not help me. Aly Aunt recommended lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. 1 tried It and now I am strong and "well again snd do my own work and I give Lydia E. Pinkham'b Compound the credit."--Mrs. J o s b f h i n * Kimbjl*, 935 West liace Street) Portland, XndL \x&7 Every Skk Woman Should Try EYDIA E. PINKHArfS VEGETABLE COMPOUND LYDIA E.PtNKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS, •J**l