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Demoreaic Wap,
Bellefonte, Pa., February 8, 1924.
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HER VALENTINE.
By Nettie K. Nehan.
Out of the heart of long ago,
Faded and yellow, by time, you know,
But cherished still in shadow and shine,
Cometh to me her valentine;
Here is the couplet, quaint and true,
The rose is red,
The violets blue—
And I dream in the gloaming soft and low
Of the lass who penned it long years ago.
A little maid with the bluest eyes
That ever danced neath the winter skies;
A roguish miss, whose love was told
To the sound of a kiss in a moonlit wold,
But here is the rest of her rhyming tune!
Love is sweet
And so are you,
And a boy’s cheeks flushed at the final line
Of a rustic sweetheart’s valentine.
Deep in the past, but dimly hid,
Behind her soft eye's drooping lid,
Quivers and arrows that Cupid keen®
Shot at the Castle of Might-have-been.
And plainer still the couplet true,
The rose is red,
The violets blue—
And laughter low, which is half divine,
Ripples across her valentine.
With a cherished thought for the love it
told
I tenderly open each yellow fold.
And my heart beats fast as it did one day
In a past that is hallowed and far away,
I can see the eyes that were deep and blue.
Love is sweet
And so are you—
So thought the lass as she penned each
line,
And sealed with a Kiss her valentine. ‘
Flowers and candy are more to Mi-
lady’s fancy nowadays than jingles,
lace paper and arrow punctured
hearts as St. Valentine tokens. .
Her grandame may bewail this
change as evidence of a mercenary
ring that seems to jangle the sweet
belles of the twentieth century out of
tune with the ternal melody of Cupid.
But Milady’s tastes must be appeas-
ed, even in such changes of mind as
affect affairs of the heart and of art.
Therefore, it will be found that, while
costly valentines are a back number,
the flower and candy trades bloom
and bloom marvelously on the eve of
that day, when the paths of the good
old saint and the ever-youthful and
mischievous Cupid run parallel, as
they yearly have, it seems, pretty
near since time was.
DESIRE TO GET EVEN.
In the case that formed the basis
for this decision a West Philadelphia
woman, with a desire to “get even”
with her sister-in-law, sent her one of
the alleged “comics” with these in-
scriptions, some printed, some writ-
ten:
To my Valentine: Trouble maker.
Scandal. Lies. Other's people’s bus-
iness. Slander. The woman with a
mischievous tongue.
To stir up a row is to you such joy
That the whole of your time in such work
you employ.
If some one had courage to muzzle your
jaws,
The neighbors would hail the good deed
with applause.
It contained a woman, a pair of
scales and a scroll. On the scroll was
«License—This is to certify that 1
may lie at any time that I think there
is money in it.” .
All of which is submitted as evi-
dence of “regards of the day” where-
of there used to be a deluge, but which
are nowadays comparatively as few
as are the costly ones, with “frills an’
fixin’s,” from anonymous swains to
little bleed’ng heart, arrow-punctured;
in another the reproduction of that
ancient musical instrument, the lyre
—the veiled allusion being made ob-
vious by the verse between:
“Where there’s a will there's a way
To break it, the legal sharps say—
And, between you and me,
A contingent fee
Is a case of the devil to pay.”
There are, of course, many cards,
bubbling: over with sentiment. Some-
times they cost no more than a cent,
and yet they may serve as a ready-
made mouthpiece in expressing, or,
rather, mailing, the outpouring or sen-
timent from your heart.
COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOVE.
Many of them have been handed
down, with little or no change, from
the t.m>s when “Gentlemen and La-
dies’ Polite Valentine Writer” fur-
nished what’s-what in this line to as
eager an assemblage of pupils as
pours now-adays over hand-books that
profess to be complete guides to those
who seek to live and move and have
their being in society. For instance:
“If you'll be mine,
I will be thine.
And so good-
Morrow, Valentine.”
And this:
“Round is the ring that has no end,
And so is my love for you, my friend.”
Now, that the Twentieth Century
maid can be expected to believe such
a protestation as this if there is no
accompanying ring. In short, the sen-
timent doesn’t seem to ring true,
judged in the light of these practical
times.
And, therefore, it is that, more and
more St. Valentine’s day, like Hallow-
een, when Cupid also holds sway, do-
ing serious damage in antic disposi-
tion, is becoming a time for the mak-
ing of presents that mean something
to the maid of today. There are in
the shops many little tokens that are
appropriate to the sentiment of the
day, and yet may be of use. The heart
is often reproduced in these little
gifts—heart shaped pen wipers,
heart shaped emery bags and the like.
Only remember that while the maid
of yesterday did knit, her descendant
of today is likely to be more fond of
doing “nit,” and that a heart shaped
box of candy will go much further to-
ward her good graces than anything
in the “sewing” line.
LOOKING BACK TO YESTERDAY.
Looking back to the day before yes-
terday, it may be interesting to take
a glimpse of the customs the basis for
which the ancient writer could find
nothing in the life of St. Valentine to
justify.
A fourteenth century English writ-
er records: “It is a custom never
omittad among the vulgar to draw
lots, which the term Valentine, on the
eve before Valentine’s day. The names
of a select number of one sex are
chosen by an equal number of the oth-
er, put into some vessel, and after
that every one draws a name, which
for the present is called their valen-
tine, and is looked upon as a good
omen for their being man and wife
afterward.”
In the Connoisseur, of London, of
1776 is found this account of a cur-
ious species of divination practiced on
Valentine day, or eve: “Last Friday
was Valentine day, and the night be-
fore I got five bay leaves and pinned
four of them to the four corners of
my pillow and the fifth to the middle,
and then if I dreamt of my sweet-
heart, Betty said we would be
married before the year was out.
But to make it more sure I boiled an
egg hard and took out the yoke and
filled it with salt, and when I went to
bed ate it, shell and all, without
speaking or drinking after it. We
wrote our lovers’ names on bits of pa-
per and rolled them up in clay and
the women of their hearts. put them into water, and the first that |
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
From “Headway,” a publication de-
voted to discussion of questions of
great public interest such as political,
social and financial problems con-
fronting the world, we reprint the fol-
lowing article on the League of Na-
tions by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Bal-
four. Balfour, as you probably know,
is one of Eengland’s really great men.
He has held almost every cabinet of-
fice in the Empire and been so long a
student of world affairs that his view
of the League is worth reading,
whether you favor it or not.
The League of Nations has now
completed its fourth year of active
life, and it behooves us to take stock
of what has been accomplished during
that eventful period, and to consider
our present position and future pros-
pects.
I do not on the present occasion
propose to attempt the task, for
which, indeed, I have neither the time
nor, in all respects, the necessary
equipment. I content myself with
some brief observations on points not
always perhaps sufficiently considered
either by ourselves or by our critics.
Critics, indeed, we have in plenty,
and the vehemence with which some
of them exercise their functions has
always surprised me. Indifference on
the part of certain sections of the
public was to have been expected; for
there are many who feel but a languid
interest in international relations un-
til war, or the threat of war, is loud-
ly knocking at their gates. Again, it
is natural that many should be scep-
tical about our permanent success.
For we are admittedly pioneers in a
new adventure; our course is certain-
ly difficult, perhaps perilous; and those
who doubt of our future can make a
plausible case. But, in addition to the
indifferent and the sceptical, there are
some who are violently hostile; and
their attitude is harder to explain.
It may be that some friends of the
League have given provocation. They
have not been content with defending
its principles; they have thought it
necessary to treat it as an infinitely
superior substitute for the “old diplo-
macy,” an infallible prophylactic
against the disease of war. I do not
| myself hold that this is the best way
of approaching the subject. The “old
diplomacy” is necessary, and the
League is never likely to replace it.
No doubt, like other forms of human
intercourse, it has often been grossly
misused. A nation that wishes to
play the part of a bully or a bandit
will take care that its diplomacy
matches its policy. It has always
been so in the past; we need not ex-
pect it to be different in the future.
But, on the other hand, the services
rendered by the diplomatists of na-
| tions reasonably and pacifically in-
‘ clined have been of infinite benefit to |
“international harmony, and even in
| the millennium diplomacy must re-
| main the necessary instrument of in-
! ternational intercourse.
| But the real question is not whether
| the “old diplomacy” is good or bad, !
but whether it is sufficient. Does it
| give us, can it by any possibility give
ius, all we want? I find it hard to
{ ry can answer in the affirmative. For,
j after all, it was created to serve the | cript of the testimony:
!interests of individual States in their
i relations, friendly or otherwise,
| the rest of the world. If it also serv-
| ed the interests of the world, as
! doubtless it often did, this was be- city?”
cause the interests of the two hap-
pened often to coincide. The League
of Nations,
constitutionally incapable of interfer-
' went members, fosters by its very na-
ture the sense of international comi-
The tendency of the times in Val-
entine tokens is all against this an-
cient notion of the swain hiding his
light under a bushel of lace paper.
There is no chance of candy and flow-
ers going begging if they have the
sniff of being the real thing coming
from a friendly hand; and, besides,
anonymous sweetmeats always sug-
gest the possibility of tragedy.
MANY ARTISTIC REMINDERS.
While the complicated affairs of
lace are few, there are many artistic
and inexpensive reminders of the day
in various forms less wearisome than
the eternal _ postal. Playing cards
that open out in a full hand of hearts,
each containing a little jingle, have on
the cover the miniature reproduction
of the organ of life, with Cupid doing
a spearing stunt, and the inscription
“From heart to heart,” with room for
the names of the sender and the ve-
cipient. :
It is, of course, quite appropriate
that Cupid should be depicted on an
automobile-shaped valentine booklet
as the chauffeur of the horseless ve-
hicle; and the verses therein carry
along the idea that he has a leading
part in this game of latter-day trans-
portation. .
There are many pretty little affairs
of eolored pasteboeard, ribbons and the
like, designed for children, which are
the most attractive of this season’s
valentine novelties. :
There is one at which two tiny
mortals aré forging hearts on Cupid’s
anvil; another in which Cupid is
chauffeur, with a dainty maid as pas-
senge in a flower-be-decked auto;
another in which love is engineer of
an equally unbusiness-like looking lo-
comotive. All of which are doubtless
destined to become nine-mimute won-
ders to youngsters after the candy
contents have disappeared.
HUMOR AIMED AT AUTOISTS. °
Humor aimed at autoists is not al-
ways of kindly brand, as, for instance,
this:
“I'm king of the highway and street;
I scare every horse that I meet,
My chauffeur is in jail,
When he isn’t on bail;
But no cop my red devil can beat.”
This is on a postal card with a red
devil—of sulphurous, not gasoline
brand—standing in a position that
seems to indicate absolute ownership
of everything in sight.
There is a card, designed for mem-
bers of the bar, which some rising
young barrister—having risen in his
wrath at its receipt—may use as a ba-
sis for confirming Judge Staake’s
opinion. In one corner is a typical
rose was to be our valentine. Would ty, and provides a machinery incom-
you think it, Mr. Blossom was my
man. I lay abed and shut my eyes all
the morning, until he came to our
house, for I would not have seen
another man before him for all the
world.”
And nowadays? Well, if the lat-
ter-day Mr. Blossom wants to bloom
in milady’s heart to the exclusion of
all other budding lovers, he will do-
well to bank on such things as the
hereinbefore-mentioned heart of dia-
monds set in the purple fragrance of
a huge bunch of violets.
For the world wags, and Cupid nev-
er lags an inch behind.
Ask Ban on Mah Jongg by American
Churches.
A protest against the playing of
Mah Jongg by American church mem-
bers, on the ground that it is the lead-
ing gambling device in use in China,
by means of which as much as $1,
000,000 is won and lost in a single
night, has been made by the National
Christian Council of China, according
to a statement made recently by Rev.
Paul Hutchinson, of the committee on
conservation and advance of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church.
The adoption of the game in Ameri-
ca has appalled China christians, and
has brought about a critical situa-
tion in Chinese churches, where the
playing of the game previously has
been frowned upon, hir. Hutchinson
said.
Mah Jongg is too intricate and sub- |
tle for the occidental mind, and since
it is only a social fad in America, will |
soon disappear, Rev. Hutchinson pre-
dicted.
“Chinese christian leaders have ap-
pealed to American christians through
the Federal Council of churches of
Christ to discourage its use in Ameri-
ca,” said Mr. Hutchinson, explaining
that they did not raise the question
as to the ethics of the game itself, but
only the fact that it is used for gam-
bling in China.—Record.
A Veteran.
In the old days of the draft—stor-
ies are popping up about them even
at this time—an examiner was put-
ting Sambo through a course of
questions.
“Any previous
ience?” he asked.
“Lord, yes, boss,” replied Sambo.
“Ise an old-timer. Ise been shot at
three times befo’ they ever was a
war.” rai]
military exper-
| parably better fitted to further the
| good of the whole than any which
| could be supplied by ordinary diplo-
macy, devised as this was to further
dic soparaie good of each individual
part.
| There are doubtless many who ad-
mit that the great experiment was
worth making, and that the framing
of the peace treaties was the proper
occasion on which to make it, yet are
Lanxiously inquiring what prospects
! there are of its ultimate success. They
| are aware that it has been tried under
! conditions which are singularly un-
| propitious. The League was framed
to include all the nations of the earth.
! But three of the greatest among
. them—America, Germany and Russia
| —are not within its ranks. It was de-
! signed to deal with a world in which
peace was solidly established between
| communities whose frontiers had a
' reasonable prospect of performance.
But even now the frontiers remain in
| some cases doubtful and undetermin-
| ed. It was designed to prevent a so-
l cial system, working normally and
| peacefully, from being again engulf-
i ed in such abysses of horror and de-
' struction as those into which it was
plunged by the authors of the Great
War. But five years have passed
' since the armistice, society is not yet
normal, the horror is not wholly over-
passed, nor has the destruction of
Wealth and credit been nearly repair-
ed.
| Never was an infant institution be-
| set with difficulties so far in excess of
i those contemplated by its contrivers.
Yet who can deny that, even under
these untoward conditions, the League
has worked, and worked well? It has
performed more than one task to
which (through no fault of its own)
the “old diplomacy” had shown itself
unequal. It has supervised the ad-
ministration of communities torn by
racial antagonism and historical re-
sentments—witness Danzig. It has
dealt with frontier problems of extra-
ordinary complexity; and even where
its award has (inevitably) satisfied
neither disputant, as in the case of
Upper Silesia, it is admitted that the
arrangements made for maintaining
the economic life of the divided terri-
tories have been crowned with a most
satisfactory measure of success. It
has played the leading part in the
financial reform of Austria. It is, I
trust, in a fair way to perform the
same great service for Hungary. It
has preserved peace where war seem-
ed certain, as in the case of Serbia
and Albania. It has settled most dif-
ficult international disputes, as in the
case of Sweden and Finland. It has
‘the most prejudiced among its crit-
|
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believe that anybody who has serious- | arrived immigrant seeking entrance.
‘ly reflected upon the lessons of histo- | He had given his occupation as editor
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with | est newspaper ?”’
|
on the other hand, while |
|
ing with the autonomy of its constit-
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succeeded in establishing a long-de-
sired Court of International Justice,
which has already demonstrated its
value as a tribunal for deciding juri-
dicial questions where governments
are at issue and diplomacy has failed
to find a solution. I will not attempt
to enumerate its performances in such
tasks as those dealing with interna-
tional waterways, controlling the
spread of epidemics, alleviating the
lot of political refugees, and dimin-
ishing the miseries of famine-stricken
provinces.
Now I am the last person to mini-
mise the patience and the ability
which individual members of the
Council and the Assembly, aided by
their admirable staff, have shown in
dealing with these varied, and often
most difficult, subjects. But it is all
important to remember that their suc-
cesses have been due not merely to
their own efforts, but to the fact that
these were made in the name and
with the authority of the League of
Nations. Now for the first time in
the history of the world international
public opinion has been given a per-
manent organ of self-expression; for
the first time it is conscious of a great
mission, for the first time it has been
supplied with machinery for carrying
that mission into effect. Its agents,
therefore, and its representatives,
whether they be members of the As-
sembly or of the Council, speak and
act, in their collective capacity, with
a kind of authority, which, be it great
or small, has few precedents in the
experience of mankind. Each indi-
vidually is the delegate of his own
country, and as such has special du-
ties to perform. But his country is a
member of the League; the League is
embodied in its Assembly and its
Council, and these, like all living po-
litical organisms, develop qualities
and characteristics of their own, which
are more than the sum of the quali-
ties and characteristics of their indi-
vidual members. Neither of them
will ever knowingly be the mere in-
struments of particular ambitious, or
the support of particular interests.
The spirit fostered by the League is-
as wide, nay, wider than the League
itself.
Hostile critics may industriously
pick out cases where, in their opinion,
the League has failed; cases where it
has done nothing, or has done wrong.
But what is the value of such cavil-
lings as these? The League makes
no pretence to infallibility. It is
neither omniscient nor all-powerful.
And surely the vital question for us
all is not whether it fails to do some
things which some persons would like
to see done; but whether it does
things which certainly ought to be
done, and which no other organization
in existence, or in contemplation, is
capable of doing. Who can doubt
what the answer should be? The
League has existed for four years
only—a mere moment in the history
of civilization. Yet unless I be great-
ly mistaken, it has, even in this brief | J%
period, shown itself capable of per-
formances which should give pause to
ics, and hope to the least sanguine
among its friends.
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