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1 CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1890 - -'' B ST-' E. v I r . ,-' 1 W .Vf ? I,- if I il m- a Handkerchiefs Expecting tli.it ns In the past, Ladles' Hnndkcichlefs would continue the most popular of article for Holiday Gifts, wo secured such a line a we nre sure was never before displayed In the city. Among theni French and Irish Embroidered Hemstitched, From toe. to $3.00 each. Swiss Hand Spun Linen, Hand Embroidered, From $2.00 to $tooo each. 1 French Silk Bolting Cloth, Hand Embroidered, From $1.35 to $3.50 each. Hand-Made Duchesse Lace Edges. From $t.oo to $tt.oo. i If vou nre In doubt ns to what to buy this Is your chance. Respectfully, t 133 to 139 South Notary PubKc and Real Esta b iAldioxjtjxAju Whitebreast Coal and Lime Co. Canon City Whitebreast AND ANTHRACITE. Telephone 234. Lime Hair Office, 109 South Eleventh St. BETTS X MENDOTA COL'RADO OHIO BL'K CAN'N CITY COHL WOOD AND BEST ANTH'CITE 1045 O Street. For 1890 Consider Scrihner's Magazink when you are deciding upon your reading matter for next season. The subscription rate is low $3.00 a year. The standard of the Magazine Is high, Its spirit progressive, The Illustrations are Interesting and of the best. There is not space here to give even a summary of the feat ures to appear next year, but among other things there will be a .NEW DEPARTMENT and ADDITIONAL PAGES, and groups of illustrated articles will be devoted to the following subjects: African Exploration and Travel, Life on a Modern War Ship (3 articles), Homes In Clt., Suburb, and Country, Piovldlng Homes through Hulldlng Associations, The Citizen's Rights, Electricity in the Household, Erlcssohn, the Inventor, by his Authorized Biographer, I hinting, Humorous Artists, American and Foreign. There will be 3 serials. Robert Louis Stevenson will contribute In 1S90. Each subject, and there will be a great variety this year, will be treated by writers most competent to speak with authority and with interest. Readers who are interested are urged to send for a prospectus. 25 cents a number; $1.00 for 4 months. Charles Scribner's Sons, Eleventh Street. Dealer in City and Farm Property, aujtt ro tub North Qer.t&D Lloyd Steamship Compiiy, Hamburg-American Packet Co.. n1 Baltic llaest also Railroad Agent for the d ffcrent companl ast and weat. Southampton, Havre, Hamburg, Stotten, London, Paris, Nor way, Plymouth, Bremen, Swe den and any point In Europe. PoeCordo and foreign cxeh&njro tuned to all prominent point In Koropo. arloc tares facilities with the east blrgett bask and taring InsUtaUons, I am prepared to make all Hind of luan on nm real estate mortgages, city or arm property, from 1 to 8 yean, at the lowest I. tercet I also doal In school bonds, state, coantf and cltv warrant, also In ftato, connty and city enlcflod claim, and will alwayi pay the highest narket price Call and sen me or correspond wlt L. MEYER, 108 North Tenth st Walnut Springs Plaster Cement WBPOZEre r Telephone 440 743 Broadway, New York HOW ABUSE KILLS A CUSTOM. H. Yttlmtlne OtMonrititvea Din Out avnd llMppmr from Tlnto to Time. Thnt St. Valentino's day observances bc jnn by reason of man's observation of nature, continued as matter of sentiment, mid Anally degenerated Into moro fun, too often tlngul with 111 naturcd satire, Is known to nil well Informed inTsona, and Is, In fact, truo of nearly all social cuitoin. In tho most south erly nylons of Euroo and adjacent jwrts of Asia and Africa signs of coming spring wore apparent at that season, and so tlio birds wore thought to chooso their mates for tlio year on thnt day. Simple, Innocent notion, wasn't III and suggostlva nppnri'utly of tho most tasteful acts of tendcrncm. Hut obsorvo how easily all human customs run Into abuses. At first youths and mnldeiis chow their partners ("valentines") on that ilny for Uio nppronclf ItifC festivities, school children exchanged tmidor memngm and lltUo present were sent to loved ones, Hut In no long timn tho great begnu to ox)oct ciwtly presents from thoir dependent mid tho wealthy used this ns a sort of disguise for corrupting judges or so curing tlio favor of tho jowerful. "Gifts to Cn-sar" woro a sort of forced tax In Homo, mid nt ono tlmo n hard pressed cndftor or criminal might tnko n sort of hari-kari rovongo on his pursuer by deeding overythlng ho hml to tho emperor. In l'nrls, at ono time, with Bt, Valentino's day and Easter gifts, life Ixvumo n burden to tlioso who lmd moro money thnn Inlluonco. Great bales of rich merchandise, gloves stuffed with gold coins, mid oven dim carriages woro put up In egg shaped or heart shnod mck ages mid nout to thoso whoso favor was sought. When an nbuso or a fashion reached its worst rufonn follows, and son general ro volt puts an ond to tho Valentino business for a time. In the United Stated tho nbuso first took tho form of ill natural satire. Vnlciitlnoa with coverings as much Ilka tlio tender ones ns )osslblo were sent to tho enion ono wished to wound or Insult tho contents being scut rilous doggerel. At length this, too, ronched n point where it bccnino almost unbearable; nnd now, though "comic valentine" nro still ued, they nro externally tpilto diireivnt from tlio sentimental ones, mid nro usually treated with silent contempt. Hut on looking over n lot of tho old sort 0110 is amazed to uoto tho many devices of thoso who pandered to mal leo There nro sunken with humnu hinds, owls, dogs, donkeys nnd dozens of other creatures, (dl ilxed to represent soma supjiOhed menu iiossof the receiver Every trndo nnd pro fession Is caricatured hut tliewi me geuer ally hotter uuturoiL 1'olltlcinuH, lawyers anil doctors generally "entch It" most unmerci fully Tho "poetry" of theso productiouc is simply execrahlo. An "oxort" who oxnm Inctl several thousand specimens tcUlllos thnt ho did not find ono nbovo tho lowest lovol of doggerel All those, mid thonhuscslii tlio sentimental lino, produced tho natural result! Valentines nro now loft to children mid survnnts, nnd oven with them tho sentiment lias mostly given place to merriment. As to sending n "comic," 11 lady or geiitlemnu would as soon think of stealing a sheep. Tho law has also stepped In, Undo Sam says you must not uso his malls for n scurrilous Valentino. So tho custom must dloout for nwlillo to ro vivo In tho future, ns other customs Imvo dona Smiil Flowers. Flowers nro nlwnys n grnccfuland pleasing compliment to jmy to n lady, nnd for thoso who wish to mark this saint's day by nn of fering ut tho shrlno of somo fnlr ono no bet ter choice of a gift could bo mndo. An en gnged man, whoso estate, by the way, has been descrllxHl ws resembling that of Maliom etV eollln, hanglug between heaven nnd earth, Is not limited to (lowers nnd nlry paper noth ings. Ho mny offer Jewels to his flnncuu, if his bank account admits of the necessary outlay But If, llko tho majority of men, his heart Is bigger thnn his purso, ho may send hern pretty heart sliaxl mirror, with tho inscription, "My heart is filled with theo," or a plush mounted inkstand nnd gold -ion, or somo ono or mo inncy uioltors, Inbolod, "Uso this when writing to mo," and thou ho will do a doublo service, for her llttlo brother will also probably uso It on thochalloiigoho wrltto to tho boy across tho way to skato him flvo mile Valentino's Morn. QJ "Do thoy expect young Indies to climb up to tho lottor boxosf Ami w hj- couldn't thoy make 'em a llttlo bigger whiles thoy wuz about Itf LIfo. Bho Still TJstena to Talus of Lore. Why fa it thnt St. Valentino's day is not observed as It was half a contury ogol Is It becnuso tho youug men and innldons hove got beyond it, that thoy aro moro intellectual thnn formerly! Ono feels Inclined to hold that tlio tleciuionce of Valentino's day and of tho customs projwr to it suggests a change In tho attitude of young nion to young wo men a decline In tlio chivalrous res poet and politeness w hlch used, I think, to mark their innntinr tnwnril. tlw.tn V... ....... . ...v..., A uutl 1111-11 BUl'IU, 1 nowadays, to stray into so many naths. and flutter round so many objects, that thoy have ' nolelsurofor lea otit soins which it is o coming In them to offer mid pleasant for young women to accept. It mny be thnt tho progress of tho higher education nniong our girls nnd maidens may imvo frightened our present day Coryduns nnd Aloxfses Into their frigid nloofness What! send n valentine ton learned girl grudunto' lni)osslhlo Ah, believe mo, the Intel- ' lectuul cultivation of woman will never crush her nffections, tho expansion of hor heart ill keen luieo with tho nTnnni.iM nt her mind. Kho will still blush nt tho whis per of love, shu will still lw truo and fnlth ful to tho vows of her maidenhood, though In tho future sho will insist. I think that a man shall glvo lier of Ills host his purity, his steailfastni'Mi and Ills honor Hho will dislaiu the eiuptuiess of (lattery ho will cease u lw decelvixl by externals t-ho will demand in her lover nu intellect not less cul tivated thou lier own, sympathies not less generous, tastes not less refilled, alnn not less exulted Hut she will retain her tender nature, her capability of self sacrifice, hor grace and gentleness mid Inoxhaustlblo lovo; mid sho will still delight if It be worthy of him who M-nds and of her who receives it In a vnleutiiio I 1 1 1 1 if ONLY TO SEE HER FACE AGAIN. ' Published through Tho American Pre, .-UiocuUion, by pmnfuhn if tfewhaU and Vvan,' Muno Ce., 171 West 4th St., Ciueiihuiti, Ohio. JsriM mmms ru. q,-BEEgg . ?P 14 r folate. r E33S J!' 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