Valentine’s Eve

Valentine’s day is tomorrow, so it may be too late to try to pick one out – unless you plan to deliver it on-line or in person.

It may simply be a matter of taste, but I think Valentines may have improved with age.  Just take a look at this one, first published in The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Feb 13, 1892

 

THE MILKMAN.

Although the public howling
Upon you loves to jump,
I know your milk is never
Assisted at the pump.

You never fill with water
Your polka dotted beeve
To raise her yielding limit
At orange tinted eve.

Your ways are ever honest,
And as an honest man
I gayly drum your praises
Upon this old milk can;

And trust that fate your cream jug
May fill unto the brim,
And let you like a swallow
The sky of fortune skim.

R.K. MUNKITTRICK

Or this one, dedicated to a nineteenth century dentist

I started this by saying that Valentines may have improved over the years.  Then again, they may not have – a quick check for a good modern card did not produce anything worth posting.