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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1907
Page
19
A playful guide by Mary Graham explaining how children can craft a pasteboard city during cold rainy days. Use boxes, paste, watercolor tinting, and simple shading to create brick stone and frame buildings. Arrange a public square with stores church courthouse school and library and ensure a flat tabletop site for safety.
Maud Walker tells of Tommy a busy boy before St Valentine day. He sketches friends and family in pencil turning portraits into valentines with verses. He aims humorous caricatures including a snubbed girl and a tall tale of effort to rhyme lines by night.
A boy named Tommy writes valentines and verses for his family and friends, but misfiles them into wrong envelopes. The mix sparks embarrassment and hurt among his parents, aunt, uncle, schoolteacher, cook Nancy, and Jim. Tom untangles the mess with apologies and reflection on sincerity.
A small four dressed boy in Sunday best tries to send a valentine to his sweetheart. He hopes to exchange the wrong card at Annie Befl’s home while the girl greets him with haughty disdain. The day unfolds as Tommy spends Valentine’s Day undoing his mailing error.
The poem presents a child narrator fearing a dog and a dog fearing a scary boy. The toy dog contemplates hiding. The boy stares with a frown, sparking mutual anxiety about contact and escape. The dialogue riffs on fear, misperception, and coping through bluff and retreat.
Helena Davis describes Bricktop and The Twins hosting a St Valentine party. Guests arrive to a dim parlor, then write valentine verses and draw pictures. Children fish for verses from a "St Valentine pond" and pairs form for a supper banquet.
Reader friendly scene of a Valentine party hosted by the Perkins family with St Valentine presiding. Boys and girls reveal origin of funny valentines, followed by a supper, toasts, games, and wakeful clock reminders about school day. Notes on decor and playful banter frame a wholesome, cheerful gathering.
A sequence of proverbs hides a one-syllable word in each line. The initial letters of these words, in order, spell the name of a once prominent man. The verses hint at virtues, dangers, and daily life, ending with a stray couplet about a fat cook and a stolen cake.
A whimsical late 19th century style portrait of Mr and Mrs Katydid living among leaves. The insects blend with foliage in brilliant green and display a crested back structure. The male calls by rubbing hind legs against wings, a nonvocal song, while the female chooses leaves, sometimes hidden from sight.
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