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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1987)
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The tradition of exchanging verses on Valentine’s Day is believed to have originated by frenchman Charles, Duke of Orleans. During the battle of Agincourt in 1415, Charles was captured and put in prison in Kngland. On Valentine's Day, he sent his wife a rhymed love letter from his cell in the Tower of I^ondon. The first commercial valen tines were not made until the 18008. They were painstakingly handpainted and decorated with such things as paper flowers, feathers, imitation jewels, sea shells and lace, the price of these elaborate cards sometimes reached as much as $10. During the mid-1800s to early 1900s. a valentine card called the “Fenny Dreadful” became —UQ Bookstore^ Guaranteed to make your day special A Valentine’s Checklist >end yourself the first Valentine — you really do loserve it. Choose a terminally cranky person for the next /alentine — sweeten them up. Send your Valentines early—allow enough time for a great response. 'or those hard hearts, try something novel — like i Video Valentine. Send your sweetie a 10 minute aped Valentine for only $9.99.* \>n’t hesitate, say “I Love You” with a special ard or gift from your University Bookstore. Cards T-Shirts Flowers Candy M Foil Balloons UToy Animals Video Valentines $9.99* Boxed Valentines available in the Card Section Happy Valentine's Day Saturday, February 14th * l ain- mu included. BOOKSTORE 13th & Kincaid M F 7 30 5 30 SAT 10 00 4 00 686 4331 popular. Selling for only a pen ny. these cards contained sar castic and insulting remarks, and were usually sent as spiteful jokes. Today. Valentine’s Day is the second-largest card-sending oc casion in the country. It is sur passed only by Christmas. In 1983, Hallmark introduced a line of musical cards that played such romantic hits as “You Made Me Love You” and "Everybody Loves Somebody" when the card was opened. However. Rhonda Mobley, an employee of Tiffany’s Hallmark Shop in the Springfield Mall, said Hallmark received no new shipments of these musical cards this year due to their lack of sales in 1986. "The fad seems to be over.” she said. Children’s valentine cards now carry the likenesses of such cartoon celebrities as Garfield. Ziggy. Scooby Doo and the Cen turions. However, other valen tine cards are specifically aimed at adults ‘‘We try to stay away from the crude ones,” said Vicky Lepp mann, one of the owners of Jab berwocky Cards and Gifts. She added that the “crude” ones do not seem to sell as well on Valentine’s Day. According to Leppmann, the most popular cards during Valentine's Day are ‘‘the general ones. The ones you can send to your mother’s friend.” Mobley estimated that the average price of a valentine card is between $1 and $2, with the price ranging between $3 and $5 dollars for the nicer cards. In the future, there are plans to develop a valentine card that will allow people to record their own valentine messages. Another item that may become popular is the video card, which contains a four- or five minute taped message to be played back on a video recorder. 1 A rQ Continued from Page 2B confused and frustrated, I had become obsessed with an obses sion that perhaps didn’t exist. Both sides presented convinc ing arguments, so it was im possible to make a sound decision. In one last, desperate attempt to discover the truth. 1 searched the eyes of every female student in Sundberg’s class. 1 waited for bells, kazoos, elephants frolick ing. even a food processer. Instead, 1 received blank stares, and my stomach began to turn. Defeated, 1 headed to Taco Time to ease my mental anguish rf" \\ and upset stomach. A young, inattentive girl, looking quite lovely in her attractive uniform, took my order. 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