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Elaborate or plain, silly or sad,
valentine cards retain popularity
By Cami Swanson
Of the Kmerald
On Valentine’s Day, about
900 million valentine cards will
be exchanged by sweethearts
across the country. Some cards
are romantic, some are funny,
and some are downright vulgar.
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
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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.
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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. While reaching
into my wallet to pay for my
feast, she dumped the whole
plate on my shoes.
Looking up to admonish her
carelessness, I froze. She was
staring at me with her jaw drop
ped. Her eyes looked like silver
dollars. 1 thought I heard the
distinct sound of a blender go
off in her chest.
It was time to make a deci
sion. “Forget it.” I said han
ding her the money. “You're
just experiencing a temporary
case of lust at first sight.”
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