This description of a Valentine entertainment will be welcomed by those who desire novel and original ideas.
We were received in a room decorated with wreaths of green, hung in festoons caught up at regular intervals by ribbon streamers. From the centre of each wreath hung hearts of parchment paper, tinted in blue and lettered in gold, each bearing a number and a fate or fortune.
Suspended from a portière rod between the hall and reception room were three hearts formed of heavy wire and carefully entwined with evergreen; above each one was a jingle. The first said:
Blow your bubble right through here
And you'll be married before another year.
Above the second was:
To be engaged this very week
Number two is the one to take.
And the third had:
A sad, an awful fate awaits the one who seeks me,