European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Of by Sid Schapiro new York Bureau on Valentines Day a mans and a woman fancy turns to like it or Dollar do affect love especially in these Days of rampant and the area where Dollar signs have their greatest Impact on love signs is in according to despite the attention Given to liven arrange despite tax Laws that can make it More profitable to live together As singles than As marrieds theres Money affecting love most of the couples who love each other today and who want to live together do so in a state of that ethereal gift from the gods that makes for Beautiful emotions and there Are As Many definitions of love As there Are poets and Money the word commands Forth hard images of numbers and Bank vaults and Crisp As Well As All the things Money can no one has any problems defining this love and two very different kinds of things yet they one researcher intertwined so inti mately they form their own sort of double speaking of love and heres How some people have philosophize on the subject love gives itself it is not Henry wads Worth Longfellow we women ought to put first things Why should we mind if men have their faces on the As Long As we get our hands on Ivy priest Green grows All love has something of blindness in but the love of Money Robert South Money is Handmaiden i thou know est How to use it a mistress i thou know est Horace it is astonishing How Little one feels poverty when one Edward Bulwer Lytton this Valentines Day the Holiday for lovers lets put the subject of Money on and let the romantics Nave their when the love Bug nearly everyone says the greeting card which expects nearly a billion Valentines to be exchanged this the diligent artists and writers who create americas Valentines have thrown tradition to the winds in Many especially when it comes to those greetings that Are intended to bring a chuckle to the Many of these cards depend on ones Strong sense of humor to be fully its the that will have you climbing the Wall or walking try these for sighs a Valentines Day poem for you roses Are Vio lets Are youre sweeter than syrup and too everyone says youre True and above reproach and a Model of Good and i the hell with i like you anyway Happy Valentines Day to someone who got what every Guy in town is panting me if you want to be my youll have to take a number and wait your turn its your turn Al ready i think of you every hour of the Day when the Little Bird comes out and says cuckoo in old enough to know Valentine and youre better a it must be Valentines Day the sound of heavy breathing is in the air Whall it be Tea or sexy of me i know youll be my Valentine cause youre a person who is easily satisfied with the Best of everything id like to treat you like a gourmet recipe a Pinch of a squeeze of and heat slowly do you want to be Good or or both me too in the Duke of bored and lonely in his prison cell in the Tower of doodled a design of hearts and Flowers around a love poem for his the an unwilling guest of the English following the Battle of doubtless was unaware of but by posting his pledge of affection on the anniversary of an obscure thir Century saints he created something called a the Valentine is regarded As a forerunner of the greeting its history is related to pre Christian Rome when boys Drew the names of girls from a love urn on the feast of Lupercalia on the custom was introduced to England by the romans and continued through the Christian in order to adapt the practice to the Church transferred it to the feast of Saint another legend has it that emperor Claudius forbade his constituency to marry because it distracted men from their military one of Claudius subjects Valen the romantic Christian ignored this pairing lovers in secret marriage until he was it is generally believed that Valentine was martyred in Rome on 270 since Many including Geoffrey have mixed fact and fable to Mark this special nobody seems to know if Saint Valen Tine had to say on the subject of love and mar but in Honor of Valentines Are some revealing comments by others Groucho Marx the husband who wants a Happy marriage should learn to keep his Mouth shut and his Check Book open politics Doest make strange bed Fellows marriage Benjamin Franklin keep thy eyes open before marriage and half shut Mae West marriage is a great institution no family should be without Abraham Lincoln marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply Purgatory no matter How much cats there always seem to be plenty of will Rogers Mona Lisa is the Only Beauty who Ever Page 14 the stars and stripes february went through history and retained her George Bernard Shaw when two people Are under the influence of the most most most delusive and most transient of they Are required to swear that they will remain in that abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them Honore de Balzac marriage is an institution Nec Essary to the maintenance of but contrary to the Laws of nature no Man should marry without having studied Anatomy and dissected at least one Samuel Johnson to marry a second time represents the Triumph of Hope Over experience marriage has Many but celibacy has no Fields women Are like i like to look at but i would not want to own one was in love with a Beautiful blonde she drove me to drink its the Only thing in indebted to her Marlene Dietrich a gentleman is a Man who buys two of the same morning papers from the Doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his lord Byron let us have wine and mirth and laughter sermons and soda water the Day the stars and stripes Page 15
