❤ San Valentine's Cards❤
The first Valentine's cards were sent in the 18th century. At the beginning the cards were handmade but with the Industrial Revolution there was a mass-produced. Lovers would decorate paper💌 with romantic symbols including flowers💮 and love knots🔐,often including puzzles and lines of poetry. The majority of Valentines remained sentimental and carried a romantic message. These cards were slipped secretly under a door, or tied to a door-knocker. Today approximately 200 million paper valentines are sent in the United States alone.🌹🌹

                                                                      The ugly tree

Long, long ago, in a dense forest, there were thousands of tall and beautiful trees. They were happy, but proud of themselves. Among them there was also an ugly tree, whose branches were badly twisted. Its roots had uneven curves. All the trees made fun of that ugly tree.

"How are you, hunchback?" the others trees always shouted and their laughter made the ugly tree, feel sad. But, he never raised a voice against them. The ugly tree thought: " I wish I were as beautiful as the other trees. Why did God do this to me? Neither can I provide shade to travelers, not can the birds make their nests on me. Nobody needs me."

One day, a woodcutter came to the forest. He took a look at the trees and said: "These trees are lovely. I must cut them". As soon as he picked up his axe, the trees became frightened. 'CHOP, CHOP, CHOP', went the woodcutter's axe and, one by one, the trees started to fall. "None of us is going to be spared", screamed one of the beautiful trees. Soon that tree too was brought to ground by the woodcutter's axe.

By now, the woodcutter had come near to the ugly tree. He had just raised his axe, when, suddenly, he noticed how crooked the ugly tree was. "Hmmm! This croocked tree sems to be useless for me. I cannot make long straight logs of this ugly tree" he thought. And he moved towards another beautiful tree. The ugly tree heaved a huge sigh of relief. He realized that by making him ugly, God had actually given him a boon.

From that day the ugly tree never complained. He was happy with his crooked branches. He never forgot how he was spared from the woodcutter's axe, only because he was crooked and ugly.