16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Monday, February 12, 1912: Got my valentines in preparation. They’re all ugly ones. I thought one was most too much to send as it was rather mean looking. But I got it ready, so it has to go.
DON’T sit up nights admiring yourself.
The best that can be said of you
Is that you might pass in a crowd.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
What could the valentine have possibly said that was almost too bad to send? And, who was Grandma sending it to? . . . . .a classmate?. . . her teacher? . . . her sister?
For more old valentines see these previous posts:
Bought Some Vinegar Valentines
A Hundred Years Ago 
I know! Those are pretty mean.
I’m also amazed by how mean they were. I can’t imagine someone sending cards like these today–though I guess that we now have problems with kids saying mean things to each other on facebook.
Your grandma was kind of a brat! LOL!
Bahahahaha, that last sentence sounds like something I would say.