Show efflo A very ancient festival it TRUE ORIGIN OF was first observed by the ST valentines VALENTINI EPS DAY pagans always a time for despy v of sentiment nt it is the fashion nowadays to speak of many old customs that still sur vive although much diminished as if they were to all intents and purposes pur burp roses already dead st valentines day Is I 1 nowhere observed it is true as much is lla it years ago nor even een wi much as it nag in the curly carly recollection ot of some of tho the elder generation of the present et it Is very far from be ing as a peculiar and popular holiday in some of the rurel rural districts of england it Is still celebrated alth etli much quaint fidelity to tradition and even in this country certain of its well known feature features are not likely to be wholly abandoned if it ever for many to come indeed the social prophet may well question whether st valentines day may not rather regain much that it has lost through the attrition of time ind change by the natu ral reaction that fo follows follona all nit positive movements the tend tendency enc toward renewed respect for some soine t ocial insel of the past that hae hane fallen into partial desuetude is ii rather marked the dominant instinct of the twentieth century thus far seems to be conservative as ft nell ell as she not very long lorg ago it was thought that st day was ghen ivr almost absolutely to the sorry wits and their patrons who biado it a con vengence ven lence for vulgar lampooning and anonymous libel but even then the pretty sentiment belonging to it hid not been altogether lost and since then it has ste tAlly revived the proof of the assertion Is in the fica that thero there la Is now a greater demand tor for printed valentines of real poetic and artistic merit than ever before and that those of the cheap illiterate and malicious ape are comparative lit tie sought after so much that Is with i i the reach of all has been written about st valen badin cadia this was as a feat fest lal of seven jas in tho idos ides of fb rury or on the ath or irth of 0 that franth it waa nas called I 1 realla after the wolf lupus which Is suppo supposed seti to bo be associated in somo soma way with pan ilan and was nas often represented by tho the an dents as a of light and iho the course of the seasons pan ilan was the killer of dulios and the of tho shepherds who dwelt upon mount palatine before romulus and demmi built their cit there ey by some tho the name of the feit festival ival li in supposed niso also to bear relation to the legend of the miraculous billing of tho the roman twins by a she slie wolf olf in a near this spot part of tho the unspeakable mysteries erlos of the I 1 i waa as celebrated in such a cae hut but much of this inference fa ra pure afterthought it does not affect in the least tho the theory that the hesthal was nas begun a a recognition of the prodigious powers of nature choice by lota during the Lu percalli lL it was tho the custom of if the male celebrants to dra draw from a box boy the names of young women omen end girls girl 1 possession of whom was thus thim determined 1 chance it wa haq the rolley of the parly party church to adapt to tb leq own customs of tro pagans which it could not extirpate this of mating or betrothal re rc prohibition and een enen tion it 14 1 related that st francis de silas and anti other christian pastors put tho the names of saints on the lots to be drawn in the place of those of j maidens and charged the young men who ho rece received led then them to imitate those saints throughout the year but while they may have tried viry hard to obey ehlt injunction it appears that the lot drawing not in honor of Feb runta juno but in boror of thit tha which sho she personified continued in secret the in england and anti scotland and tho the countries colonized by them st val antines a day retain retained cd all through the middle ages anil anti down don almost to the present a more typical character acter than it did elsewhere in austria and hun ilan gary it Is 19 a festival of lowers flowers rather than of love billets young girls who wish for a husband cast flowers into tho the danube and if the are boino down tho the stream AIt without hout meeting with bertous serious obstruction the omen la Is held to be auspicious of speedy marriage in some parts of franco france tho the eve pie of st valentines dav da 1 called the react 1 of the torches bes but the celebration which indeed ie Is sometimes held on the first sunday of I 1 ent has ap apparent parenti a closer historical relation to that period of ab nt gaton gatlon than to the patron of love loves a courtship the torches that are aro are made of tI twisted sted straw and are ure br in the air by those who carry them ahila at the same timo time peculiar rustic dances ar r reformed A philological theory antiquarians have hae drawn dramn from front phil a means of explaining in an altogether different uny the name of tho the festival of st valentine it 1 Is 14 4 veil 11 known that in many lan lansi ages oro ore letter of the alphabet ma osia bo be substituted for another through lar error in the spelling of lar worda words it la Is suspected by some that the n nimo nime ime la Is primarily derived from tho the latin vale ale which Is 18 equivalent to our farewell a salutation that was placed at the end of letters but a largo large number more Ingen ingeniously find ita its source in the latin valena valens vall valiant gallant according to them in issing pissing p fro i i the latin into the nor man french his this word took a g in pen of the and a logical develop mant of it was the noun galantin ea lantin a lover of women As ard of the girls upon a young man that site calls hers dy by this moans means each has aa two alou tires but the man mall sticks faster to the valentine that la Is fallen to him than the valentine alentine to whom he la Is fallen singing cupidi are th fit chorister chor latera and th anti tal instead of tho the crozier tho the nis mystical arrow Is borno borne before thee I 1 in lit an uld old english ballad bal lail the lasses aro arc directed to pray cross legged to st valentine for or luck in some parti of england tho the poorer classes 01 ol children array them themselves selNes fantastic all and visit the houses of the v balth singing GI morning morn lii to yon you balentine Na curl 3 sour our li it acks as I 1 ilo do mine IWO I 1 wo befaro and three behin I 1 good wo row to you Na lentine A poetical version Ve rilon A poetic picture of this custom Is found in poor Al manack for the ear 1757 this day bright rhoeby enters rhe mal I 1 will have rood good alore of kis kosc es I 1 jr ir kiwayo when tho run cines c ines there N 1 I iny la is dwir nd hoth the turn mon ind ni elds incline ro chue chu their them edilh a valentine exl mi if al prin ieta ete one he boex it hi et ati her ilat a n pair 1 lit gleeso oa 01 nd h 1 the th wn i i member chho thi I 1 10 0 fk nf the anor with n kle klys this kiss b brata gelpi more lo 10 lov nna than that love loe begets a i kis 4 agrin aln I 1 i til this tride tr ule the nian man iloth doth catal ani 1 thon he lie attai ailt hi propone tho the matcak 1 ah hl woman r willi willinar nir ht h phe nh a ashy ah Q alex tto t ninn rt ft reply I 1 11 not reboh 1 e on thing or othar 7 rill I 1 irit m mv mother N hen lion 1 ha anio rr rn tl IN hl hilt a brunt grant aal 1 maa aw li aalten 1 r colpert con rt dieny ons were em rold ered on tho the original icil bt valentine tra ditico and some of thorn them aro are held in honor even to thia this day one la Is found in this most curious extract from womans Aci mans diary bubli blied in an old time english periodical last friday was st valentine valentines a day and the night before I 1 rot got five bay leaves and pinned four of hem them af lon T W aa IWO J Z I 1 i a L A r IV A to t 21 3 v 4 IJ r A ja tx 4 all N 7 wa aw THE M MARAUDERS ARAUD ERS louis lines unes da that any artiche upon tt it must necessarily bo be a reminder of that which la Is already cnown 1 it bag been the theme of numberless i poeta poets and after all nothing better expresses the spirit writ of this festival since upon the exten extension glo a of Christ christianity lanit it assumed tta its character thai than the allne of that resh fresh voiced english poet tho the rel ret john donne aho vho waa was 1 with shakespeare lall half hilltop coee da i la Is all the air la is thy diocese and all the chin chirl ing aa chorister choristers and other birda birds are thy parishioners chou marry pott aery very sear 1 the lyric irk 1 and the grae whispering alove rhe ip irrow that neglect neglects tits life tor for love ohp household bird with the red atom HIM ach r thou the blackbird bird ne an ae As doth the gald finch or the holdon ali dy more f bee r fully than ver ever hanf th thia day which enflame thyself old rallen tinel tho the germ of the celebration of st valentines day la Is found in nature it elf self it was first a pagan a tribute to the ho fecundity of the tarth carth and of roan man personified in pan and juno and there la Is ii acason aioo to believe that its was identical with that of a pelagian festival observed in I 1 lallum bearre the time of 0 tit and remus and rought roue ht thither br evander fromar from ar oil ap s church crud dot not do otherwise thau tolerate tol erato the custom when the name narue of a patron saint waa was substituted by popular fancy for that cf of juno Is 1 no clear elear account of how st valentine came to be made the bishop of the diocese of 10 loe e wi which doane bonno so prettily describes there jure are several st Valeni Valen pes iea and it la Is not tint even knowd to a certainty which of these awni the in invisible isible mitre tho the ono one who died a martyr at homo rome drda claudius s ls fi however ho efer moat spoken of in this connection some authorities say that ho he was tho the bishop of a material diocese and others mat he be was vas a presbyter wheatley writes that ho he was a roan man of moat most admirable parts and so a famous for his charity and anti love that tho the choos chons of valentines upon hia his festival took rise from thence in this explanation plan atlon however the cause Is evi dently mistaken mis 11 for tho the effect the custom of choosing valentines was already established and chancing through its derl derivation atlon from the pagan teat fest nul tal to fall upon tho the ides idea of feb t eb junry ih th which also alga occurred elthor tho the birth or the martyrdom of st valentine lentine phd of the name to td that custom was as moat most natural ural in view of hie his character valiance valla ace la ij another sense are san it was as aisy for gabatin ga latin to bome bk ome va lantan or alantin N it Is peasant sant to leave all these conjectures jec tures eldo alter after simply passing baem t tiem tn in review and to determine merely rely tor for the delectable bolei table purposes of the imagination that wo me will join with charles I 1 amb and other most worthy orthy dreamers in regarding st S valentine as a real teal bishop who has a cry ery charming mission in connection ith the love affair affairs of humanity thus does the inimitable lamb apostrophize troph ize him liko like unto thee as sur si iradi adl there la Is no kitred tather lather in tho the w lender colendar thou contest attended with alth thousands and ana ten thousands little loves 4 and th air la Is 11 with the kim klos of 0 buntling runt ni ittin ling wins wings iho writer oft enest quoted for a characteristic description of tho old manner of observing the right of st valentine is Ml malitson Mif itson a trench french traveler an equal number of maids and men get together ho le raa each writes their true or soma feigned name upon separate Be billets which they roll up and draw by way pf lots I 1 the maids taking the mens billets and the ho moi mea the maids a that each of the young men eghte upon tho the girl that ho he calls his valentine and each avon to the four corners of roy my pillow pa ilow and the fifth to tho the middle and then it if I 1 dreamt of my sweetheart betty eald said we e should bo be man led before the year was out but to make it more sure I 1 boiled an egg hard and took out the he youk and ft filled 11 pd it with bait salt and when I 1 went toi o 0 lied bed eat cat it shell and all without speaking or drinking after it ve we also wrote our lovers namee names upon bits of paper and rolled them up lit in lit clay and put them into katr r and the first that rase roae up was to bo be our valentine would 30 phink think it mr blosson wag my man I 1 lay abed and shut roy my eyes all the morning till he cad to our oar homo tor for I 1 would cot not have seen another man before him borall tho the world horld gay tate poet pact hat prated in iho the mouth month of a country la las gatho tho well known tradition that tho the first person whom hom one day Is to become ones spouse she sings last lh the day when when birds at pf kind 4 14 11 1 their Ki by mutual chir chirping pings april I 1 en ly jy roe rose just at ane break of day creore I 1 the aun sun had phased the stars tar away A held 11 I 1 went antlee the morning dew to milk my kine for so 10 should house wivel 10 lo do abe first I 1 X uple pled daDd ara the first dalri 1 vr e in atte spite fortune hairejr hai rear true lv I 1 1 1 J |