Show f H M I t f- f M II 4 H M H M M 4 M i M 4 H 4 H I M 4 M H I 4 M I f M M IiI I r ST. ST VALENTINES VALENTINE'S DAY Ii J JV V M t M t t t M t t M M t M I t I I M I I M I M M M t I M I I M t t M t M t M M M 7 Let us mourn the decadence of this venerable venerable and once highly honored Saints Saint's day In the good old times its rising sun was greeted by love-lorn love swains waiting under the windows of their gentle Valentines for the fair ones to appear and receive receive receive re re- re- re their offerings of flowers or jewels and their of devotion de tion singing love lays the while All that is past and gone Such lovers and maidens have vanished ages ago perhaps who knows to meet and live lie together in a happier world where love reigns and rules for ever and ever and partings are arc unknown Yet after all the spirit of f St. St Valentines Valentine's Day has not altogether I departed with the generations that held it in greatest greatest great great- tl est esteem It is not quite forgotten by the lads and lasses of our own era eia e a material and I thou though h it be There are lovers and Valentines now as always and equally with their long forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten ancestors ancE the former joy to lay some token of affection at the feet of their sweethearts on the occasion of the festival Posies and pretty trifles bon bou bons and the like are yet in vogue on St. St Valentines Valentine's Valentines Valentine's Valentines Valentine's Val Val- entines entine's Day and we hope always will be Pure and hearty old customs it were a sin to abolish This morning early no doubt many a gallant youngster among us even though he might not know the lines and never had heard of them at heart was saying with the ancient poet Oft Oft have ha I heard both youths and maidens say sav Birds choose their mates and couple too tod this day But by bv their flight I never ver can divine When I shall couple with my Valentine d |