Show I LEAP ILI GIRLS TO HAVE OPPORTUNITY TOMORROW NIGHT St. St Valentines Valentine's Day Dj Will Brim Joy Jov to Seating Hearts and kind the Ike Waiting O Oto Maidens Will Have ORe One Chance I I to to Pop the Qu Question stion men and md maidens fair fail tomor tomorrow row is your lily All AU yc ye vrho arc burdened with heart- heart yearnings s get Zet et busy y for St. St Valentino Valentine patron of all who have bavo itches in in c cardiac legions will hold sway vay for twenty four full fun hours February Fob Fob- ruai 11 H is b the flay day to toll toU her how nice nico it will n be to live livo in a steam heated flat how ho easy casy it is to get alon along on 10 per ler and to provo prove to her that t two tO O can live Jive as cheaply as IS on one Xo No real reil Romeo will let Jet this day of go o b by without asking some fair Juliet JuieL to become hi his for always Not only ouy will j the tho Romeos havo have an inning inning- but the especially alIr those who have watched fearfully the tho bloom fade fado from their checks win will will this year ear havethe have ha-c havethe the right of way Chance of Lifetime Leap year and St. St Valentines Valentine's day in leap year yar come infrequently If your Romeo fa fails Js to make gol Rood good tomorrow tomorrow- ni night ht when the lamps are arc low on anti and tho the hour is late hate tell teU him fair Juliet all an 3 about bOllt it You ha have e the right t so uso it Many parties of a special nature have havo been planned by hy tho the pleasure loving young youn people of Salt J Lake ake City rHy for to tomorrow tomorrow to to- morrow morrow night Dances and parties of nil all descriptions description will be bo J given ven The Tho ultra thing to do do however St. St Valentines Valentine's day is not to give o parties but to exchange ex ex- cb change gifts especially pictures livery Every gift ift mu must t have bae about it some somo suggestion tion of a heart hart to be he strictly in accordance with v. the customs tomB of the day What Boys Give This does docs oe- oe not app apply to the gifts little hOj boys s will make to their teachers leathers and andI I t the I he fathers and mothers sisters and brothers of their hated infantile ene ene- mit mies Like many another of our Christmas customs and nd observances our Fe Festival of Love Lo which we wc celebrate Fe February 14 H originally was a h heathen athen festival Long before the Christian era tho Ro- Ro mans celebrated the feast of tho the Luper Luper- calia calia the joint festival of Juno and ron Pan Pan 15 each Pan on February J year ar was a rustic god Jod formed in iu similitude f of nature whence hence he ha was raB called Pan which means meane all 11 It was wa feigned b by bythe bythe the poets that ho struggled with love and ind was ras conquered by bv him bim and it became be be- came camo proverbial that Love Lo c conquers conques all Omnia vincit amor ainor Tuno Juno was wa the th goddess of marriage the of youths and maidens How low Romaus Enjoyed Day In the year of our Lord A. A D D. D Roman youths an and main maidens ens still were celebrating the at which the names tames of young oung women were cast into an m urn and drawn rawn by blindfolded men The maid thus drawn was the young Youn mans man's mans H valentine and the as association oc resulting from this drawing dravin of lots usually itsu- itsu ally lusted lasted for a Ii year The Tile festival al ended in nn an extra Ef extravagant mt feast an and quite luite often in scandalous or orgies This sort of thing became offensive to the tho church and Pore Pope ordered a change Now No ow it so happened that one oue jf of the thc most moet luster austere saints in the Christian Chris Chris- tian finn calendar good Bishop St. St tine ine had been put to death durin during tho the Claudian persecution on February 14 A. A D. D 20 for tho the simple miracle of opening the blind c eyes of his jailers jailer's daughter Accordingly the da day of the festival festi was changed to February 14 and the name of the good o Jd bishop sun sub for tb the old one TIle The names of or saints paints were weh substituted for those of maidens in the public drawings s and each youth was enjoined to imitate the virtues vir vir- tues of the saint whose name he drew Church Interfered How Itow long the Christian youth stood for this we have no means of knowing know in ing but Saint Valentino's name stuck to the day thenceforward It seems seem however howe that in the sixteenth century in France the boys s were choosing girls girls' names and the girls boys' boys names so 0 that each had bad two valentines and a again ain we find t the e church interfering This timo time it was the Bishop Saint Francis do rio Sales who ho endeavored to suppress this survival survival sur sur- vival rival of paganism by the same old oId device de lIe levice le- le vice ico which Pope rope had tried But good St. St Francis reckoned with ith due duo con consideration aide ration for human nature the spring nJ of youth and Jo Jove lovo making which nich after all exists in Christian youth as IS aswell aswell well as pagan And to the young people triumphed over this thiR saint and returned by bJ degrees to their heathenish practices and cavalier and lady b by lot Jot smiles and silken favors Balls and ann fetes were cre J given en iu in honor of the festal day dar and ami in some places the tender bond for a 11 i year according to the old Rom Roman LD custom Pretty Gifts Then Jn In those e days valentines were pretty gifts to some somo friend chosen for tho day The 13 lad lady y valentines of tho sixteenth and and seventeenth centuries were V honored not by liy anonymous verse but hut h by substantial gifts Ift Old PCp M diary records almost yearly larl allusions to St. St day tells ue us that Fe February 14 1 1861 1801 lIe he took Mrs Ils Marta Martl the wife wIre of hi his bis friend frien Sir W. W Bratten for his valentine adding Meting in in parentheses that ho he did id it it only for complacency And Sir W. W in in like manner took Mrs P for his valentine valentino and ani so 90 were very merry February IS 18 squaD squaD- dered forty shillings on Lady Laly Bratten upon a pano of If embroidered and six BIX pl Jr of plain whit whito gloves February u. ar ary ary 21 Sir W. W Bratten ent Mrs s half a dozen pair of gloves Iov s and In a pair of ot silk stockings s and Lud garters for lor her valentine Curious Practices Th The following account of some curious curl curi ous OUN St. St t. t Valentines Valentine's day practices was l published in in tho tho Connoisseur s a 11 pub printed about the year YC l jO Last Last Friday was Si St Valentines Valentine's day l and tho the night before I got tot five 11 bay leaves aud and pinned four of theta to the hc four corners of iny my pillow and aud tho the M fifth h to the middle and aud then if I of my sweetheart tb Betty Detty said aid we should be ba married before tho the year oar was ns out Tint But to make malco more sure I it d an n a-n egg K hard harti and arid took out oat tho the yolk olk and and fill filled d it with salt an and when I went to bed ate ato it shell and all with with- I out speaking or oi drinking after it Ye Ve e also aho wrote our lovers lovers' names bits bita of paper and aud rolled them up in clay elay and put them thom into waler water and nUll the tho first that rose up lip was wag to bo ho our OUI valentine Would you OU think it il i Mr Blossom was W my man I lay nh abed 1 anti and shut shin my eyes s 's all t tho he morning till he came canie to our house for I would not see seo another man before h him im for all nIl tho world Valentine Chorus In sonic some English villages even yet ct tho the c custom of is ob observed ened Th The children gather ather early carly in the morn morn- i ing ng and go o from house to house sin singing in s some ome chorus like Good morrow morro to you rou Ya Valentine Curl your our locks lock as aR I do mIne Two before and three behind Good Goo morrow to you Jou Valentine The children ren arc Ire rc rewarded with little notions pennies or candies cd to t them hem from the windows s. In tho the latter part of tb the d eighteenth c century the the valentine valentine alentine thosa thoo those ornate c creations of lace paper silver and gilt a artificial flowers scrap pictures and aud s sentimental verse which verse which we know kno grew rew from the simplest t processes by n natural de degrees res of elaboration Before v valentines became a recognized article o of f merchandise lovers were constrained t to o construct their own A quill a sheet o of f writing paper and find ability to tD write nit doggerel was tho the equip m eat Soon thero there appeared obliging l little ittle chapbooks called the Gentle mans man's Ke New Valentine Writer Cupids Cupids Cu 1 pid's S Annual Charter TIle School of Love Lo an and the Ladies Polite Valentine Valenine Valen Valen- t tine ine Writer Verses on Love I There Thero also was a a. valentine writer iter f for or and one for the joker c called the Quizzing Valentino Valentine Writ Writ- e er r r. r These u valentine writers were cre little s 5 six penny pamphlets containing cont choice choices s specimens eimen of doe doe- doggerel for almost aJmo t all dorces degrees de do- grees g of love lo and sentiment Hero arc are area a few samples Round found Is the Tin rIng that has lias no end You are witty Ht you rou ou are pretty prett You are aro single What a pH pity I am single for or your sake salie What hat a handsome couple we shall shaH make In the tra Valentine Writer valentines for almo almost t every t trade rade and prof profession were provided Here is one for tho the pawnbroker I pl pledge d e m my nu word cord for or thee I live And am sincere when honor calls 0 Oh 1 then m my ray dear ilear an answer give hc You know where to to-at to at the three balls baBs The Thc grocers grocer's was as follows Your breath Is spice all I declare And youre you're so fO neat and handy That you youre you're re as sweet J i think my ray fair As plums or sugar candy Br Be favorable I These e verses cr kindly weigh And If tr ou will m my heart re restore tore Ill I'll treat you OU to some aone tea ta Maids Maid's This the maids maid's was scornful answer Your letter r Ive I've weighed Am truly afraid Many pounds youre you're deficient in weight And so Mr MV Grocer 1 Id I'd d hn have you ou to know linow Sir I care not a fig for tor your our treat Oftentimes these home made mado vales valen t tines ines were wen of tho the cut or torn paper variety beant beautiful ul designs being worked out by br cutting or tearing the paper A About bout the year 1800 the manufactured article began bee to steal away the early charm ot of St. St Valentines Valentine's day a Transformation Transfer Transformation mation nation i scones were a conceit of the Gorman German manufacturers A lono lone bachelor sits and his fato of ness until a t shifting scene reveals to him what hat bliss life would be with her of bis his dreams Tho The moro more elaborate of these manufactured valentines were wonderful examples of human in and aDd handicraft and borne very cry e ci- ci pen pene pensive S iv e e. e Made Valentines The manufacturer u of vaen valentines fifty years cars a ago o gave c a remunerative employ ment to an army of women to whom th the work of construction was 38 Germany German furni furnished hed tho most of the tho material ma ma- tonal in bulk for valentines but the beautifully made artificial cambric roses each cach no longer on er than thun a t pea were made in iii French convents b by women to whom when valentines were never sent and who were vowed to celibacy and single i a r life The rhe anonymity of the remembrance is its charm as in tho the case of the young youn I artist of Charles Lambs Lamb's s 's acquaintance I who bo expended e hours hour and aud h his best beet work on a Valentino valentine for his nei neighbor a i youn young I girl irl with whom he lie had never spoken I but whoso ra radiant girlhood l bad had given cu j I him joy to behold To her surprised oes came his exquisite testimonial And Anil like liko pleasure shared our our grandmothers grandmothers grand grand- nd mothers when in the good old days H foI folded fold fold- ed f 41 sheets with lace edges and most mot del dol h handwritten wr verses beneath crudely sentimental sketches found foun their insi insidious ious way under their front door |