Show custom very old the origin of the valentine Is said to have existed for a long time that originally the old maids and bachelors would meet and all names were written on slips and drawn and the one each drew was to be his or her valentine for a year and that often these temporary engagements becalel permanent later the custom ha drifted into the sending of pictures first representing cupid with his ar rows at work but later still to he sending of horrible caricatures ol 01 one sort or another intended as a sort of joke on the one receiving the valen tine mo tribune j asad |