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Show Love's Lottery. Ono often wonders how St. Valentine's Valen-tine's day ever got a start. It Is said that In Kngland and Franco tho young folk were given to plnylng a game In which tho numes of nil tho girls nnd boys were written on tiny slips of papor, pa-por, thrown into a gonoral rccoptaclo, and thon drawn out lottery fashion, enro bolng taken of courso that each porson draws tho namo of ono of tho othor sex. Tho porson thus drawn became ono's Valentino, and the allotment allot-ment docrocd by fato was supposed to lmposo upon the couplo a sort of loyalty loy-alty for tho coming year. All of which sounds vory romantic and beautiful, but which In plain fact must havo mixed things up foarfully, and It Is a question whether or not fato always selocted tho, right maiden or tho rleht beau. |