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Show LONG KNOWN AS THE DAY OF HEARTS AND LACE 'Tor this was on sevnt Valentines day, Wbiiu every biid couictli thcr to bo.-e bis mate.' Chaucer. The old notion wus that birds began be-gan to choose their mates In February. Febru-ary. Then Marcus Aurellus Klavius Clauilius had u bishop 'of the church put to death on H l'cbruary. sevenieen hundred and fifty-two yea in ago. The bishop became a martyr and a saint and because Ids name was Vuleutinas February 14 became bis day. St. Val-entine'M Val-entine'M day. It Is easy to find some satirical sig nitieatv e in the superposition on the calendar of these days, the bishop's and Hie bird's, ll tai.es so-.n-lhing of 'lie courage of a Christian iino'lyr to inihlirly (boose a male. They used to draw lots on :'t. Valentines eve. the coung men and the young women galhcred ti getlicr, makii.g merry. And it is sale to M'ppu.-e that when young man was not pleased with his lot, lie mail-? sarcastic remarks, until it occurred to Mm to transfer his bitterness bit-terness Into drawings woleh e: g geialeil the ctosseil eyes or the stra'ght . hair or the ugly expr"ss'on of the unlovvd one. I laving venied ids own uinlh. he could then show il lo her, thus spoiling the even'nL' for olli of them, but possibly satlsMn' the "grouch" that nt some seasons nf-'lir-ts evi ii lovers. It's a fortunate thing that the people who slafi cuslotns which are lo last tint i 1 the planet cools, have no notion of wind they are starting. Fancy poor old Vnlenrine's d'smiiy as he ascended lo rhe slake, if he bud realized that his name would he taken in vain by every yomifi man making amorous mlvan -es to n young wunnn along in the early spring urn your valentine," nol knowing that what lie way really saying say-ing wns. "I miii vour martyr." And those Chaucerian boys and girls, meeting meet-ing to choose Valentines fancy the Irrilaled one with a talent for drawing draw-ing suddenly seeing himself at the bend of n Ion? line of urg dlant youths. I. if- effort at satire the t'orerunivr of all the ur-ly comics that ever made n maiden blush or a matron lo.-e her lemper. Put It migh' have made II. e sweet-.sonled sweet-.sonled your.li a bit smug when he en closed his undying affection In gib and lace and wrapped it in a s.veot-scenied s.veot-scenied fern, to look down the years ahcao of him al the I ruck loath, the ear h'nils. the factories built i:o pro dueo .Inst such lace and gill and silver concrete lo'cens of an in-tinct no less oeauliful hecau'v; It frequently is evanescent |