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Show ;s LCs;r:G popular pavoh Pretty Custom of Sending Anonymous 'Valent.nes" Threatens to Co Entirely Out of Fashion. Valentine's day Is now utmost out of fashion. 1 fur after year the custom cus-tom of sending nin'iiv moils letters or cards of inn it.iry sit'nillcunce bus been i n the wane. True. It Is un undent custom. Instituted Insti-tuted long before the Christian era. end the day Is mentioned by .Shakespeare, .Shake-speare, (l.nucer. i lie ns well by I.yd-ti.le, I.yd-ti.le, who died in the middle of the i-'Hlecnih ceiiliiry. One of the earliest known writers of valentines, or poetical poeti-cal amorous addresses, was no less n peisoiinge than Onirics, duke of Orleans. Or-leans. Drayton, a contemporary of Slinkii'peare. wrote: Muse bid the morn nwaka, S;td winter now Ue lines; 1- ach b rd doth choose a mate. This day's St. Valentine's: Cor that pood bishop's sake Cot up and let us see What bi auty It shall be Thai fortune us ns.-.ins. Nothvvitbstanding the reference to the "good lush ip." many claim that St. Yuleniine had nothing to do wiib the mutter beyond the accident of li Is day being used for Hie purpose. . |