| Show i 0 old U time 7 ime missives fo for r ih the e da day a 13 E 5 t as that delightful old v gossip cf ct the reign ol 01 jt OF charlea charles it enter in hta his diary on valentines day 1657 1667 this morning came t little will melser to too be my wife valentine and a nd brought her name written wr itten upon blue paper in rold gold letters done by himself very pretty wp were both well pleased with it but 1 I am ain ala aw this year toy my difed valentine vale at 1 ne and it will coat cost me fire pounds but that I 1 must have laid out it we had not been valentine valentines two day days later pepy says III find and that mrs pierce pierces little girl la to my val entine she he having drawn me which I 1 am sorry for it ea easing ilg me sue of some thing more wore I 1 must have given to others du 1 I do first observe th the fashion of drawing mottoes an well as names so that pierce naho rho drew my wife did also draw a motto and bis his girl drew another for or me m what inane tolne was I 1 forget but my wa was most courteous and most fair which as an it may be used as a an engagement upon each name might be very pretty bus has a great deal to tell about valentines and what he says show shows that the day waa was ob observed stirred in the high est eat fashionable circled and that eapen sive presents were given lie ile describes how the duke of york being the valentine of at ilion stuart a fa beauty gay her bara jewel valued at rt 2900 and how lord Blande villeAr other valentine of at this lucky women presented her with a ring worth A man had to have bay money to keep up with st valentines procession la in the age of king charles II 11 I 1 dut but fully as an interesting and much more strange were the fit valentines customs cus among the common people many flany of the observances were shugu barly like those of halloween they were not so grew some but the lesem blance Is unmistakable for instance ft a pert rates who lived in the writes last friday was valentines Valentine 2 day and nd the night before I 1 got aye bay leaves and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow and the fifth to the middle and then if it I 1 dreamt of my sweetheart betty said we should be married batore the year ye r wae was out but nut to make it more tu I 1 boiled an egg hard and took out abe ti yolk and sited W it with salt and ate it shell and all without speaking par or drinking after it wo we also wrote our lovers names upon bits of 0 paper and rolled them hem up in clay and put then them into water and the first brat that same to was to be our valentine there have ben boen device devices for valentine valentines but perhaps the ibe on record in Is that described in the oa 01 following little tory story one st valentines morning un an english gentleman remarked to hie his pretty daughter that on that day more letter letters than the average paused through the london poet why papa replied the girl that juet just taz aber limber ot at young folk talk that must be in love with each other the way to reckon at that moment a bachelor friend of the family came in and learning teaming the subject of at their talk drew a email small package from his pocket cleree lle ree my valentine he exclaimed and presented it to the young woman it contain contained td a email small rib barki carved d of ivory and covered with white batio and ornamented with true conre knot knots there were aleo also some verse vere of which thin this ie Is one rill afim had a partner given much as fair wr edon bloomed like Ilea herven vono tit Is biss bit was w incomplete no ha SO tal friend tho joy lo 10 khar share gave the kay scene a scant air she came camet wM all well now I 1 call that capital cried the lively lass after such a valentine you must take the hint ray my lear air its it sett settled lod you milt mi get ge married will you marry me met he anslik 1 I marry you no you are too old nut but there are many women of your age why dont you ask one ot of them he ile haal had to be contented with thia this orry sorry consolation though he desera a better fate for the ingenuity of bis his valentine st valentines day haa has always beef favorite with the poeta poets it la is mentioned by Chau chaucer cert shakespeare 0 aoe o ohp donne oay lydgate and others and many first class verifier verd fier have Iv written ritten valentine of theae these aone none Is more remarkable thai macaulay Maca that renowned scholar and historian hie torian never missed giving a bt st valentine valentines tribute to his favorite nieces and hia valentine to the countess Count ps beauchamp daughter of the eart of stanhope ranka ranks with the moat most admirable of hia big composition compositions it is A pity that th tho line old of et valentines day Is not mat made a inore no re of by thia this generation somo some ahing abing should be done to bring back to it the charu charm the lomance om ance the poetry t f other time times happily la in the laist few year rears the I 1 oaf c valentines have been more humorous and leee less val garThe tbt sunday rj agazine 0 h A s i |
