Show st Valenti valentines neg day super superstition station is nearly as old as roan man and I 1 that it exists now nov quite ay as strong though not as widespread wide spread as in the early ages acs of our world is proved b by y the various various rites and ceremonies ceremonies practiced on oil certain daya day throughout the year even those who ridicule them yet p participate in them teem just jus t for fun 11 have a lingering half s suspicion in their minds thatis that it might come true especially is this the case when inclination paints the way st valentine is the acknowledge patron saint of lovers and the peculiar customs connected with the lay day wore were referred to by writers nearly years ago the st valentine who suffered martyrdom marty dom on oil the of february my was one of the fifty two saints of that name hut but nothing has been found in his life or in tho the lives of any of them that would give occasion for tile the singular observance of the day IL ii has been maintain ed that it was ari an ancient custom among the Rui komans lians during the celebrated in the in month of february for the men and boys to draw the names of their future wives in honor of thir goddess juno and that the christian clergy findan finding it absolutely impossible to abolish this heathen custom changed it to a reli religious iotis mony by whitin writing r on oil tho tild slips of paper instead jUStet ld of the kinles of women those of particular saints whom they were ivere to follow and imitate during the year year |