Show ST VALENTINE IN YEAR 1754 love plaines plaints of youths and maiden certainly no sillier now than then some folks find everything worse ithan what its Is old among other things the behavior of youth is condemned as aa more thoughtless and inconsequential than ever before tho the young girl Is called unconscionably silly la in regard to men but just read this confession of a young girl in 1754 1764 last friday was fassl bt valentines day and the night before I 1 got five bay leaves and pinned four on the corners comers of my pillow and the fifth to the middle and then if I 1 dreamt of ray my sweetheart betty bald we should be married before the year was out dut but to make it more sure I 1 boiled an egg hard bard and took out the yolk and filled it with salt and when I 1 went to bed ate it shell and all without speaking or drinking after it we also wrote our lovers names upon bits of pap paper erand rolled them up in clay and put them into water and the first that row noeo was to be our valentine would you t think h ink I 1 it t A mr ir D blossom was my man I 1 lay abed and shut my oy ey s p all the morning till he carn cam ta u our house for I 1 would not arve r en another man before him for all the world probably the popular song of 0 today Is 1 the most inane form that the alpha bet has ever taken and yet in the eighteenth century the cabinet of love or cupids cupida repository used to contain this sort of thing the beauties ot of her ber polished mind it reeds needs no lovers eyo eye to find the hermit freezing in his hl cell might alah wish the gentle klaila welt well certainly the gentle flatla deserved the book and just listen you are the girl I 1 delight in much more than or if alila his nuy may not be quite so bad as the contemporary popular song hut but it worlds away possibly after all our predecessors clant have so much on us ua in the line of perfection on colliers Wee weekly lily |