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Show Love's Lottery. One olten wonders how St Valentino's Valen-tino's day ever got a start. It Is said that In Knglnnd and Franco tho young folk wore given to playing a game In which the names ol all the girls and boys wero written on tiny slip of paper, pa-per, thrown Into a general receptacle, und then drawn out lottery fashion, euro being taken or courso that each person draws the namo ot ono or tho other sex Tho person thus drawn became, ones valentine, nnd the allotment allot-ment decreed by late was supposed to Imposo upon the couple a sort ot loyalty loy-alty lor tbo coming year All ot which sounds very romantlo and beautiful, but which In plain fact must havo mixed things up fearfully, and It Is a question whether or not fate always selected tho right maiden or tho right beau |