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Show Valentine Customs and Superstitions of Old There were certain superstitions dur Ing early times which now seem entirely en-tirely to have passed away. For Instance, In-stance, If a young girl, on the eve or St. Valentine day, went alone and waited until midnight on the porch of a church, then started for home, scattering scat-tering hempseed on the way, It was believed she would see her own true love In a winding sheet raking the bampsecd behind ber. Wby he was supposed to be seen In a winding sheet has not been explained. Another superstition was most Interesting. In-teresting. If a young girl got Ave bay leaves and pinned one on each of the four corners of ber pillow, the remain Ing one to be placed In the center, and If that night ber sweetheart appeared In her dreams they would be married before the end of the year. It Is written f one young lady of those times that she confessed. In order or-der to make the churm more potent, to having boiled an egg perfectly hard, removed the yolk, filled the vacani place wltb salt and, upon going to bed. euten the entire egg, salt, shell and all. without drinking or speakjng to any one after she had On Jied the eating of It But tbe really, truly way to find out the name of your own true love was to write the name of all your admirers admir-ers upon bits of paper, roll them np In clay, put them In a vessel of water and the first one to rise to the surface sur-face was surely the one. The practice of sending comic valentines val-entines Is a mucb Inter one. Tbese caricatures which poked fun at people's peo-ple's personal appearance, their clothes and even the work In which they were engaged hod their greatest popularity perhaps 40 or CO years ago. Fortunately, Fortu-nately, they now seem to have tost their vogue. There Is no doubt that many friendships were severed and enemies made because of these frequently fre-quently offensive missives being sent wltb malice aforethought. Meanwhile, the pretty valentines-all valentines-all hearts, paper lace and cuptds seem to grow Oner each year. Beautiful Beauti-ful band-painted cards and painted and beautifully decorated boxes for confections con-fections are sold In great numbers. Not the least Interesting of the present-day valentines are the various and numerous assortments of packages filled wltb all the paraphernalia ready to be assembled Into lovely valentines wblcb children love to prepare for their teachers, friends and family. As It has now Become more a day for children than for grown-ups, these packages afford much pleasure to the sender and to the recipient |