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ft AT (Til DAY, FEB. lO, lOOG.
The Two Valentines.
1892-1907.
A box with pale blue ribbon bound,
Unlooked for, by her plate she found,
"From J. to M., in memory
Of years and hopes that used to be,"
She scanned the card with languid eyes,
Austere, and cold, and worldly wise,
And scarce remembered, from the lines,
The day was good Saint Valentine's,
But with deft fingers she untied
Her husband's gift, and faintly sighed,
A ransom for a king, each strand
Of threaded pearl lay in her hand.
And once again she read the lines
And thought of other valentines.
Through all that day she seemed to hear
The strange words sounding in her ear
Half mockingly: "In memory
Of years and hopes that UBed to be !" .
And some old self within her woke,
Some dim voice through the dead past spoke,
Then from a long forgotten nook
With hesitating hands she took
A cheap and flimsy heart of blue,
By arrows all pierced through and through,
Bound which poor, faded cupids trooped,
"With lacework fringed and ribbon looped,
And smiling through half bitter sighs,
She dashed the hot tears from her eyes
And gazed on that old valentine,
And read the scrawled and boyish lines:
"From J. to M., with love so true,
Dear sweetheart, eighteen ninety-two.
(Arthur Stringer in Everybody's Magazine.)
Why ?
Were I to buy a valentine
For you, my dear,
Two loving hearts should close entwine
Of course they'd be your own and mine
With Cupid near.
Then in the first fond, loving heart
There'd be a dart,
Fresh shot from Cupid's daring bow
It's been there many moons, I trow
But why that start?
You thought it was your heart I meant
With arrow spent!
It was my own; but, dearest, bark!
If your heart too has been a mark,
Why, spend a cent!
Lurana W. Sheldon.
V P P
Force of Haul.
There was once a penman so queer
He wrote on a typewriter clear;
And when he was through
Pray what did he do
But hang it up over his ear.
ORIGIN OF VALENTINES
HE valentine is an in
heritance that has come
down to us through an
almost interminable span
of years, and the love
sentiment that has made
the day one peculiarly of love and lovers
has hitherto remained untouched through
the many changed forms that have char
acterized the festival.
The brilliantly humorous cards that
are sent to the 20th century maid and the
gilt and lace repository of the freckled
boy's heart's secret have a common be
ginning. It is a far cry from our civilization back
to the ancient kingdom of Rome, pre
decessor of the republic ; and yet the two
are connected by a straight chain of val
entine custom. When you sent that
dainty card or gay lithograph you were
perpetrating a rite that has come down
through many changes from the Juno
worship of the days of Numa.
The evolution of it is easy to trace. Any
one familar with the ' play of Julius
Caesar knows that its action begins on
the feast of Lupercalia, a great public re-
ligous festival. Caesar bids his wife,
Calphurnia :
Stand you directly in Antonius' way,
When he doth run his course.
And to Antony:
Forget not in your speed, Antonius,
To touch Calphurnia, for our elders say
The barren touched in this holy chase
Shake off their sterile curse.
The lines mean that Marc Antony was
one of the priests of the ceremonial that
day. These were always specially chosen
for the occasion, and part of their duty
was to rush about at the head of the
splendid religous street procession of the
feast, garbed only in girdles of goatskin,
and strike with goatskin whips at all the
women who presented themselves. Those
who so courted the whiplash were mar
ried and childless.
The explanation of this curious cere
mony is that Lupercus was the Roman
god of fecundity. His festival was held
on Feb.15, or two days after the ides of
that month, as the Romans expressed it.
The Italian spring time was well begun
at that season, hence the weather was
propitious both to street pageant and to
festivals touching love, marriage and
parentage. Eggs were used symbolically
in many of the ceremonies, and that fea
ture of them is perpetuated in an Easter
custom of our own .
By a very pretty symbolism denoting
the necessity of purity or purification in
all relating to love, marriage and paren
tage, the day before the Lupercal was
devoted to Februetta Juno, goddess of
love's very youngest dream, as well as
of its fullest fruition. Both of these fes
tivals were established in the time of
Numo Pompillius.
According to "Butler's lives of the
Saints," one of the rites in the Februetta
Juno celebration was that boys and girls
"drew names" of each other and prospec
tive lovers, for which "heathenish, lewd
and superstitious custom" zealous Chris
tian pastors in after years caused the
names of saints to be drawn for on that
day.
So St Francis de Sales, we are told,for-
bade in Geneva, in the sixteenth century,
the custom of valentines or giving boys
in writing the names of girls to be ad
mired or attended on by them, and he
was one of those watchful pastors who
had saints' names drawn instead, so that
the young people might give their minds
temporarily, at least, to imitation of
these holy persons instead of lovemaking
It happened that Valentine, bishop or
presbyter, as he U variously styled, was
martyred in the reign of the Emperor
Clodius, A. D. 270, on the day of Febru
etta Juno. In due course -he was canon
ized, and what more appropriate day to
set aside as his than that of his martyr
dom.
It was consistently the practice of the
early Christian church to adopt and pu
rify such pagan festivals as had become
ineradicably rooted in the lives of the
unconverted peoples. Thus in good time
the feast of Februetta Juno was made
St. Valentine's day, a festival for begin
ning prudent and pious courtship. The
drawing of names continued, although
some of the more zealous pastors, as
Butler tells us, steadfastly set their faces
against the practice.
How the drawing was done and what
was the significance in middle-age Eng
land at least, are made plain by writers
of that nation and period. The practice
had long before reached that country,
following the spread of reformed Roman
customs all over Europe, through the
work of the missionaries.
An equal number of young persons of
each sex put little tablets inscribed with
their names into a box on St Valentine's
day. Drawings were made from the box
until each Jack had a Jill, and each com
panion so bestowed by fate was styled the
other's valentine. These were not neces
sarily expected to become lovers. The
young man had the right of custom to be
a sort of adopted cousin, whose friendship
might blossom into love-who could tell?
Presents were exchanged by the young
persons and the certificates of valentine-ship-the
little tablet drawn-was worn
proudly on the bosom for weeks, and
"That is my valentine" said Jack, or said
Jill, pointing at it. So in time came the
tablet to be called the valentine in place
of the person it named. The next step in
the evolution of the custom was for those
well pleased with their partners to make
presents of handome certificates to be
worn in place of the humble tablet.
Goldsmith, in the "Vicar of Wakefield,"
says it was the rustic habit of the time
he writes of to send them in the form of
true lovers' knots.
But by that time the drawing of names
was all over. Perhaps the zealous pastors
had gradually and by degrees sent the
tablets home to keep company with the
goatskin whip. According to Sir Walter
Scott, it must have passed away in Scot
land before the Reformation. For in his
"Fair Maid of Perth" he makes Harry
Smith and another gallant pay court to
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