New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-14
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St. Valentines Day.


day peculiarly adapted to the declaration Of love- is
OF avery olden date and continues growing more
and more popular with each succeeding year. The |
origin Of the custom lay among the Romans, who had
an usage of drawing the names of girls in honor of
Februata Juno this day, and thus assigning them,
bya sort ofpreminary ceremony, to future wedlock.
In the plastic mold of Olden English Celebrations,
the actual part of the observance soughed off and the
rosy tnts Of romance superyened We have given re-
surrecon and life, in some degree, to the entire
age, even while preserving the modern names.
So far as the actual course and character Of the
events Of the day here are concerned, itnatters very
little who worthy st. Valentine was, what influ
unce he was supposed to exert over dawning love-
With the young men and lnaidens who look anxiousy
forward to the days dawning, at present. there is
belief in any diabere greater than what is exercised
by the expression of reciprocal sentiment that seems
hted to go through as many changes as anew moon
before it becomes round and perfect in the east Of
human existence. They sec in it the occasion and
opportunity to say what their hearts might fail them
in expressing verbally and accordingly through many
mysterious channes--by means of pink paper ornate
with cooling doves; with hearts transfxed by arrows
presumed to be from the culver of Cupid; and with
portraits Of modern gaces dressed in the latest Paris
m0des-the great question is asked and answered.
on which a whole lfe's fortune tremblingly hangs
The Post Office is crowded with sweet scented enve
opes whose freight Of tenderness is fated to pass
through the unfeelng hands Of clerks and the
ceptble leather Of mail carriers before shall
reach its final haven and cause those bushes and heart
utterings which are its endorsement and acceptance
valid and negotiable in the great bank whose deposits
are love and esteem, even though disalowed by the
directors of the Louisiana and Canal banks; the bro
kers and buyers Of tangible, though representatives
exchange &
It would be a very curious study and research, if
research and study in such departments were possible
to follow out the history and career of one Of these for
innate declarations of love from the time when like
another Minerva. it began to quicken in the brain
rav;d wifi, its being tle moment IF notrition
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lodged and answered, carefully treasured among keep
sakes and memories too sweet to be touched by that
tooth of time whose acrid edge renders rough and
jagged SO many otherwise sound and perfect dreams;
or thrown careessy by for the inspection of curious
friends and inqustive visitors. Very many, howev-
err invest it with the full scope Of its pristine sign
cance and spend sleepess nights until the hoped for
recognition gds all the promise of attendant prayers
and places its crescent hope upon the topmost pima
Gle of their wishes. For such hope there may be
not only flowers but fruit when the seed nurtured by
their care shall have found its home and begun to ger
| inmate; and that their honest wishes may be dia-
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The day is dedicated to Kindness above and beyond
all, except that which commences each week.
Let its objects be remembered. ..,...' .......
| happy Valentines day to all our young friends.
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/ the Sd Baltimore and Washington of the 9th inst
There will be due at office, this morning. No 70
Camp street. the mails from New York of the 4th
stl 9Th ami III, inst We racoived roi1 fron, fba
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