Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-02-13
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sr. VALENTINES DAY.

Tomorrow will be st. Valentines day
and from tho signs of the times, Postmaster
CAUL, may prepare for many calls. S.
BUcKLAND q Co.'S Store, where the Valcn-
entine's have been kept for sale, has been
throngcd from "early morn till dewy eve"
with fair young girls and nice young men,
bent on mischief. Some of these slender
missivcs" will be sent as messengers of love,
many for sport, many from malice, many
from revenge for unrequitcd affection, and
many others from mere motives of pure
deviment. But let the motives be what
they may, the post office will be thronged-
while many hearts may beat high with ex-
pectation, some will be doomed to disap-
pointment We extract the following from
an old exchange:
The custom ofsending Valentinesis is one Of
ancient date, and is generally observed
throughout Christendom. Two hundred
thousand letters beyond the usual daily av.
erago, annually pass through the two-penny
post Offices in London on ST. Valentines
day.
ST. Valentine is the lovers saint, not thai
lovers have moro superstition than othel
people, but their imaginings are more
The slender passion" in the two mile al
hour Jehu of an eight horse wagon, puzzle
him nightly. He sighs and drives, sigh
and drives and drives and sighs again, til
the approach of this festival enables him t.
buy "Valentine" with "halter" and
"couplc of hearts" transfixed with an arrow
in the form of weathercock, inscribed
"Tn be yours you'll be mine,
am your pleasing Valentine"
This he gets his name written under b.
the shopkeeper, and will be quite sure tina
it is his name before he walks after his wag
l. on, which he has left to go on, because ne
ther that nor his passion can brook della,
After he is out of town, he looks benin
him, lest any body should see, and for
mile or two on the road, ponders on th
"two hearts made one" as most singula
device, and with admired devotion. II
then puts it in the trusty pocket under tn
frock, which holds the wagon bill, and fog
his horses to quicken their pace towards til
inn where ''she who is his hearts delight
has been lately promoted to the rank of III
der kitchen maid, vice her who resigned, O
being called "to the happy state of matr
mony" by a noighboring carter. He give
her the mysterious paper in the yard, 81
p receives it with 'what be this 2" and wit
a smack on the lips, and a smack from th
= whip on the gown. The gods have mad
him poetical and from his recollection of
:. play he saw at the fair, he tells her th'
5 loye, like worm in the mud, has has pla,
d ed upon his lammas cheek" ever since la
Lammas-tide, and she knows it has, an
!, that she's his Valentine. With such pc
sons and with nature this is the season
breaking the ice.
On Valentines day 1867, Mr.. Pepys
). his Diary says: "This morning came !
to my wife's bedside, l being up dressir
II myself little Will Mercer TO her Valentil
and brought her name written upon bl,
paper in gold letters, done by himself, We
pretty, pretty; and we were both well Piles
n cd with it. But ! am also my wife's Vale
tine, and it will cost me f5, but that mt
have laid out ifw had not been Valentine
: 1t does not appear, bye tho bye, how PEP
y became his wife's Valentine.
In Scotland tho custom of drawing v
entines has been kept up for many, ma
L. years. An intelligent traveller in speak,