Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-02-12
Ann,vsr.ar,es.-Ada,n and Eve. Day.

AnniVersartes.-AdaIna and Ewes Day.
We see Valentines in the windows aud learn, IN en-
CURRY that the anniversary of St Vaentne whoever ne
was will take pace-come off-be celebrated, on Sun
1ay next the 18th inst Whether it be the anniversary
of his birth, death marriage, are unable to say
1t is the general impression that he married
few if any of the saints that read about ever were
However the I4th will be Valentines day As to the
mode of its celebration say nothing Get the sta
tionery and send tget it good nice, with pretty YER
ses and call in few days to have the satisfaction OF
knowing that that COMPOUNDED Mr. Blank that you don't
like has got the credit of your gallantry and dimes
Yea, verify such things have occurred, and perhaps
will again.
We have good many anniversaries-we celebrate
the births and deaths of distinguished people, and the
occurrence of remarkable events but it strikes us that
we neglect this good cid earth of We suppose
she ought to have an anniversary well other peo-
pe She is several years old by this time and yet her
beginning has not received the honors of annual COM
memoration and indeed, it would be somewhat difficult
to determine upon what day Of the year to place the
birthday of respected planet whether in spring or
summer, fall Or winter? Perhaps it would require
week, but wha week? Upon the whole, we suggest, In
place of the EARTH that due honOrs be paid to Adam and
Eve Let US have Adam and Ewes day They, Ger.
tanly the first pair of oveers that we read about,
although there no evidence that Adam addressed gilt
edged perfumed notes to his fair sweetheart. He
made bouuets doubt, for he in garden and the
flowers were plenty and he had no messenger that
we know Of be, very likely, presented the boquets in
person assuring Miss EVe-soon to become Mrs. Adam
that the roses were nothing TO hep lips and their per-
fume not to be compared to her breath-al this and
more no doubt did Adam say if not in many words,
at least he looked plain words would have spoken
it. And Eve believed all he said for she was only a
baby in experience and she married Adam, and then
they fell from innocence fell out with each other and
fell out of the garden of Eden, We don't think their
marrying had anything to do with that for if Eve
hadn't been married ADAM she could have made even
bigger fool of him. which was not at all necessary
We need hardly say that great changes in the physical
appearance of the earth have taken place since the
good old days of Adam and of Eve -the air is colder
and the weather more variable. Costumes, too, have
progressed speaking more properly have been invent
ed together with all the numbercss arts of the toilet
We have occasionally doubted whether, for time
Eve in the habit OF washing her facc-at any rate
her abIutiOns must ayc been mperecy performed for
want of soap and towels and says that sage man. Mar
tin Farquahar Upper in his provefbai Philosophy
" What is beauty without soap" We ask the same
question.
We have been wandering III without developing the
object of our cducng any practical result from
them worthy of the greatness of their research and the
gravity Of their propositions. Now the reform we pro
pose is the substitution of new anniversary that Of
Adam and Eve as the day sacred to loveyers We dc
go,
Valentine appears to have been marricd-t being
next to impossible for married to be Saint-and
he therefore hardly be appropriate person to pre-
side the prelinnaries to marriage: and secondly
even if the different, Adam and Eve were
tainy the first married couple and to them by virtue OF
discovery and exploration belongs the right of presiding
over the whole domain of matrimony and its several
appurtenanccs and dependencies.
Considering the change of climate-the progress o
civilization and many other good and sufficient reasons
not now necessary to cnumerate presume that d
literal revival of the habits and customs not to say
tunes of the best society of Eden would hardly be
advisable even upon the anniversary named i'll honor Of
the enteprising proprietOrs of that magnificent i'm
provement but then flowers still bloom if Eden be nc
mOrc--hcars said to beat as warmly now as wher
the world younger and the hard times had not set in
above ALL people want something new the inanitie
of the stationer in the shape of Valentines no Longer
take-the observance is fading out. Let the first mar
red folks have their day. to be kept by those anxious t.
follow their example, and let flowers instead of tawr,
paper be the tokens sent and returned Upon the whole
would it not be better for the devoted swain to follow
the example of Adam and carry aye poses" in his owl
right hand? Then 'tother fellow couldn't derive tn
advantage of the doubt.