Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-13
ST. VALENTINES DAY.
rhe True Love Holiday with Its
nvosce of Loves and Doves.

The True Love 1hOlAu"J WIZ" A.
voice Of Loves asad Doves.
Tomorrow will be st. Valentines
dav. Uneasy will be many hearts In
consequence, the owners of which are
in -expectancy Of some declaration OF
nent.up affections. Some people are SO
modest that if they venture on the topic
alone they blunder most sadly, and to
these especially a valentine is a most
welcome boon for a declaration side
WAYS. Human nature would seem not
to have improved much by all the
modern improvements Of SO called civ
ilization, for maidens and men are pref
ty much the same now in regard to
heart disease as they were centuries
ago when the valentine business was
first introduced
The old Romans on st. Valentines
day had a custom of placing the names
of young ladies in a COX hung up at
the doors of the temples, from which
the names we're drawn rs chance di-
rected by the young lovers in waiting.
These chances were supposed to have a
huge significance. Later on, when Pa.
ganism had vanished, the
Chrixtian Priests and Bishops
Put a stop to all this, and the names of
holy Saints we're substituted in the
boxes for those of the beautiful girls.
This custom did not prove as accepts.
BILE as the older one, and by degrees
fell into disuse. The number OF ditties
imposed and sung in this favorite fes-
tiyal need not be guessed at, for love.
stricken fools always take to writing
d~oggerel, and up to the present time
poor human nature has not improved
In this respect. But how st. Valentine
ever came to be associated with lovers
and their foihles is enveloped in the pro-
foundest of mysteries. History fails to
connect him with any affairs of the
heart while he was In this life in the
flesh. Indeed, the poor Saint would
seem to have had something else to
think of. Ii we are to judge by the
close of the good mans life, the little
business of love-making can he looked
upon AS a practical joke upon his men,
Dry.
According to the Roman m~artyrol.
ogy, st. Valentine
Was Clubbed TO Death
BY the Romans and, after his death in
this way, his head was chopped off,
and his remains burned Gear the gate of
the Imperial City, now known as the
Porto del Popnlo. There is not much
santimentality In that, and there is not
the shadow of q mention Of any lady
having been in st. Valentines ease.
But the world has seen fit for many
years TO honor the Saint rs the patron
of all the young people who are in the
tolls of love and, perhaps. in accordance
with the old Roman belief that birds
mate somewhere about the middle of
February, the good Saint is supposed
to give a propitIuus smile on the silent
enieavors al the solitary sufferer,
vino are pining 10 entwine themselves
in the chains Of blissful monotony and
unendiny felicity.
OF late wears the custom Is not kept
up go extensively AS it used to be. This
may be accounted to the materiatism
Of the times and the strong aversion
to sentimentalism of the average
American youth and their penchant
for boarding houses and the club.
But there are many who keep up the
old style and give and receive valen.
tines with a relish and piquancy that
neither N nor frost could einove.
To these st. Valentines day Is a great
event. They look forward 10 it with
ideas broad and soaring. and TO night
will go to sleep with their imagina-
tons excited to the highest pitch in
,ts,;<asi, nf gt,a tpnrrau
Tomorrow little heads will be peer
ing in ut the delivery window Of our
PostOf1ice. with
ThrObbing Veins "a Flushed
Checks.
In expectancy. Ridiculous verses will
be conned over with beating hearts,
and the wrong fellow may be thought
the sender while the real one is not
the sort of "A man who would hide his
head under a bushel. Sentimental
valentines are not the rage now The
comic ones have taken the market by
storm, and the greatest care Is taken to
secure the most ridiculous and non
seusical to be found. The little misses
are already laying in a stock of valen-
tines. Troops of the Young girls sur
round the counters and with great flu
ency OF speech descant upon the pref
tiness of the little cupids and the hearts
with darts in them and a bunch Of
roses surrounding words of love and
fidelity, and all that sort of nonsense.
They seemed quite serious as to the
proper thing for Gussie, or Willie, or
dear Jimmy, or darling Frank, bat all
are apparently satisfied, and the young
hearts will tomorrow fiutter ''hipper
de dab" in the sending and receiving
of the tender missives.
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