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VALENTINE DAY
[Welland Telegraph February 13, 1903]
A festival celebrated on Feb. 14Th, and established in England, Scotland and France, about the 15th century, was very popular among the upper classes and at many European courts. On St Valentine’s eve many spinsters and bachelors were accustomed to meet in a social way, write upon bits of paper the names of a number of spinsters and bachelors of their acquaintance, throw them into a basket, and then draw them out, one at a time, care being exercised that each should draw one of the opposite sex, the person thus drawn being the “drawer’s” valentine, The festival was introduced into America at an early day, but its observance has since undergone material change, and is annually becoming less and less general, at present being limited to friends exchanging anonymous communications with each other, the same being made in verse or verses, referring to a variety of topics, the subject being also illustrated by cuts of an amusing or sentimental character.
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