The picture was framed in aspidistras like a nightmarish valentine and across the lower margin was the top of a piano. If you scorn the maid at your window I will aerogram my immediate acceptance of a proposal of marriage that has been made to your poor Ada a month ago in Valentine State. Valentine and Morrel were exchanging their adieux in the presence of Noirtier when a ring was heard at the door-bell. This Custom (which sometimes introduces a Match) is grounded upon the Instinct of Animals, which about this Time of the Year, feeling a new Heat by the approach of the Sun, begin to couple. when young Men and Maidens get their several Names writ down upon Scrolls of Paper rolled up, and lay 'em asunder, the Men drawing the Maidens Names, and these the Mens upon which, the Men salute their chosen Valentines and present them with Gloves, &c. The custom of sending special cards or letters on this date flourished in England c.1840-1870, declined around the turn of the 20th century, and revived 1920s. To speak of the particular Customs of the English Britons, I shall begin with Valentine's Day, Feb. theory) or to any romantic or avian quality in either of the saints. No evidence connects it with the Roman Lupercalia (an 18c. Probably the date was the informal first day of spring in whatever French region invented the custom (many surviving medieval calendars reckon the start of spring on the 7th or 22nd of February). Whan euery bryd cometh there to chese his make. The romantic association of the day is said to be from it being around the time when birds choose their mates. For this was on seynt Volantynys day

Meaning 'letter or card sent to a sweetheart' first recorded 1824. as a custom in English and French court circles. Choosing a sweetheart on this day originated 14c. Valentine's Day,' from Late Latin Valentinus, the name of two early Italian saints (from Latin valentia 'strength, capacity ' see valence).

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