Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1917 — Custom Had Good Results. [ARTICLE]

Custom Had Good Results.

England, Scotland, France and some parts of the Continent saw the start of the custom where parties of young folks assembled and inscribed on little billets the names of all the bachelors and maidens of their acquaintance, threw the whole into a receptacle, and drew them out lottery-wise, care being taken, of course, that each person drew the name of a member of the other sex. ' The person thus drawn became one’s valentine, and the allotment decreed by fate was supposed to Impose on the Couple a sort of loyalty for the coming year. The result can readily be imagined. The loyalty brought about by the valentine led to a close association, and more often than not resulted in marriage. Hence it was considered a -matter of prime Importance. to get the name of man or woman toward whom natural inclinations tended! - ..