Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1919 — Long an Annual Festival. [ARTICLE]

Long an Annual Festival.

•The history of good St. Valentine is of• interest, and while Jn the year 1919 his devotees content themselves with sending postcard greetings or lacepaper concoctions decorated with scantily clothed cupids, armed with bows and arrows, for time immemorial the middle of February has been the date of a similar annual festival,, a fete connected with the feasts of Juno Februsrta and Pan, the Coming of spring, and the'time of the year in which the birds and men are supposed to choose-mates.