Valentine's day

On Valentine’s Day’.
To tea without lights on Saint
Valentine’s Day’.
A.G.Barham
When all the fun of Christmas and New Year is over, there’s a feeling of anti-climax. The rest of January is dreary and cold. But before long the empty shops seem to come to life once again with displays of attractive and brightly coloured ‘I love you’ Valentine cards.
St. Valentine was a priest who lived in Rome and died for his faith in A.D. 170. His feast happens to fall on February 14 th - the traditional day for lovers. But this is mere coincidence. He was not therefore the true patron saint of lovers.
There was in early times a strong belief that on this day birds choose their mates. To some extent this might explain why love - birds seem to be such popular motifs on Valentine cards. A fourteenth century poet wrote: ‘On Valentine’s Day all the birds of the air in couples do join’. And Shakespeare carried on the tradition when Theseus says in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’:
St. Valentine is past:
Begin these wood-birds
but to couple now?’’
But antiquarians maintain that St. Valentine’s Day celebrations are a continuation of a Roman festival of Pan and Juno.
There used to be a custom in England on St. Valentine’s Day, mentioned by Chaucer, Shakespeare and Pepys: the names of young, unmarried men and girls were mixed up and drawn out by chance. The person of the opposite sex whose name came out after yours was your chosen ‘Valentine’ for the year.
Just over a century ago it became fashionable to send pretty lace-edged cards. Earlier, ludicrous and sometimes...

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