MONDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Mrs. A. H. Lloyd of Port Townsend, Wash., announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Mary Van Houten, to Mr. Merrill Conitz, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Conitz of New Salem, N.D.
Van Houten-Conitz Engagement Told
The announcement was made at Miller hall by Mrs. R. G. Roche, housemother. Chocolates were passed by Misses Joyce Bower and Peggy Scott.
Miss Van Houten is an education senior. Mr. Conitz is a civil engineering junior at North Dakota State college, Fargo, N.D.
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Hutchason-Turney Pinning Announced
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity announces the pinning of Miss Barbara Hutchson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hutchson of Kansas City, Mo., to Mr. James K. Turney of St. Joseph, Mo.
Miss Hutchason, a graduate of Southwest high school, is living with her parents. Mr. Turney is a College senior.
The announcement was made Feb. Cigars were passed by Mr. Dan Hesse, College sophomore.
Shrine Game Date Set
San Francisco—(U.P.)-The 27th annual shrine East-West football game will be played on Saturday, Dec. 29, 1951.
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Farrell-.Collins Engagement Told
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Farrell of Wellsville announce the engagement of their daughter, Galyna, to Mr. Gerald Collins, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Collins, also of Wellsville.
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The announcement was made at Miller hall by Mrs. R. G. Roche, housemother. Chocolates were passed by Misses Mary Hansen and Joyce Shank.
Miss Farrell is a College freshman. Mr. Collins is a graduate of Wellsville high school.
KuKu's Elect Officers; Nash Chosen President
Robert Nash, College senior, was elected president of KuKu club Feb. 8 in Green hall.
Other new officers were Wayne Bradley, College junior, vice-president; Darrel Oanfield, business senior; secretary; George Tappan, College senior, treasurer.
Vetter-Randall Engagement Told
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund W. Vetter, Newton, announce the engagement of their daughter, Patricia Ann, to Mr. Paul Edward Randall, son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Randall of Halstead. The wedding will take place March 28.
Miss Vetter is an education senior and Mr.Randall is an engineering junior.
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Washington (U.P.)—There are many versions of how we started to observe Feb. 14 as "Valentine's Day." But they all filter down to the business of cupid.
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Dan Cupid Receives Blame For Valentine's Day
"When every byrd comyth there to chose his mate."
George Stimpson, a scholar, spent 23 years trying to find out how the business of sending love notes on Feb. 14 started.
Mr. Stimpson had to admit that nobody, including himself, knows the answer exactly. Doubtless, the whole thing was accidental, he said
He went way back into history and found a number of St. Valentines. Any of them might have been responsible for the commercial deal we now have in which greeting cards were made, decked cards dotted up with verses starting "I love you," or "Roses are red, vignets are blue," and so forth.
It seems that on Feb. 14, the eve of the purification festival in honor of June, young Romans were paired off in lots. The names of the girls were placed in a fish bowl and were drawn by the men, who gave gifts to their ladies.
A similar custom of pairing the young of opposite sex by lot went on in England in the middle ages. The custom was for the girl and boy to accept each other as "Valentines for the rest of the year."
Valentines can be expensive, and even were in the olden times.
Samuel Pepys, the diarist, wrote in 1668 about the question of giving gifts on Valentine's day:
And this year I find it is likely to cost four or five pounds to give her (his wife) a ring, which she desires."
In 1754, a society dame described in a London paper how she observed Valentine's day:
"The night before I got five bay leaves and pinned one to each corner of my pillow and the fifth in the middle, and then if I dreamed of my sweetheart we would be married before the year was out," she wrote. "But to make sure, I boiled an egg hard and took out the yolk and filled it with salt, and when I went to bed
I ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it."
We never learned what the woman dreamed about, how the hard egg tasted—shell and all—or anything else. We are left to suspect she may have died an old maid.
Anyhow, Shakespeare alludes to the day of hearts in "A Midsummer Night's dream." In that play the Duke of Athens, seeing Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena asleep in the wood in May says:
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"Saint Valentine is past; begin these wood-birds but to couple now!"
Right there, you might find the accident of what we now observe as St. Valentine's day.
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