Show r GIVE INFANT T A SEASONING Newly Born Greek Baby flaby Invariably Sprinkled With Salt and Pepper r rby by Its Father What Whitt would you think If you were a Greek baby boy horn born In one of ot th the th small villages or on a farm and nn tb the first thing timing your daddy did to you wa wu to spi sprinkle Inkle you with salt and pepper I questions Temple Manning In the Cleveland Plain Dealer Defiler You wouldn't like it would you And yet this II li exactly what Is lone dono to the boy perhaps with the Idea of giving him a foretaste of the hard lift Ifs of ot that rocky section When the time hob baby Is born with hair c chis OB OD his head the time priest who priest who Is always present at such events event In the bom homes of the faIthful cuts cuts off orr n a few hairs balm He Joins these hairs with the wax from an altar taper then he throws throw them the time water In which the child chilli I 18 to tn be baptized After Ater the bab baby's baptism the priest puts an RD amulet t around his neck to guard him throughout through out life Ilfe und anti the child may be said to tobe he be launched d on his career No Nt To less adt are the customs In other other other oth oth- er er sections of or Greece For instance In Athens no matter how lich the family fOrD fam ily may bo so he-so so long as ns they cling to t the old customs the customs the first clothing th the baby haby wears wears Is made from an old shirt his father wore Interesting as are the time baptismal customs cus cue toms of Greece Greece and and beautifully symbolic sym ym belle bolic as they arc they are they are somewhat like our own baptismal rites But what is very different IB Is that from Us its baptism the time baby has baa a name Until Until Until Un Un- til his or her the child has been called This means ans Iron and the baby Is BO so culled called because because because be be- cause his parents hope that he lie or abe ato will be ns na strong as Iron From now until he Is 18 three years yeen old th the boy child when child when not called by his own name name name-Is Is referred to a aa baby He must be twelve years old before he lie Is la called caned youth and attain at at- thin tain time the age of ot eighteen before anyone anyone any any- one thinks of ot speaking of him aa as young man But the proudest moment moment mo mo- ment merit of nil all comes with his twenty twenty- second birthday On that day he la Is lafirst first spoken of as grown full man And the chances are he by now realizes re r re- re why his lila f father ther sprinkled him with salt and pepper the day dar lit he a. a was wax born |