Show THE UTAH GARLAND GARLAND TIMES THE LAXATIVE Hie Come-bac- k of the ime Fiddler r“' An A night tha drift cover hemlock Idea a priest hath flood hundred years with arm stretched over wilderness dreary where When you get up headachy slughere’s how to gish weak feel yourself again In a Jiffy Take a little Phillips’ Milk of Magor lemwater— nesia in a glass of Phillips’ onade Taken In lemonade Milk of Magnesia acta like citrate of Aq a mild Bnfe pleasant magnesia Milk of Magnesia laxative Phillips has the highest medical endorsement to correct sour As an atomach gas Indigestion biliousness It has been standard with doctors for and years Quick relief In digestive troubles of men women eliminative children — and babies blessing naked boughs loud complaint when itormy wind ewe blowing The streams are silent heeding not 'Their novel To gentle maiden fern betide them growing The ferns are dead and hid away In icy oepulchers that hush their grieving When death binds all what heart 'T hath faith to pray? What soul th courage to go on believing? Hake v - ENDORSEMENT Northern day and A ft k within e '$( wood Long ' r 4 () ’B i mC v r ' ‘'L J’' - Modern Advantage “Seems to me you and your wife have more scraps than you used to — have” “Yes you see we can quarrel now and the folks In the other apartments will think they’re just hearing a ' r't Daun streak era in the East! growing light! And darkness folds his'mantle with the warning The Eastern sun shines out serene and bright— World it is the Resurrection Ulorning! ound beneath the hemlock tree ere inows lie deep and fr brook so still is ! O' brook fairly skipping in t&MnomJS 2&: 2 !l 'fft £ w ties: “Ladles to the right and awing Balance to the next Gents to the right and swing Balance to the next Allemand left All promenade" In “Captain Jinks” a favorite dance the figures are performed to these quatrains with enthusiasm the “flying lady” Is frequently lifted bodily from the floor and swung In the air with right good will "First lady swing with Captain Jinks with the one that never drinks Now Now with the one that carries the chinks And now with the dude of the ballroom First gentleman dance with Lady so fair Now with the one wltb hair Now with air the one that turls In her Elsa In the new with belle of the ballroom" A typical dance for four couples Is In these lines: expressed “First two give right hands across Back with the left Fall back between aid couples And forward tlx And ing festival And back with the left Join your partner And balance four In a line Swing to places all" And promenade This Is an aspect of life In the the summer boarder does Cutskllls Our author says that In not know the villages the square dances are falling off somewhat In popularity but on the farms they are as greatly enjoyed as they were a generation Jazz leaves the guests apaago thetic It wus only a yeur or so ago that the the fact Kansas City Star chronicled fiddlers five from that "ten north Missouri and an equal number of the section from the southern state will saw It out December 30 at ?lty for the state championJefferson a large will receive winner The ship The contest Is expected loving cup ta take all night" And the Rolla that "the (Mo) Herald reported Ozarks have radio and free rural mall and they have automobile delivery roads but refuse to abandon the old square dance where the fiddler plays the 'Arkansas Traveller' and 'Turkey In the Straw’ and at the same time calls the dance figures In verse A year or so ago a South Dakota editor upon the revival commenting dances in thst state of the was moved to the following reminiscence of an earlier day: In the spring of 1379 I witnessed my first frontier dance A new store building wss to be dedicated with a dance There was room for three “sets" of four couplet each to dance at once and the musician and caller was Dume Evans Just what Dume was a contraction of I never knew HI4 music didn’t appeal even to my ear but his unique and unpraetlced poetic Impro vision as lie “called” to his 'own fiddling Impressed me more than the movement of the dancers When the sets were full Dume’s fiddle and also his voice came Into action He alwaya sang In a droning monotone keeping time ulsowlth his foot The opening was always the same "S'lute yer pnrtners “Jlne hands and circle to th’ left “Right hand to ver partner an' grab right and left" By this time his eyes were closed and his voice had risen to a sort of ryth matte wall: "First couple lead tc the couple on the right In the center an’ three "Lady mind yer feet fellers hands 'round don’t tromf) on her gown "First Indy swing out and second lady In three Jlne hands and circle agin “On to the next couple hoe It down three Jlne hands and enper 'round “Third lady to the renter give your honey a whirl lead to the next with your best girl "Grab your honles don’t let ’em fall shake your hoofs and balance all eoons In the trees at "Ringtail grab your partners and run play away" - Or there might the grand something like this be after : a variation "Buffalo gals are a coinin’ out tonight first couple lead to the couple on the right Jaybird scoldin’ up In a tree gents stand around and ladles if you catch a yeller Jacket let ’er go ladles stand back and On to the neit and gents make them cow do It some more bides hit the floor "Back to your places grab them heifers and all eliaw hay" Or It might be In a sort of reminiscent and sentimental vein that he would call: "First gent lead to Indy on yer right and watch yer step now mind yer: hack to yer place and swing thet gal the gal yer left behind f yer" endurance apparI Mime's physical ently was as Inexhaustible as his Hour after power of Improvlslon would screech old fiddle the hour and hour after hour the voice of the fiddler would drone on while his foot Of kept time without Intermission course there were occasional periods of Irrigation though Dume never seemed to be effected by his potions and when at last the dance broke up It was near the hour of blushhg morn Similarly a writer In the Louisville told of (ICy) fiddlers In that dances and state as follows: Some of the Kentucky fiddlers had more of a variety of tuneful breakdown melodies In their repertoire than others but there was In which fewer one accomplishment excelled That was the calling of the dance figure which some of them could do In an original and novel way The figures of the square" dances were called off In the quaint vernacular couched In lowe rhyme and the variations that took a wide much merriment range occasioned Following Is a sample of one of the characteristics dance calls of the period “S'lute yer pardner and let her go Balance all and Swing yer gal and rnn away Bight and left and gents sashay Gents to right and swing or cheat On to next gal and repeat Balance neit and don’t be shy Swing yer pard and swing her high Bunch the gats and circle round Whack yer feet until they bound Form a basket and break away Swing around and all get gay All gents left and balance all Lift you hoofs and let 'em fall Swing yer opposite swing again Ketch the sagehens If you kin Buck to pardner All Jlne hands and off you go Got salute yer little sweets Hitch and promenade to seats" The square dance or quadrille Included other figures one of them being called Others were mule up and such ns "Swing Yer Interpolate which Long had its origin In Arkansas 1’sually the Hapce “caller" of other days had a foghorn voice and he contributed much to the "shindigs" of the period that often lasted until dm light before the final strains of "Home Sweet Home' hmke tip die party All of which offers rather conclusive evidence that it's not yet time to write “finis" to the old time fiddler and his dance tunes He will hold sway at the Virginia music festival at Charlottesville this month accordto the Information ing accompany jhe picture shown above and Judging by reports of fiddlers’ contests In other parts of the country which have appeared In the newspapers recently It seems likely that he will pursue hi calling" for some time yet to corner hs WMra Nunp Roman Churches Commemorate Death of Christ Before altars stripped of their ornaments ami surmounted by veiled crucifixes with the tabernacles In the center standing open and empty priests solemnly prostratithe ng themselves commemorate death of Christ In all the churches of Rome and throughout the Catholic world A procession of penitent composed of clergy and laymen of thousands wends Its way to Santa Croce In a comparatively where large piece of what is said to be the cross of Calvary has been kept for centuries to Between the hours corresponding to the time that Christ Is supposed his agony all business buve sufferer! Is at a standstill and traffic largely suspended Holy Staircase Goal In the city otllome the scala santa enshrined In the or holy staircmdi church Just across the way from SL John La ter an la the goal of thousands both Italian and foreign of penitents The tradition ta that the staircase Is in thi the same that Christ ascended praetorlum of I’ontlus I’llate In Jerusu iem on his way to apear before tin The steps all Roman governor marble are assumed to have beer brought to Rome by SL Helena mith er of Constantine the Bret Christian emperor All day the pilgrims ascend those stairs on their knees praying at euoh pause When they reach the top thp a latthf re permitted a view through of the chapel known as the snnctn or holy gf holies an early sanctorum Christ some and of preclou" picture relics every one of Rome’s 400 churchei-thFriday muss of the pre In each the Is eelehraled Host consecrated the day before on Holy Thursday Is reverently home from the altar of revise to the main altar the choir chanting the “Vexlla hymn Regis" hj Its English title Venantlus Fortunaius is "The Uanners of the Cross Advance" Veneration of Cross Thereafter comes the ceremony of The the veneration of the cross veiled crucifix Is taken down from above earn altar and gradually uncovered the clergy chanting the “Here Lignum Cruris" whose first line translated Is “Heboid the wood of the cross on which hung the salvation of the world” The prlpst then remove their kneel and shoes in sign of reverence he crucifix bow three times md kiss placed wi the ahar steps Thereupon the laity are permitted to approach and perform the same act of homage In the evening the devotion to "Marls Desolata” (Mary Desolate) takes In Good sanctified I E 'ASTER of ' south and is 1 universal pageant the equator as well aa the southern is a time of falling Easter of harvested crop and of leaves approaching winter To those who live on the nether side of the world there ia no material manifestation To them of rebirth at Eastertime it is a time of spiritual renewal a resurrection of faith sufficient that It overcomes the frown of approaching winter skies and exalts to certainty th hope that even winter ends and spring must follow in the unending march of the seasons in Las Animas Colo— "The last few years I have in been nervous health and tired all the v5" bS lime Dr Pierce’s b K 1 Golden Medical was Discovery to recommended me I have taken five bottles now recomfine cannot I feel I and will say mend Dr Pierce’s medicine too highly’’ — A C Conover Route 2 Box Colorado 58 Las Animas All druggists Fluid or tablets symptom Kvrry package contain to Dr hlanlc Pill It ont nnd mnll riorce' Clinic Huffalo N Y for freo medical ad vice Send 10c If yo want a fierce' of any of Dr trial parkas medicines $£’ f y FEAST OF NATIVITY n EFORE the advent of Christian-itspring was always celebrated by the pagan peoples and it waa only’ natural that the early Christians should make Easter one glorious feast day for Easter waa tha same th word aa Ishtar great spring goddess of ancient Babylon ind the same word aa "East” — the place of the aun rising — it outranked the early fathers even Christmas holding the day of the Nativity to be only a preparation for Easter Some authorities tell u that it was only as early at A D 354 that tha feast of the Nativity waa celebrated of December on the while Easter in iti origin goes back to the Sunday itself Among th early Christians every Sunday was a joyful celebration of the resurrection of Jesus On thia joyful seventh day fasting was not in order and the faithful might say their prayers standing instead of on their knees Even Death “Well old Bill Empty head has played his Inst practical Joke” I hudn’t henrd” “So? he died bequeathing his “Yes brains to science” — Pathfinder Magazine Bothered with Backache ? 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AND TIRED Here is Relief grave is white wit lilies ! Detroit Richmond Vs— For tha first tlms In Virginia’s history the old lyrics of a forgotten day that cams to America are to be with the first colonists when the picturheard again esque valleys and hollows of the Blue Ridge mountains surrender their mountain bards April 14 to 17 of this year for the first Virginia music festival to Above is be held at Charlottesville shown a group of the old fiddlers getting in a bit of practice for the com- drama” NERVOUS i The erstwhile By ELMO BCOTT WATSON BIIOltT time ago a Montreal newapaper printed an article under the title of "Our Canadian In which Kathleen Itedman Strange the author said: "If you ever have watched a group of country people engaged in a ‘square dance you will readily understand why I refagret the pasalng of these vorites from the floors of our present-dacountry dance halls A recently as ten years ago these square or group dances were an tegral part of our western country life Today the modern tendency for Jazz Is crowding out the fiddler and the The dances fiddler mount pliyr the new dance music though he can p!ay( the old Irresistibly The consequence Is that not only the fiddlers the 'callers' and the old rhymes themselves but also the people who know how to dance the figures are disappenrlng" If this Canadian woman hnd crossed the boundary line Into this country and visited various places In a number of different states she might have discovered that mourning ever the “pasafiddler” Is still a lng of the hit premature If for Instance she had gone Into the Catskills In New Tork she might have made an Interestas witness the ing discovery following from the New York Sun: the Catskills Having explored Mary Kllzabeth Osborn has recorded In American Speech some of the results of her observations on the square dance The neighbors gather In the "front parlor" the barn or corrupting touch for the true antiquarian h the garage The fiddler calls the figures he Is dictator of the dance he “haa been known to stop fiddling and scold the dancers If the figure la not being performed quite swiftly enough or evenly enough to meet his approval" Whatever the dance may be says this historian there are Introductory and closing steps that are alThe opening figure ways the same Is ordered thus: “Head couples Right and left Half promenade Ladles change Balance four Allemand left All promenade" The closing figure Is directed In this fashion by the master of festivi- HIGHEST WITH bank laxative chew Intestinal systems lower rethem with to colds Cleans the modera chewing gunt Geatle safe More effective because you it Feeibamint INIttT ON tMt CNUMS Teetfatainf The Chemne Gum LAXATIVE Fer Adults taul ChiUlrtu No Taste Bat the Mint FOR CONSTIPATION U j ' h |