Show THE SWITCH PARADE I 1 tho the origin of an ancient swiss celebration athis this is the story says Ilar harpers pers young yaws people told by an old swiss I 1 chronicle I 1 the magla magistrates of 0 tho the swiss town of brugg assembled in ID council and resolved to a 0 forest arost of oak trees on the he common then citizens sallied forth on a rainy day made holes in the ground with canes and sticks dropped an acorn in every hola and trampled the dirt down with their teat feet thus they sowed bowed upwards of twelve saks of 0 li acorns corns and when tho the work was done each catl en received a wheaten whealon roll as a treat the e pense being defrayed liy by the town treasury alas the acorns lay too deep in the ground which besides had bad been trodden down to firmly by so eo many feet tho the seeds never camo came up tho the thrifty townspeople then than raised a crop of ryo rye and oats on tho the common after tho the harvest they sloughed ploughed hed the soll boll and sowed bowed acorns in the furrows but luck even now turned against them only a few acorns came up ull while the gross gross grew all over the common tho the townspeople mado made hay in due dua season carefully sparing apai spai ina tho the infant oaks oaka when they mowed it was no uso use the tha rank woods noon killed thorn thom all after this second failure tho the mom bors of tho the council put their wise heads together and resolved to try a now way way for an oak grovo grove they were bound to havo have I 1 on tho twentieth day of october in tho the year of our lord 1532 the whole community ma marched relied out to the woods wooda men women and children dug up oak saplings s and transplanted them on tho the c common 1 mort the citizens worked with a will in tho the evening every boy and girl was given a wheaton roll to remember this arbor day while the men and women partook of a merry inerny supper in the town hall now how the oaks did grow says the chronicle tho the people were so pleased with this final su cess that they decided to institute the anniversary of this arbor day in 1532 as a holiday in their town tor for all times to come I 1 year after year young people marched in parado parade to the oak grove and returned homo home carrying oak twigs or switches asta as a proof that the trees arow a row apace and aid year after year a wheaten heaten sv roll was given by the town to every boy and girl to be oaten in remembrance of arbor day I 1 this ancient custom has beria kept up faithfully through the centuries and still exists the namo name of the switch pado pa an ado do i |