Show NATAL O DAY Y T J OF ST PAJRICK t Today Be Observed by Sons of i i Erin the Wide World Over f BT NT IN tN ZION 5 TOTS ON E Et t tr Ar sAL T LAKE THEATRE iL h Paddy dear and aid you hear j th news goin around hanging men and women there For r the w of the green of Irishmen all over the world vIII keep step with foot and beat iii with heart to the Of f the Green today Everywhere the sham shamro shamrock ro rock k and harp will hold place and prom prominence thence In dUes cities parades will march through the main streets Elo Eloquent quent orators will make glad millions of responsive Irish hearts by painting glowing word pictures of Erin her fu future ture thre her beauty and her people Appropriate entertainments will vill be given in the evening Special services will be held In Catholic churches These wUI vIll comprise the religious phases of the lay day celebration The annual celebration celebration tion held in commemoration of the birth of 01 St Patrick the patron saint of Ire 4 land Jand is the dearest day Iu In all the year 3 t to Erins children Celebration in Salt Lake f The in Salt Lake will be similar to those held Services ices ic s will be held In the local churches arid Jid an elaborate entertainment will be given in the Salt Lake theatre this evening This will be a climax to the days events For several weeks past children members of th the choir of St Marys ca cathedral cathedral thedral and children from the Kearns St Anns orphanage have been drilling and training and rehearsing studiously to make this years entertainment the most interesting and pleasing ever pre presented seated before a Salt Lake audience Shamrock drills wilt vill be executed execute by clever little tots in dainty costumes of green and other appropriate colors Shamrock songs solos and choruses vIll be sung by bab baby actors and ac act t Tableaux will be pr presented n ed by pretty youngsters When the final cur tam shuts the group of tots from sight Sl S1 Patricks day will have been oh ob observed served thoroughly in Salt Lake Reminders of Day Numerous Newsboys have bave had their stands on streets corners offering clever linita U tl ns of the delicate lover clover for sale The green emblem tYpical of holiness an l are today worn on coat lapels by everyone every one Some of the em emblems blenis are unique creations wherein the shamrock and golden harp in hou combinations The store windows are dressed in style Green i is the are the original shapes in which it Is offered 4 The confectioners pots have hav been boiling bolling and bubbling busily for several days ys Toothsome delic delicacies cies of varied green appear In the C l hop wi win windows dows QS Green snakes with peppermint drop eye are seen hi n plenty crawling among nong cand candy ribbon The novelty stores store offer distinctly new gifts apropos of the theda da day Burnt leather green in color and Inscribed with Irish rhymes are offered in postal cord card and hanging shapes hapes A leather hanging hanting with picture an Indian and Irishman with his dudine proposes this toast The Indian with his pipe of peace In years will pass away But the Irishman with his hill piece of DIDe Is a come to stay stav Plug hats with miniature clay I pipes attached by green cords are also I shown Many of the leather tal cards with verses have been sold to persons wh mailed them Ulem to friends in other countries One whIch was as In great demand bore the follow following following ing jingle St Patricks day in the morn mornin in tn In the city by the lake Where the Irish are all happy And Aud theres nary uary a snake The annual celebration of the birth birthday birthday day of St Patrick March 17 is the national day of the Irish people He Heis Heis is the patron saint of Ireland and his name is reverenced by members of the therace therace race in all parts of the world In all l long list of saints ed by bythe bythe the Irish people there Is whose name is half so 80 dear as that of St StPatrick Patrick Ptrick I Saint Was a The e early life lite of St Patrick is misty H History to has ha only the important events of his life Tradition has cast a veil vell veller over er his earlier years The date and ce of his birth are uncertainties Some historians maintain that ho he was as born A D Others are as asp p that he be was as born A D HIS Hla is e as uncertain Religious writers Titers differ widely videly on this subject some affirming that he was born in North Britain Others assert his bIrthplace was Brittany France while others Insist that he was born at Kilpatrick near Dunbarton In Scot Scotland land This last place is most favored He was a His mother gave him close relationship to St Martin bishop of Tours whose J ciple he afterward became His father was a Roman of officer fleer of fame Both parents were ar arden den t Christians and the boys early life contained much religious training attaches a miracle to the bOYS baptism This ceremony was in the open air by an au aged and aDd blind priest The priest groped for vater to baptize the child but could find none Taking the infants hand within his own the priest made the sin sign of the cross on the ground In Instantly a spring of bubbling clear ira 8 t r burst from thE spot The Infant was bathed in this When Then the water touched the sightless eyes of the priest his eyesight was as restored Performed Many Miracles Another interesting feature of the hap ceremony is that the child chUd was a christened He was ro years old when the name of Patricius or Pat Patrick Patrick rick was given ven him by Pope Celestine at the same ame time that he receIved his commIssion to carry the Gospel into Ire Ireland Ireland land From a traditional view the childs life was one of miracles When but a aboy aboy boy lIe be performed wonderful feats fre frequently With the ign of the cross lie he healed his sister aJ changed water Into horey With prayers he stayed devas devastating tating floods stricken cattle and brought forth curds and butter from drifts of snow when his mother was as Ill Illand and the family in the throes of per pov crt erty When rhen the unholy touched th the edibles they changed Into snow again History tells that his life liCe from rein babyhood OO up was 3 one of sanctity When 16 years old lIe was surprised by a band of sea roy rov ers from Ireland and taken captive He was sold to Milcho a chieftain of the north He was made swine herder and forced to watch over unruly droves In the cold and barren hills and track trackless trackless less forests of Antrim He was exposed to the Intense heat hent of the thc passing sum summers summers mers and the cold of the winters for six years At the end of this number of years ears he dreamed that he was visited by some one who said Behold a ship is ready for you youlie lie He set oUt for fora a distant part of Ire Ireland Ireland land After traveling on foot for a dis distance tanco tance of about mIles he reached the coast COlst His m was fulfilled for he saw a 2 snip ship ready to sail sall Securing paz pas sage on this h he traveled for three days and landed In a familiar land A second dream told him that the voice of the Irish people ws wc c crying out to hIm Ve entreat thee holy youth to come and walk amongst us usA usA A disciple had visited Ire Ireland Ireland land previously and made fruitless ef efforts forts to convert its people to the Oath Cath Catholic olic religion b by his dream the bo boy traveled through Gaul and Italy to acquire a store of sacred learning He rapidly under the tutorship of hi his uncle St Martin In A D lie he was promoted to the holy orders At this time he also re his commission to carry the gos gospel os pl pel Into Ireland He landed at Wicklow with twenty laborers and at first could get no audiences He went north and called cl at the house of his old nuis mas master ter The chieftain had heard of the saints coming and died b by his own hand band rather than accept the faith The mails maes children were converted Takes Faith to Ireland The prInces and priests of Ireland gathered frequently on the Hill of Lara Lam During these meetings and conferences a fire was kept burning St Patrick lighted a fire on an opposite hill bill the Hill of Slane upon Holy Hoh Saturday This he caned called an Easter fire The DruIds were angered at thIs history credits one of the leaders with the utterance Tf that fire is not put out before morning it will never be put out thus prophesy prophesying ing that the religion St Patrick was Wa in introducing Introducing Into the Island was as to grow and gain strength as the centuries rolled by unless his influence was as checked irs Im Immediately mediately How wen well that prophecy has been fulfilled can be seen when it Is known that on he day set aside for the commemoration of the birthday of this patron saint millions of persons otter offer un prayers In thousands of churches an all allover anover over the world St Patrick p up upon upon on the prices to let his fire burn rn on the Hill HilI of Shane Slane The sparks of faith that he was kIndling kindlin ln In the island soon leaped heaped Into flames fJames until the tho whole country was 0 wrapped In In a hOly fire St Patrick la ha lab b red in the island years and wh when n he ceased hIs teachingS there were few left heft in the country who had not adopted ChristIanIty through his unc unceasing t ting ing efforts Adoption of Shamrock St Patricks guide and tea her after the he death of St Martin was St Ger Bishop of When St StPatrick StPatrick Patrick left heft he went to the f a amous monastery at Lernes the pres present f ent nt town of Canes on the Mediterranean sea arly a before this a solitary by name landed handed on th thie shore and found the district dis district swarming with reptiles prayer work the hermit dro drove the reptiles s from the laud land into the sea St Patrick was likened to the hermit when lie he arrived en cn the shores of Ire Ireland Ireland land because h was 3 to drive fh the p ison ous reptiles of infidelity and barbarism from the island His labors Jabors In the Island were at first in vain as th say sav savages ages would not listen to his preaching But without on drop of blood being shed th the fight was isas eventually won and Christianity swept over the country hIka a loosened tori m The ThC shamrock bf be became came an emblem of Erin through h a little incident which happened while St Patrick was wa at Tara Thra After delivering a sermon on the Blessed it Ity he plucked a three leaved clover clever rind used It in illustratIon of his subject The greenness of the clover clver typIfied tha fresh Cresh freshness ness of the faith fait in the |