Show ORIGIN lN Of or THE THEOLD OLD SWASTIKA SW J Primitive Man Worshiped It and Now the Summer Girl Wears It as a Good GoodLucK GoodLucK GoodLuck LucK Piece The swastika Is Jut just now no having re remarkable rs- rs vogue oSue as an ornament for w mans man's dress dres s As Ae brooch b belt buckle stick sUck stickpin pin collar la fastener r or hat pin tn this up- up ht cross with 1 each of ot Its four tour arms bent to a right an angle ancle le at tho the end meets eV everywhere re the et eye ee Nearly eYer every ever woman oman who ho buys bus one kno knows know that It Is in seine pome sense a good bOW goodluck goodluck luck Juck pin but hut how ho It came camo to bo be con considered consul consid ered si-ed such uch and hero tho lie peculiar and curiously attractive symbol originated not so man many know What it Is the tho swastika It H Is J one o of the great Areat religious symbols of the world It IL has been recognised as HS a religious loUK emblem b by more mor people Yer very likely than titan has the cross It itself el As A. such symbol It Is he heery very vers many man hundreds o of years ears older old than the Christian era In tact fact It Is I. perhaps tho the YeT very earliest of or religious signs or characters It hall lias been revered rC all over o Europe and Asia Arla and Ion long before tho the thoda da dawn n of or Christianity our pagan a ancestors 1111 to 19 looked up to It as ns the thc emblem of what they worshiped It Is one ono of tho the oldest things In history and hear theer Is 18 scarcely a aland aland aland land In who e ruined temples It Is not toni found I Swa the lie name t given shen It b by the tho and Buddhists of India Is a word ord signifying or of good for for- or- or tuno tune In lii the tho Pall PL It Is which m means an It I Is well or 01 so be It which Is Iii much the lie saute same meaning as 38 tho time Hanse word Tho The Japanese call It man mall jl ii and the Chinese know It a an as ouan or orwan orwan orwan wan The French call can it le Ie croix pat- pat tee tec t the he footed ero cross while tho the ancient English name is 19 me meaning either tour footed or many man The Tue most puzzling Anti and most interesting interest interest- Ing In thing about the swastika Is that It is found round In nearl nearly all parts of or the world orld In this country as asell well ell as HR In Europe and andAsia andAsia Asia wherever where archaeologists dig rUg up lip the lie burled buried cities of or the tho remote past Drawn Drann painted cut woven scratched or otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise designed not only upon burial urn and stone oton but also upon utensils utensils sils ails and objects of or everyday use th the cu curious curious cu- cu rious symbol appears It It line has been heen found among relics that I murK mark the bronze ages In Ui r un und and seine omo antiquarians antiquarIan believe they have havn discovered the net o of Its existence In Sn the lie called so-called polished stone age o of man Prof Proto found It at In li-i the lie burled buried cities that underlay the nn- nn dent clent Tro Troy o of which Homer sang n which Indicates Its existence at a period from 1000 to years a agoB ago o. o D By B those who look Jook upon the r region on to the northwest o of India as ns tho the primal horn hom i o of the blonde races o of the Ito world that ancient land hand Is also looked upon as RI ii birthplace of or the swastika R R. 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P Greg an all eminent En lIl h authority argues that It Jl wits A n used much-used and favorite la rell ious bus sym symbol ol among the carll earlier 01 A Aryan 1 a 11 cs and nd was waR Intended b by them III In the first fint r represent In a cruciform form fonn an Ideograph or 01 symbol suggested b by the lie forked lightning Our primal white forbears orbe-ars worshiped Jupiter the th he ky k father and tho the Jar Jagged e U lightning was the tho natural emblem of ot this a awful rul power So with the successive emigrations of the lie Aryans j from northern India nil all over 01 Europe tho lie Swastika spread and adopted an as a a. symbol o of Buddha in the seventh tur tury before Christ It was later hater carried Into ito China and Japan Tho The Ara Arabs s And Jews JewE knew It not riot nor IUd did the ancient E Egyptians but they weme e not of Aryan r blood Thus ThUll tho the hammer of or Thor Titer the Scan Scan- deity for or whom n Thursday Thulla Is named was T this very vei s same nie me swastika which Urn the maiden of or toda today I Is using to lo ornament a summer shut shirt t waist It was with ith his mighty ht hammer that Thor Is fabled to have ha crushed the head of ot the lie destroyed de the lie giants giant restored to lo life lire the dC dead 1 goats which iliew his car and consecrated the thep p pyre re re of or Baldur tho beautiful And so IO It IL was vas the lie great rent religious emblem of nil J the Scandinavian lan peoples Lon Longfellow low re describing de do- o- o scribing in hl hIs hix verse how the lie lion lion-I no ly converted con coil King Olaf kept Yuletide at Dron Dron- thou thou-n says Ga Ocr Oer lila his drinking horn the 11 sign 1 Ho lie made of the lie cross crolls divine l Aa As he lie drank and muttered his But Hut tho the Berserks evermore bIl Made bIlo o the tho nl sign n of ot the hammer r of or Thor Over O theirs And when Ute the wave wn o of Christianity rolled over 01 western Europe J and tho lie hammer of or Thor and amid man many another pagan Idea Jelen became assimilated with tho thu new lIew rell religion lon and appeared In gentler guise The Tue swastika Is JK embroidered i in iii tho the miter of or Thomas a I and is often orten Introduced in iii religious decoration in the tho middle ages Bells Delis were often tt marked 11 with 1 the tho fyi tyl- fot or cross o of Thor l says 8 S. S Baring Baring- Gould especially where the lie Nurse Norse sot set tied A j most striking lIA Illustration o of tho ho adoration adoration ado ado- ration paid tho lie swastika Is to be spen tsen In the Boston museum of or fino arts This Is la a huge huse painting on silk used as It a temple tem tem- Cm- Cm pie decoration In Jn Japan ye rs It pictures the Buddha enthroned d. d sur stir stir- rounded by hy hosts o of adoring saints fwd end delling and above e him hint on either cither side Ide nn an an angelic form But between the these o and dl- dl r above his head In the tho center of ot otI I t f-t concentric ce r circles cushioned d on a cloud is a splendid swastika G Glittering er ni I iii j er ver white against ng the dull brown tones Lones of or the background round it seems the tho motif mour tJ of the lie whole hole picture and dominates tho the lI below as ml might ht tho iho cross cros of or Constantino when first It filled tho lie sight It Is one of or tile lie signs b by which is to be recognized when ho Ito comes upon earth and Sir Ir Edwin ir Arnold Ainold In The Tue JI Light ht of or Asia Ia m maken kel shu Allta the lie n aged cd saint who examined ito tho Buddha at his birth upon his bab baby ab foot tool sole the lie the curled soft d tendrils of the thc swastika And Antl so the tiny Ima images cI and auth the tho gigantic gigan gigan- antic an- an tic statues of or Buddha show In many a cn ease case e th the swastika upon his feet while in III others It appears in the lie center o of or his torch forehead cad Mr Ir Wilson ilson of or the National museum at Washington discovered cred it embroidered on the silk robes of Chung Chun of ot the thc Chinese e legation IJ at Washington toll and was told old that It was vu ao an ancient Chinese device o signifying many 1111 11 years ear or Ion long life and in general an em emblem l m of good fur for or- or tune tuno Major General Gordon found It Jt on tho tie breech ch chasing chasing- o of n a Chinese cann cannon captured captured cap cap- at the tho Taku forts fort Rev nev V 1 V. 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G Chalfant Chaifant missionary at I Shantung writes v. in Sel Science that lint It Jt j II is among thin tho mystic Chinese characters Is I called wan an and Is a n favorite with Ith the tho Chinese And Amid not only in tho orient but ut in tho the most remote corners of or Europe is the tue al 8 swastika tika to ho bo found It Is hi amon among arnone the rem remains o of the the the-eaily N lake Inke villages es o of the Swiss Th The Finns FinnA and awl the Laps Lapps know It It is on varly sarh arl Grecian potter pottery and aud vases Germanic museum show it a as 88 an art ornament on f eaily rh bronze s and the tho S Scandinavians stamped Il it deep In their weapons 1 of ot war ar It began before hl history tory The I puzzle o of the archaeologists how how- I ever is fa its appearance In this country many hundreds ds and amid perhaps thou thousands of It hRH haw been years year ago aKO discovered car carved card d on shells lI In prehistoric burial mounds in Tonn Tennessee tee silhouetted f d on 00 copper plates lit In Ohio tumuli carved cad on a L stone atone ate metAt from Nicaragua and at tho Ito present da day the Kansas Indians Indiana draw it on their song charts hart It Is woven wo In the thc bead necklace o of the Sac women t painted on the ground rattle of or th the Pueblos figures In lii the tho dry dry- sand fand painting of or the tho Navajo Nax ornaments th ito tho bead headwork beadwork work of the and dec dec- orates the war sheW of or this the PI Pimas man of Arizona But where h re did the ancient mound build huUd- I ers crl anc and th the tho modern modem Indians got get it it Did th they thie- think It up hs h's and It if certainly Is II a It J-ath J rather r complicated thing thine to think up or Is It Jt that list the primal inhabitants in In in- habitants o of th lie tho new world camo from rota the that old and brought ht wa swastika with 1 them But lint in the lie sculptured at Pal palenque palen Palen- Palen n- n que quo In Central America appear no not nol only the cross Croll but lUt nl o three other great re i-c- i U IOlI symbols the h t the lie yin In I yang rang and Ute time Egyptian crux crux anta I And whether this lila proves pro that the n estern continent was peopled t from the old orld orld or whether It Indicates Indicate that primitive e mans man ideas s were wet tho lie same ame everywhere e archaeologists are Arc not a agreed red But when the that twentieth c century girl sticks stick her s swastika In her shirt waist she should know that knees knee bent hent before it and ce eyes were ere uplifted to It In the da dawn n nor of or the world when 1 man nina nr first t sought to tomake tomake tomako make mako the sign I u of or that which he lie wor wor- shil pod S |