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Show THE RUSSIAN EASTER. ' "I was In Greece last Easter," said the traveled New York girl. "They celebrate cel-ebrate Easter very differently there. It Is almost spectacular. "The strangest part of It all to me was the Russian service. A young man who had been very nice to me asked me to go with him to the Russian church at night. I noticed that when he asked me everybody around us laughed. "I said: 'No, I don't want to go. I have been going to the churches all day. The mass of candles, the long standing (nobody in Greece ever sits down In churches, because there are no seats, you know 'the smell of the Incense In-cense have tired me out. I don't want to go, I don't feel as If I could stand "He Insisted, so I went. He had been so very nice to me that I felt that I couldn't persist any more in refusing. "When we started off to the Russian church I noticed again that everybody laughed at us. This was why: "The Russian services are the strangest strang-est you ever saw. They sing and sing. Then some of the people rise and say: 'Christ Is risen.' Then the others answer: an-swer: 'Christ Is risen, indeed!' "Then they all turn around and kiss the one next to them. "The young man turned deliberately around and kissed me, of course. "And that was why they had laughed." New York Sun. |