Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-02-28 | Page 3 | Pancakes Proper Fare for Today

PANCAKES PANCAS PROPER F fARE ARE fOR FOU OR TODAY Did you havo o pancakes or 01 hot hol cakes this lila morning Toda Today is Shrove Tuesday or 01 Pancake e Tuesday as It is familiarly called the theda da day before Ash Wednesday which t marks the tho beginning of or Lent 1 In ancient days duys Shrove e T Tuesday was wa the last day a before Lent on which preparation could be bo ma made e for tho penitential time o of Lent nt This preparation consisted mainly o of making conc confession n or being shriven en Th precept of shriving having ha been bElen fulfilled tIme the faithful on the eve e o of the beginning of ot Lent were cre indulged with permission slon to give themselves es up to amU amusements anti and The festive festl banquets o of carl early days das are now r represented b by the pancakes or fritters Critters and from this fact the popular expression Pancake Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day dRY i is II derived In the Roman Homan Catholic districts of southern Europe the da day Is known knon as asMa Ma Mardi Marcil nil Gras Oms Fat Fal Tuesday and in fn New Orleans La In this country time the lIa day marks the conclusion of oC the extravagant ant Mardi Gras festival lItI Toda Today Todar is a n legal holiday there and from 2 o 0 clock In the tue afternoon until lain at night practically practical the tha entire city Is ts en mai mastie and nd making merr merry Tomorrow Ash Wednesday 8 so 50 call called d from Crom the ancient custom of strewing ashes s on the h head u ad aM as a sign o of penitence I Is I the first day dav of Lent Jent The custom Is believed to have havo been Introduced b by Gregory Gregory Greg Greg- or ory the Great was WitS sanctioned b by Pope Popo Celestian III 1191 arid and afterwards generally generally gen gen- prevailed Before Defore mass ashes nere rr conf consecrated on the tho altar sprinkled d with hol holy water and signed d three times with th the cross while tho ho priest recited the Latin words meaning thou art dust and must re return return return re- re turn to dust duet Th rh Then n the ash luh ashes s lI wre were strewed on the h heads of or the thc officiating cI clergy r the priests and nd the assembled l d people ople The Tho ashes were wera salt said to be tho those o of th the palms consecrated con con- on nn the preceding Palm Sunda Sunday