| Show no i EASTER IN MANY PLACES l I I In other days daYI curious customs wore were connected with th the of Easter Baller In all the fires were put out and on Easter Cuter from eon consecrated obtained from the churchill churches bol holy fire Are lilt gut In this way AY being b believed to be potent against the ray ages of and other disasters Also A tall fall It l late or early l healer lter was the signal for tor doln doing the tyre out of 01 the hell hall and the blaCK wynter brander and all that 1 is foule with fume tume and smoke shall MII be done Ilont and where the tyre was WOl shall hall be ral gayly with fayre fayr and strewed with grin all 11 about The common people as 61 the lice tIll still do doIn doin In Ireland tune early tl on sister Euter morn mornIng Ing Ina to see ICe the sun lun dan dance LIfting or heaving was 01 as an ob which is 18 thought to hove have been beena a rude representation ot of the Uon tion Th The men lifted the women on onI I luster lter Monday the women the men on the following day this being pushed b by two to persons joining hands handl across others wrists the person to tobo tobe bo be heaved haved sitting thereon and being lilted lifted th three time after which he WAS kissed by the litters and a 11 forfeit claimed Sometimes a chair was used Instead of the hands hand handA A superstition that affects the mod modern modern ern of Easter apparently held that It wa was unlucky not to wear ne new on that To look lookout lookout out of your our window on Easter ERter morn morning ing and H see a lamb iamb was os thought to be I lucky especially It If It had Ito head to toward i iward ward yon this probablY being d derived I In part at least from the belief bell thatto that to ace Ille a lamb Iamb Is II always more morl or lees Iu lucky since that la I a form torm that the devil can never assume Mary MallY persons believe that tha t It la b a rood plan to draw water Vater and wash In It on master Day if IC the wind Is seat as al that will ill effects from cut enst winds for tor the rest relt of the year If H It rains on Easter It will rain for tor seven lIeven Sundays I c n a wIdely accepted proverb Some go further and say It It rains on Easter Ealter It will nUl rain at least a afew few tew drops every day In the year In man parts arte of a Pashas monarch was chosen to ride In pomp to church and after service to repair with his ret retinue nue to a hall where B a celebration than tion was held heldA A rood good old university custom at Ox Oxford ford tord was chippIng the block The cook and hi his assistants waited for tor the students to come out for tor dinner As 8 each earh passed ed he took n a blunt choppIng ax and struck the block following the act by dropping a tee In II a pewter dish held by on one of the assistants There was wal a tradition that anyone any one able to chop the block In two would have n a aright right to lay claim to the college es ea estate tats tate Easter Baster Sunday In Rome le Is ushered In with the firing of cannon from the cas castie castie tie of St Bt Angelo Anelo Soon Boon afterward there therele le II n a greet great outpouring of pedestrians and equipages In the direction or of St Peters where the altars are d decorated rated beautifully and the ablaze around St Peters tomb FormerlY the pope In the splendid vestments of his hll office was borne hither In the Gesto Gesta torla and escorted with great pomp to the papal throne The noble guards and many other officials w were rl present In full uniform and the whole pageant was Val strikingly At night there thue were civic and an that up the Eternal CIty with wonderful brilliancy In these there days daYI the cardinal arch priest n n nys says ys mau mag In St Peters the pope of In th within the tho Vatican palace Iu Only a favored few ate are present Pull Full d dries I Ia required for tor the themen men and a Spanish mantilla thrown over the dress drell for tor the women In many ot of the full tIled wax ax Jr ot of Christ the Virgin MatY and Mary lary Magdalene are n a procession by and are made mad to perform II a sort of pantomime signifying the discovery of the on of th the Savior by the two Marys far In III th the at fk church Raster Rester III ii be begun i gun with a midnight maps ma The richly robed priests and th the choir of men and andOOs boys OOs ate are scarcely visible In the prevail In Ints dusk until a rocket announcing midnight the priests and Imd choir chair who had left the church n a few minutes minute be before before fore begin knocking at the door and as soon lOOn as It I Is ope opened nod hurr hurry In shout shouting ing Christ III fa risen Christ III b Bach bears lighted a taper from which everyone every one In the audie ee light hi his candle until the church Is Is ablaze with of at Mot Most American children think the col colored coll oreti ored eggs sus one ot of the moat Inot Important features of Easter celebration but they do not know ao much about abouL the hare that lays them as their German The white hare le Is th the delight delightful tul ful animal that the beautiful blue real pink purple and spotted eggs for tor good children according h tote th aura nur cry ery doctrines Students have traced the introduction of the hart hare Into Elt Elter er tradition from the fact that this la II lain In a sense 1 a lunar holiday and the tho hare ws was ancient in times a 11 symbol for forthe forthe the moon Also tho hare being born with its eyes open even W was J associated with the opening of the new year at Boater In man many paste of hare hunt Ing was originally lh an Important part t of the Easter snorts One of the moat famous custom Is II the hare scramble and bottle bettl kicking on leader Euter Monday At some lome remote time a 0 piece of land Imd was as bequeathed to the rector tor toron on condition that he should hould provide an annually two hare pies Iel a Quantity of ale als alsand and two dozen penny loaves to be scrambled for on each succeeding East Enst Easter Enster er Monday at the ground around called Hare I Pie flank Dank about II a quarter ot of a mile from the village One rector tried to divert the tho fund to a better purpose but he was warned No vie pie no parson and anda a job for tor the and gave In to the observance This I is the Ihs great carnival of the year rear for tor ton The two benevolent societies hold celebrations After the club sermon and ond dinner at the inns Inna a de deputation la II sent to the the plea 1 and beer Two men carry the pie cut up In sacks Three men nen carry each a 0 bottle two to being filled with beer and One being a dummy At Dank one of the bottles which 1 II with Iron II then used asa as a football the men from froma IL a neighboring village trying to kick It to goal 1001 and the to theirs Th The winner gets the beer But Dut the greatest struggle le 18 for the dummy which the people assert they thoy have never neer lost Easter Monday and Tuesday are boll holl days In England and IN Inland and on the continent are riven over oYer large largely to toi i sports and pastimes although some sarno of the picturesque have i been abandoned as al the young oung men seizing the young oun women shoes on Monday and the girls retaliating by taking the mens the next day and that good od old custom of wives he beating their one day and the bus hus bands banda returning the compliment the next On Easter Euter Tuesday the boy boys of I Christs Hospital In n London go to the Mansion to receive faster bobs from the lord mayor maor They get I i I first two bum ea b Then the lord mayor gives Iv to h a so and nd th the others coins coin proportion proportionate ate In value to their standing After being refreshed with I lemonade tilt the buys and the lord mayor II go to Christ church tu to hear the Ese rolling In the grounds round of tb the White house hu hits come to be a popular institution In Washington on Outer master Monday The Thursday before muter faster Thursday sl as tilt the time Ume nally set t apart for washing the tt feet as 1 an act of humiliation The pope t bIshops l and of houses housel still Act atad sett MV and dill did at 11 though thou h In late years no ages g except the I ot of have han carried It out The pOpe washed the thit feet of thirteen bishops representing the A Apostles and the angel who ho appeared to Gregory the Great while he was 81 performing an act of char charIt charity It ity The present reent pope teaches the feet of twelve beggars tl the Apron that hll he warn over oer his hili during the acre mony being rewarded liS as 1 a great grat trees treal ure and afterward is II by y the Bane nuns nUM Into to cover the chalices for tor the convents of their or er erder order der After washing and the tiro right foot of each ench beggar th pope o them during a supper and each men man finds find under hi his napkin a bank note not for fer francs nt The hot crow crOl buns of Go Good d Friday Frida have havo groat to recommend the them tn They go back to the time of Cecrope and the Ilba offered to and pies pau through tha le Jewish cake and th the bread or crow CIOlll marked or of th the e early church churchIn In London and nil In I parts ot of the tint first cr cry one hrs hears Oil on Good Friday morning I le Hot cross bunel The van vanders an andr dr ders have curious orl cries In regard to them One runs rune Ont One R a penny bU buye 8 Two 1 h pinny One n a penny penn 10 a penny Hot cross bUns Another One I a penny venny two a I penny nn Hot buns It If yoU no daughters Give them to your eon But Dut If you OU have none of th thew merry little elves Then you vou rna may keep them nil all for your yourselves selves The bun Is small and spiced and bears a cross on its augury top Chelsea for fora a 11 long loni time had a I great reputation for these buns bun III as many as having been sold lold In In R a day 10 by one house To carry cartY out the of a will made by a 11 woman before the great tire fire In London old women ap appear p pear every cery Good Friday In St Sl Dar Bar Bartholomew and In the tho presence of II a great t crowd pick up sixpences from the floor noor one who Vila I is too proud or too Infirm to stoop being barred from the possession of that tha Nast cum cumIn In Spain women a appear r In the streets In funeral garb on Goo Good 1 Friday Frida and tit the young youna men of fashion don black even en ento evento to jet stud and sleeve buttons I |
