| Show YESTERDAY f T D f W AS S SG G GROUNDHOG n DAYS I little Fellow Saw Sav Sa His Ills Shadow And Winter Will Continue j For Six SL Weeks j HISTORY OF 0 F THE SUPERSTITION Confusion thor m the I hate lIate ate Some SortIe Claim in Chilt 1 Sh Should be tit February 11 February J Z was what hM Is generally known as liS groundhog or orb bear b nr lay day de and If It the time traditional the tho theory theory ory call bo relied upon and many there tire are nI who would be bo willing to stake sPike their timely all nil upon Ullon lt winter IB Is by b no means menns over o r but hut on the time contrary will continue for tor at least another six weeks That tho the little fellow tellow aw saw iris his hl low there lucre can hardly bo be u any nim an doubt as ns nil till day lIay long Jon the time sun shone honc beautifully making the tite day dllY on nil ideal ono one for n a nr return r to his cony COllY den denAll All time tile people Profess profesa to believe c In iii thu his prophesying power Lower They avow aol with gmt I solemnity lol that this tItle animal emerges from roam the nest lest at ott the thu bottom holtom of or lila hilt winter quarters on the tho morning returning of Feb 2 mural and takes taken u mu look about him If Ifon Ifon on that auspicious morning ho lie catches a Ii glimpse of a 1 black behind him he all nil haste to l ito be o back In hit his warm nest of leaves for Cor another nap mini of ot six Fix weeks if Jt however tho time skies ekis H am are cloudy and anti ho falls to see sou oven even tile the faintest 1 show hol of a shadow e 0 1 he makes preparations for his lila spring work shakes off oft his hla lethargy aunt and be lIl begins begins gins glnN to live lIe once more There mire uro a mu great many 11 who believe In the groundhog and amid ground groundhog groundhog hog ho duty anti and they watch with great especially when coal coni IH is I dear so o they tile will gut get II some jome Idea of If Just Juet how lIow much more money mone they must mURt upend spend before betor they timey begin to buy U Ice instead of fuel tuel All believers on Oil the groundhog agree ns as to his hll manner of or foretelling th weather but they do tb not nil all agree its ns to the timi time when then he appears appear Home Borne Hom tenaciously I cling to 10 thu Ihl Idea Idell that the little uniting makes his lila survey SureY Fob Fehm oh 2 while others as ns tena temma tenaciously hold that lie ho comes Conies up to take a n weather wea ther squint Feb 14 H or on en St Valentines tiny The only way to nettle Kettle this Ihl dispute says an nil eastern writer Is to delve dehe back hack Into Inlo folklore folk ore unit ami mythology when It Is III i really reen E n that Feb 2 Is the true tue groundhog tiny day da Hut Dut It In I quite easy to see how tho the people leone have IHO become coil coi fused In their dates Our ancestors were In the habit of keeping two high old feast r days during the time month of February They lh borrowed these festi festivities festivities mom the time Romans nomans who conquered England about the th time of ot the tho birth of The fhe feast was In lii honor honorof of ot mother of Mars and tho the second was wall In iii honor of which occurred on an Feb 15 1 There wile much frosting feasting f on out both these thelle days find the lie celebrations Were wore ns tie sumptuous um and no lilt lively an nil for tor the Iho lie roistering participants to make them tiny was considered tho the turning point of or winter whiter and on out that tiny day n a great quantity of candles were wore burned At It was tans thought that birds anti and mate and nud tho the custom of ot drawing arn wing names mutinies whereby sin simm gle Kle men muon obtained wives w was widely pre lire prevalent talent valent The Time feat tea I Willi in Imi honor of ot fer for fertility anti and It II was wall thought that lint unions orated formed on oh that hint tiny day were particularly fruitful one Hut But when wilen Europe 1 became Christian Christianized lied tho the masses S of the people wore were de dt determined to keep keehl up their feasting on these there two great days The Time religious leaders leadore r also saw sll that It would not Hot do tIn to let them pay 1111 reverence O to heathen JIH BO eo timeS they tho hIt lilt upon a n happy expedient Went In lit IlIth time the place of day they the appointed l a feast of ot the lie church called ant mind wits was changed Chilli gel to St Valentines day III rims Tho people however still persisted upon Ulon processions anti ami burning on the lie tIny day arid and drawing of o names no ito time the priests ideals Nt winked at lit the Iho customs but hUI from that hint time line on Oil time the Guys days hall had new now meaning nIl men III n RN Tim kite Scriptures say Ma that 40 days after aftertime the time birth of qt Christ the Mary tacit time the Infant Jeus to the and Simeon took the time child in III his hili arms And Amid prophesied rd that lint lie should be IJO a light unto the gentiles arid and the tIme glory glor of ot Is Israel rael rn I Christmas Christians the birthday of ot Christ the time lay 1111 He lie was brought to the time t would have hao been Fob 2 The Tho church chose to 10 celebrate this visit rattler rather than limit keep a lien hea thin goddess festival TIme The new now feast east ten t l 1 at St 81 a ado tiny Willi variously coiled called till do Wives WIe Ce feast da day tutu till anti Christ a pro pre these were by 1 time the minnie which yet et d In Catholic and l pl ties which Is day |
