Show YESTERDAY n W AS S SU U nH b bLittle DAY Little Fellow Saw Ills Shadow And Winter Wi Continue i iFor For Six Weeks 4 HISTORY OF 0 F THE SUPERSTITION Confusion er the late Date t Some SonIc Claim ClaimIng Ing lug hat tt Should be bet t February 14 I Yesterday February J Z was wall what hat Is generally known as I or bear da d If I lbs he traditional the tIme theory theory ory cast can be bo relied many there thero are who would be willing to stake their nil alt upon It th n winter In III by no means moans over but on the tue contrary will continue for tor nt at least another six lx weeks That the little fellow saw flaw his shadow there can hardly bo be any doubt a as all allday allday day long Ion the tho th nuts nun shone milkIng the rny mi nl Ideal one ono for t r a return to his cosy den denAll All MI the thu people profess to believe In lit tho th his hl prophesying power They avon with great solemnity that thIs lila little II animal emerges from the nest neat at th bottom bOllum of ut his winter quarters on the lie morning of ot Fob Fab 2 and takes take u is I look About hint him If It Ifon on OIl 01 that ho lie catches a 1 of ot a black shadow behind him hu hi hf makes all nil haste Juste to tn be back In his hia hi warm nest siest of leaves leaven A for tor another nap imp df Of six If Jt however I WO CI the skies kleR tire tiro cloudy antI and a he falls to see fco even the tho faintest enow hiott of a n shadow he lie makes preparations for tor his spring work shakes rT cr his hilt lethargy and be lie begins gins to live once more There Thero ore lire n a great grea t ninny many people p o le who belIeve bellec In the thi groundhog and ground hog hoE tiny day arid anil they watch with sith anxiety especially e when coal Is ha I so M they will get sonic some Idea of ot just Juat bollt how much more morl money mone they must upend sPend before th the they y begin to buy Ice Instead In of ot fuel tuel All believers on ne groundhog agree as to his Ills manner of ot foretelling tor tie the weather but they the thedo do not oil all agree as liS to tho flue time when he ho appears Some tenaciously cling to tho the Idea Iden that thIC IIII little lUll makes his lube survey y Fob Joeb 2 while others otherA as nl tena tenn tenaciously cnn cloudy hold that lie lio contest up to take a w squint Feb eb 14 H or out oil 01 St Bt Valentines tiny The fhe only way to settle this lisle dispute stays nays nn iii eastern writer Is La to delve delvo back bnell Into folklore and mythology when It Is la really seen that Feb 2 Is the rue day daT lint Hilt It If h I quite easy en y to see teo how ho tho time people have hlo become con comm confused conCu fused Cu ed In their lutes Our ancestors were wore In the habit of ot keeping two high old ohl fount days dae during the Ito month of February They borrowed these festi festivities festivities from the Romans who wIse conquered about the tha time State of or tho the birth of ot Christ The first feast wig was lit iso honor If mother of Mars and the second was In honor of ot which occurred on Feb l eb 15 There was much frostIng feasting t on both bath th these the celebrations were as nil sumptuous and andas ns as n lively no as for the roistering participants to make them theta duty WIS tho the turning point of or winter and nOlI on that Ony ln n a great grent quantity of ot candles candies were burned bOrnel At It tins OS thought that th t birds and uncials mate Ind the custom of ot drawing unities sin single In gle gl men obtained wives wh was trite 19 widely pre lIre prevalent talent rodent The Tho teat feat was 1111 In honor of ot for fer fertility and alid It II was thought I that lint unions formed Cormel on out that lint day rIY were steno particularly fruitful ones Hut Dut when Europe became Christian Christianized the masses of the people were de determined to keep keel up tI their heir feasting on theeo two great grent days dJ The Tho religious leaders headers also saw FlitS 11 that It would not flat do to let lot them lucia pay hay IU reverence to heathen gods 8 to so they the lilt hlL upon a happy expedient expedient In Iii the place of ot l day they hey the appointed a n toast of ot the church called d antI ami wan trita changed to St Valentines day dllY Thu people however still Mill persisted per d upon and burning candles on the tho day lIay and drawing o names so BO the tho priests winked ut nt the Iho ho customs hut but maui from that time on the lie days thoys IIII haul halt now meanings Tho Ilie fh Scriptures lay cay iy that 40 O lays days matter litter the tho birth of Christ the Virgin Mary Mury took th tim Infant Je J Jostle us to the temple and took the child In ha his lila arms arnie dud prophesied that lie He should be a II light unto the he and nd time the glory of ot Is Ia Israel l mel rael Taking Christmas the birthday of Christ the day Ho lie was avas all brought to 10 the temple would have havo been Feb 2 The church chono eho f to celebrate this temple visit rather titan than keel keep a 11 hen hea heathen then thou goddess festival The now new feast day wa wn waS variously called 81 St tiny day Wives feast duy day Presentation tiny dav Purification tIny day and Christ pro pre presentation ll these were super samper superseded 1 by the name mutate which yet ot prevail In its Catholic ant Episcopalian 1 p communities ties tieR which li it they day |