Show amt as the eastertide expresses the whole ot of the sectarian church ices and ancient customs attached ahe festival of easter iram from palm aday unith 11 easter blaster monday so does include all the various toms selete and still observed of lueween lU oween een from om the alst of Oo bolber until the aning of the 3rd ard of november thle this d known as is full traditional and legendary lore n these customs custom fl we can trace the nature and thereof for the n and christian observances do blend together but tather rather stand rt t in startling the rious us quaint land and madcap games frames of Q have nothing in common so called ailed christian observances een Q to Is distinctly pagan and in its customs end no bertet la Is needed than that the english toms mg of the night are comparatively and have name the weird mys 1 attao attached hed to them that are to be d 1 in the wild games and amid amuse ilja ts of the welsh the irish and amid taie eh descendants of the boelts celts and VS whom held away long christian rites and services were tar to the saxon saxo n these anclena ancient belts celts ts fiercely resented any s tn auar religious belief and choist danity did at last gala gain a iad d amen ast their pagan we I 1 to country of t oat bat use an peculiar to halloween ewt poc pular or the CW gahwe have hame there has haa been one game ga me however that was left across the seas the puong of the stock circum stances over which the importers have had no control conspired to leave it behind perhaps because human nature craves what tt cannot have those ahoise who have shared in an the excitement of the suppressed pres seid fun of stock pulling and were prof latent at choosing cho straight runts from crooked ones onee in the dark are captious captions in declaring that bhat halloween is no halloween HaH oween wt at all ali without it but the small boy of this olty alty will take very emphatic objection to such auch a state statement anent the me frolics fro however of halloween Halt oween teace us that legend has bias its uses as well as history and theone the one rightly regarded ds no less valuable than the other the progress of froim the ages to the ultra culture bind aind refiner neut of the present day daay can only be traced by the study 0 of f the social life customs and dagy d aiila observances of our ancestors and so BO folklore must ver remain the key to the intelligent study of history hig bl tory if no inspiration Is available |