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Show v-- . - : . r PAGE TWO THE BINGHAM PRESS BULLETIN X i -- ' S 1 K Learned J I , Tin 1 1. : --a lz ( 5 Professor Bunny, with a very leurned air, discusses a problem In Calculus. He explains that the reason why peo-ple eat colored Easter eggs on Easter la because It is Easter. : " 7l 4 By ELMO SCOTT WAT60N l A iJ, ( ft--. W . V . ' , ' 't.' 'ivj pBB ASTER SUNDAY this year falls on t T"AVVi W'"-- ' ' 1. J April 17. Last year It was April 4 U i W Y" 'i Vt , ,w , T'i iA and Hie year before, it was April v . I t . - . ? , 1 ,f OJ-i- 12. Next year It will fall on April 8. As everybody knows It is a variable W " ' I'M "v "St V date, sometimes falling in March WV - trWV jfe-- r h sometimes In April, but under Vtr ff 'S'J j&V'fy, . r , l - , 0. ? Nand present method of reckoning CECGRe?iittte V-'- C " &V 1 W tff 3) V Easter Sunday date, It cannot XaJXZ?&J I . - " A 'O 'me enrher than March 22 Dor r&rOTVS v , ' f;r- - "or the reason that Easter 27f"WfflTls MXj " ;T- v- ' " J Jk. 'mjJBrkai vlt therefore does not fetter dute on Amer-suc- h I, ;Lj: ' ' ' lVi as New Year's 'f-f- SSi" " " ' ' " f V,4' lrllpK jiee day, Washlng-iday- . f J fiS I have. In ' U?F. fJtTT ZZTT?' JP. Tsgivlng day or ft "t& ?r- - s $s f s ((TJ J day of the , , V . s )rTf7 ' Jin significance month. L'"l4tJ , ; ; i0L' ' ' iI Mf)W Is the To the f 'if 71 fMW anniversary of the resur-trr- . ,V - '4 V4 II " V"XVV . , u ii nfTTfi But that does not mean J "W aSd'1' - l! IL irvv "- that tne essential spirit of Easter means some-thing . s, . ?f (i Jjr xiiifeafc jnPt' --A to one part of t humanity, set off from the Jk ijjjf - I 4 "lAw "jljf&Qc r I rest by a religious classification, and means noth-ing , l itA v ,y'''f I to the rest of the human race. For Easter has t i T.v.V-,V- & mfJ-- VV s significance to all humankind and the keynote f JkM vna f! of that significance Is the one word "resurrection." Mkw,, ' 'V "l',f'l ft A A i Look at the word itaelf-Ea- ster. It is derived rf: v tTfT tV I W from the word East, and East is one of the four VV Vr J JA "ASJtFAf? fj cardinal po'nts. It Is also the cardinal point which frffi.m,Ttimi )L- - yJ' )' hai always been most Important In all religious 3CttZWY ATM IMn SZAV? Ji. SlA2ig SfT THZ FOf ceremonies of all races and creeds. This Is be-cause It Is the part of the heavens where the sun la seen to rise the sun, brlnger of light and heat, the very giver of life Itself! The most primitive Intelligence of the most primitive man recognized the fact that the sun and life were Inseparably associated and It was only natural that when he came to worship the thing which was greater than he, he should turn to the East whence came that greater and higher thing which he recognlxed as being the g power. Bo each day was to him a cycle of a whole life-time. In the morning as the sun came up, life came Into being. As the sun mounted In the heavens life grew In Its lusty youth and Increased In power. At Its zenith, life, too, was at Its highest point. As the sun declined, so life declined Into old age, Into weakness, until there came darkness, the synonym for death. After a period of dark-ness, life came again. There was a resurrection end once more, the cycle of a life-tim- e compressed Into 24 hours, there was life I And that, stripped of all the tradition, myth, legend, custom and social practice that ,has attached Itself to Easter, Is the spirit and the message of Easter, all concentrated In the one word "resurrection." So Easter has a significance that no other red-lett- day on our calendars has and that significance Is the significance of one of the fundamental and inevitable facts of exist-ence. It Is conceivable that all other red-lett-days may be abolished from our calendars, that the calendar Itself may be done away with. But, no matter what may happen, so long as human life exists on this earth, the spirit of Easter will survive. When It ends, then ends all hope for mankind, all reason for mankind's struggle to exist. If "resurrection" Is the the spirit and the mes-sage of Easter, then the Inmost essence of that spirit can be summed up lu the one word "Im-mortality." If man can find an answer to the old, old question that has troubled him through the ages, the question "Does death end all?" he can find It In the message of Easter. It Is reas-surance thpt the struggle to live Is worth while and that he Joes not face a hopeless task. Even If he did not have the comfort of his religion to help him arrive at that belief, he finds It In the mere fact of living. Each day, each year and each lifetime he sees the cycle repeated. The sun comes up in the morning and goes down Into dark-ness at night But he knows that it will come up again the next morning. Each 24 hours he sees the miracle of resurrection. New life Is manifest In the animal and vegetable kingdoms with each recurring spring. It ripens In the heat of summertime and mellow maturity lu the autumn, only to die In W But he knows that life it next Bprlng. Bach J?,,'"?. Ic,.,- - rncle of Murrec- - that the cycle of a lifetime includes a resurrection Just as does the daily cycle and the yearly cycle? He does so believe and from that belief comes his belief In tEe life everlasting, In Immortality. Perhaps It would be more accurate to say he chooses to believe. For few men, if any, have ever solved the riddle of life to their utter satis-faction. They constantly grope for the truth, seek-ing, always seeking, the answer to the unsolved problems of life. They have the never-endin- g longing In their hearts for everlasting life and they choose to believe, and take comfort from the belief, that they shall have it. So whether he be primitive man or modern, civilized man, whether he be Christian or heathen, the essential spirit of Easter, the message of Easter Is the same It Is a message of hope, a message of Joy and a promise and a fulfillment In one. That message Is delivered to man In many forms. It comes to him In the riot of bird songs which greet the sun on every morning In spring. It comes to him In the greenness of the grass, in the swelling buds on the trees, In the flowers which push their way up through the earth when the warming touch of the sun is laid upon It. It comes to him In the softness of the blue sky. In the fleecy clouds fIo"'tng above him and In the gentle caress of iliu bieezes that touch his face as he goes forth to start each day's work. It comes to him, too, as he watches young animal life about him lambs, calves and colts wabbling about unsteadily at first and then, as they gain strength, running around In those funny, awk-ward, d little Jumps which are always so fasclnntlng to watch. It comes to him every minute of the day as Nature, in all her forms, cries out exultlngly "Spring has come! Spring has come!" Even If she did not tell him in those words, he would know It himself In the surge of new strength In his own body, In the quickening of his blood after Its winter sluggishness. As he hears the call of spring and the message of Easter he feels the de-sire to pass the message along. He passes It along In as many ways as it comes to him in note in his voice as he greets his friends, In the little snatches of song which he finds himself sing-ing and In the effort which he makes constantly to put that message Into words. One of those efforts takes the form of writing poetry. Even though the spring poet Is a subject for many of our stock Jokes, the fact remains that the urge to write poetry Is a part of man's effort to pass along the message of spring. For all spring poetry is fundamentally an effort to express the feeling of resurrected life. And Easter, which represents the crystallized spirit of spring, probably brings forth more attempts at poetic ex-pression and perhaps more real poetry than any other day on our calendar. nl "feJia ( poeTn roiay At Easter Time Easter lilies, daffodils, All the world their perfume fills, While adown the dim aisles ringing Hallelujahs. Hark the aiming. Echoed In the far-o- ff hills. ' Waiting time Is o'er at last; Finished all the prayer and fast; Woodland songs are echoing. Woodland bowers beckonfnc; All the waiting time Is past. Hal the glad, sweet Easter Day! Lifted Is the veil of gray. Christ Is risen In His glory; It Is finished now, the story; Clouds of gloom have rolled away. Hallel'-Jn- Joyous sound; What was Bought at last Is foftnd, Throufth the dim aisles hear It ringing, All through woodlands hear the singing, Echoing the world around. AAon. f St' tt ""Easter Day Words cannot utter Christ His returning:' Mankind, keep jubilee, Strip off your mourning. Crown you with garlands, Set your lamps burning. Speech Is left speechless; Set yT)U to singing, Fling your hearts open wld. Set your bf.lls rlnglnjf : Christ the Chief Reaper Comes, His sheaf bringing. Earth wakoi her song-Mrd- s, Puis on her flowers, Leads cut her lambkins, Builds up her bowers: This Is man's spousal day, Christ's day and ours. Christina RossettL r us Corpus Christi Haste, flaming torches of advancing dawn. Unto the Tomb, confirm Its vacancy, That every eye In certain day can see It Is no dream of worn centurion, Nor any parable of Gentile lore. That Chrlstvhath risen and goeth on before His very mourners Into Galilee, Parsing mid lilies redolont with prayer-W- hite as the wings which seraphim unfold In grace above their coronets of gold, Or as the robes trlumphnnt saints will wear He blesseth by his presence In the way Each creature waklnp to eternal day; Ere this God's purposes were but half told. His flesh was rent apart on Calvary, Those veins which opened at the spear's mad thraa Gave priceless blood unto the very dust: Yet not all hell could change the prophecy That not a bone of him should mortals break Nor worldly kings from him his portion take While high above earth's darkness reigned the Just kXio, though torn by many a man-mad- e creed Nsyirments of our faith still see i to be, oundation cf our hope is Ho. survlvlng every foe, the Beed j! Word In stanch and fertile prround f till all its flowers of Love abound; 'hall vanquish Immortality? Edna M. 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The genuine bears signature of DONT RUB) Hare Employedx as Symbol yMMi) of the Moon:y Doubtlesn many people have won-dered 'What relation to the Easter season is borne by the hosts of candy-hare-and rabbits which are displayed by the confectioners, side by side witli the Easter eggs. This association of the hare with the festival is an old custom among the Germans and has doubtless been Introduced Into this country by hem. Its origin Is remote ond rather vague, but the attempt to trace It brings our Interesting fucts. In an article by Katherlne Hlllard. In the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1800. the author went Into the subject of the Eaiter hare at length. Researches having shown that the hare was used by various ancient nations as a sym-bol of the moon, she prefaced her re-marks by some explanation of the close connection between the moon and Easter thus establishing the chain of related Ideas. For one thing, the mentioned that the Saxon goddess ni Easter Find. Koslre Is thoucht to have been Idei tlcal with Astarte, the Phoenician god-dess of the moon. Then followed an account of the Important part which the moon played in the religious my-thology of the Egyptians. Its differ-ent phases were thought to represent the conflict between the powers of good and evil. During the latter .ir waning half of the moon Typhori, the god of darkness and evil, was sup-posed to conquer Osiris, who repre rented light and the principle of good. Osiris, it was thought, was cut up Into 14 pieces, corresponding to the latter two weeks of the moon's monthly course. Then, "with the hew moon. Osiris came back to life, and at Its full the Egyptians sacrificed a black pig (representing the now conquered to Osiris. In the planisphere of Denderah, the god Khunsee is seen offering a pig by the leg in the disk of the full moon, and. continued the au-thor, "In some parts of England a leg of pig Is still eaten on Easter Monday a curious survival of this sacrifice." EGG IN HIGH PLACE AS SACRED EMBLEM Stood for Renovation of Mankind After Deluge. One writer says: "Eggs were held by the Egyptians as a sacred emblem of the renovation of mankind aftr the deluge. The Jews adopted it to suit the circumstancees of their his-tory." In Italy, Spain and Provence, where so many supersti-tions are retained, eggs have long fig-ured In the celebration at the time of the vernal equinox and sports with eggs have been Indulged In for cen-turies. This common occurrence of the egg in pagan, Jewish and Chris-tian observances gives the symbolism far more significance than if it were only found in one place, time or faith. A game played among the Chris-tian '.'hildreD of Mesopotamia consists ( In striking colored eggs agnlnst on another. The egg that breaks f , Is won by the owner of the egf struck It. Immediately another ej, c pitted against the winning egg , thus the game goes on for "keeps" u til the last remaining egg wins all the others. Pre Y-'- jilt' v .A f A . ? & 8 b I . .if North Adnms, O-- 'Jving dog." Brownie, s g .ii because of his color, s sy'.owlmming better than any-- . Doris says that one of big t .lUiits Is to stand on his hind legs and dive Into the water. Brownie does all the other "dog" tricks, such as "praying," sitting up, and speaking for his dinner, but Doris and her friends think that bis "diving" stunt Is entirely different from anything else that dogs usually do. Washing-ton Star. Svoect Pickup The purchaser, of a house In Cav- - :. endish, Yt., received a bonus of twen-ty pounds of fine honey. The house had been unoccupied for several years. He found the honey In the chimney and was able to collect It in good Electric Flu Cunt Machine A Greek doctor ifiimed TslrovAas. claims to have Invented an electric. machine which - he asserts will kill the Influenza microbe In fiftegs min-utes. ; Easter morn in radiant fflory Dawneth o'er the earth agalni Buretlnff blossoms tell the Btory O'er and o'er In pried refrain. From their prison Have they risen; Resurrection are they singing, Praise to their Creator bringing. Lord of Easter, let thy glory Ease our sorrowing hearts of pain! O'er and o'er the wondrous story May we sing In glad refrain: Christ fp rise From death's prison. Light from darkness Faith Is bringing Joy .?nd hope are now upspringing. Helen Elizabeth Coolldfre. in the Ohl Farmer. The Christian Easier In the Christian church Easter day Is a festival observed In commemora-tion of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, occurring on Sunday, the third clay after His crucifixion (Good Fri-day), and ending the-- penitential forty days of Lent, which begins on ASh Wednesday. It answers to Pascha or Passover of the Hebrews, and many nations still give It this name. Th Passover is n feast of the Jews com-memorating their escape from Egypt, when God, smiting the first born of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of the paschal lamb. ' Our ancient ancestors celebrated this festival In April of each year, which I was called Eoster monath. Some au-thorities record Christ's resurrection as having taken place on Aniil 9. SO A. D. I The Derivation . "You've never been to Tndla why do you call your home Simla?" "Because It's sim'lar to every other house on the street." This Is the message of Easter for us. hat there is a life beyond life. Out-work implies the need of hope to make the present-da- tasks prepare us for somethiiig: to come after us. This is to live nobly and to grasp the inner meaning of that which so often baffles us. As Browning has conceived It: How very hard It Is to be A Christian! Hard for you and me, Not the m;re task of making real That duty up to Us ideal, Effecting thus, complete and whole, A purpose of the human soul For Mai is always hard to do; But htrd, I mean, for me and you To re .lize It, more or less. With even the moderate success. WhlcT commonly our strife To ca'iy cut the alms of life. Easter and Fashions For many people Easter Sunday has other than a religious significance. On that day In London, more than half the population appear In new clothes on Easter Sunday, and in New York you will hardly find sr1,,"r''"n man, woman or child w decked out In new finery y to foot. Even the little Jl of the East side save up months ahead, and on the 6v parade up and down Third oil avenue In brilliant If somew sh colors. " - f EASTER Is the appointed Resurrection of Restoration of the spiritual !l: qualities that have become blurred and marred in the ba'tle with the material. Faith that whatever Is, is best - Faith in the knowledge that nothing dies will wipe mii -- Minding tears and |