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Show PIUTE COIOTV NEWS. JUNCTION. ITTAI1 OUR COMIC SECTION . . It contains the vitalizing eologist. element of democracy, which was unknown even in the Greek states and the Roman republic. And It possesses a command of natural forces which was not dreamed of 100 years ago. There Is nothing in the pages of history In any way tending to oppose the belief that our civilization Is per- ing of flowers and the siuglng of birds? It Is an Inspiring faith, that man shall live again. It is the antidote for the pessimism only occasionally rising as high as stoicism In the ancient world. It Is intimately associated with all that is best in human life. Mr. Itaymond Fosdlck remarked the other day thnt the feet of to those who carried the gruve are waiting at the door to Tills carry out our civilization. sounds like philosophy, but w susIf the date for the rerun ent celebrapect It Is not. Our civilization Is tion were to be arbitral lly selected, permeated with Christian Ideals and what date could bine been fitter than ethics, a picservatlve, an antiseptic that of the growing of the grasH, the unknown to the ehllVathms that confoliage draping the trees, the bloom cern only the historian and the arch date of Euster Is fixed by occurrence of the I'nssover. if there hud been no Pass-mc-r what more suitable time could have been selected for comthe ltesiirrectlon than memorating the season when nature, apparently dead, comes to life again? If a man die shall he live again?" lias been the plaintive interrogation of mankind from the earliest times. It expresses with the unlver-ra- l the universal hop doubt. The doubt Is resolved by the ltesiirrectlon : lie shall live ngaln. THE manent Ye are the salt of the earth," said the Founder of Christianity to those whom he had Imbued with Ills spirit. Salt prevents decay. Other civilizations hove decayed, but It may be that ours will not. And If It does not It will he due to all that Is swribollzed and reverently commemorated by Raster. From tills day forth, in memory of crucifixion, yc shall stain eggs rod ami ring streaked, us I myself have today. After the Nazarenes resurrection, Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the first- to piepare the red eggs and Easter buns, and to every one she Observances That met, she said: "lie la risen; joy be Easter Most Is with you; lie risen," und to each Seem Quaint to Us Are Painted With she gave an egg nnd a bun. Since then those who celebrate Easter have Pilgrims Gather at Patience and always done this. Jerusalem. Skill. How thoroughly peasant Is the legend I Only a simple people close Many quaint ceremonies grew up It would seem, on first thought, to the soil, with whom the necessities thnt Easter eggs are a purely small of life press close upon the heels of through the centuries In connection Yet groups of death, could have Imagined buns and with Easter. Some of the oddest are boy or girl Interest. that gather around cases colored eggs as having part In the those prevailing In the Latin coungrown-up- s of Moravian Easter eggs exhibited great tragedy. It gives the render a tries, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and In n Rations. each spring In the children's museum new sense of values, quite as snne, fact all the of the Cleveland Museum of Art at- perhaps as much stressed conceptions Among these peoples, Judas the betrayer plays an important part, aptest the fact that the most childlike of darkness and mystery. not lose pealing strongly to their vivid imagindoes well If he It done, woven Little of baskets grasses, thing, Some of the visitors each holding an egg In place, add ations, Ilarry L. Rogers writes, in Its attraction. are Interested In the gay colors, and much to the charm of the museum ex- Grit. Holy Saturday is especially devoted to Judas, and on this occasion the beautifully intricate designs; some hibit he Is flogged, burned, hanged, and K. G. are especially curious about the proceven blown up, In effigy. sometimes reess of decoration; others question Booths are erected In many of these of this the particular origin garding n towns, and figures of application of folk craft, and the cusJudas, distorted and grotesque, are toms and legends surrounding it. sold by the thousands. Ropes are In each Moravian, Polish and Bo- EGG SEEMED TYPICAL then strung across the streets, or hemian village. In fnct throughout all OF RENASCENT LIFE from house to house, from which the of eastern Europe, there Is an old sometimes efllgles are suspended, woman who colors the eggs for a loaded with a signal, At gunpowder. more In families. of Rumania, On That Account It Made Apnumber the efllgles are lighted, and the downgenerally, each housewife still prides peal to All Faiths. fall of the betrayer Is accomplished herself on the preparallon of eggs for with appropriate denunciations. on her own household. The designs Because the Puritans adjured this of the Christ, effigies Similarly, museum children's In the the eggs as they did all rituals of the Mary Magdalene, and the Virgin Mary festival, Their collection are very ancient. older Christian church, Easter did not an Important part in the celebraorigin Is found In leaf petals, flower become a popular season of rejoicing play In these countries, though untions of coll the outlines, bird feathers, the and ceremony In this until like the figures of Judas, they are small shell, all long since convention- after the Civil war. But country now our ob- treated with profound reverence and alized Into stars, scrolls and other servances to approach those of respect, often being paraded begin through figures. There are also Innumerable the Old world In elaborateness nnd the streets by priests and lighted by geometric patterns. The colors are Easter eggs have been given an al- hundreds of cnndles. simple and bright, made In the be- most official recognition by the tradiThe ceremonies at Easter time In ginning from dyes prepared by the tional egg rolling on the White House Rome, seat of the Holy Catholic from gull themselves herbs, peasants every Easter Monday. church, are particularly, elaborate and and vegetable sources. Blue, yellow grounds When the curious person desires to Impressive. But It la In Palestine, and red are the principal hues, though his curiosity ns to how the egg among the holy places, that the most black Is used with distinctive effect satisfy betaine connected with observance of impressive celebration of Easter ocThe Color Process. Resurrection day and who started col- curs. From of the world, The method of putting the color on- oring the eggs and why, he soon en- thousands of every partassemble at the pilgrims It counters to the egg is quite complicated. conflicting testimony. On Monday of holy holy sepulchre. batik. of the like is somewhat process A spring festival was celebrated by week, the pilgrimage to the River The old peasant woman first of all, the pagnns long before Christianity. Jordan takes place, and some 80,000 washes the eggs In sour milk and of of every nationality, the faithful, warms them by the fire where she and almost every creed, splash In the has put some wax to melt. Using an consecrated waters at Jordan ford, Instrument like a wooden pencil with dipping themselves thrice in honor of a tiny metal tube at the end, " the Trinity, and filling bottles, pans she picks up the melted wax and careand other receptacles with the mifully draws lines or rows of points on raculous waters. on each. the egg, varying the design Often ragged and footsore, the pilIf the eggs are merely to be dyed visit the holy places the grims In some the time red, they are left of the Ascension, where beChapel d.ve, and then put In boiling water, lievers may see the rock with the leaves and oft the wax, which takes footprint of Jesus; the Garden of the white background of the egg shell Gethsemane; the Grotto of Agony, In Its place, so that we now have a where Judas kissed the Lord. Up the If red egg with a white pattern. Via Dolorosa, with Its fourteen stawax he to is the color used, another tions each commemorating some act Is left on after the egg comes out of ChrKt, the pilgrims crowd to the of the first d.ve and additional wax Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where whatis put on over the red, to hold they jostle each other to kiss the unPagan Easter Ceremony. ever pattern Is to appear in red; then dulation In the stone wall made by Pass-ovinew black r d.ve, the egg Is laid in the The Jews held their feast of the fell from the shoulder of Jesus as When the black has for instance. at this season. The name Easter the cross. Afterward thishevast army thoroughly overlaid the egg, boiling Is derived from that of a Noulic god- of Armenians. Russians, roles, Tutks. water takes oft all the wax and we dess. Most of the early converts to Europeans, and Amerihave a Mack egg with a red and white Christianity were Jews and their cele- Jews, Syrians, sometimes elbow each other too, cans, By postponing the use of brations took on a double significance. In their pattern. to purchase the eagerness more and Our present customs doubtless prethe boiling water drawing relics vended fakirs In the holy by patterns In wax, the number of colors serve elements from all these various market places. Grit. sources. may be increased. Because Easter originally celebrated An Easter Legend. There Is a quaint and curiously the rebirth of nature after the cold touching legend In these eastern coun- sterility of winter, the egg furnNhed tries that explains the decoration of a splendid symbol of renascent life. The Joy of Easter It has the same Scholars have traced the custom of eggs at Easter. In the of to gray of the early morning, the hack on times tle as the patterns giving eggs simple directness while yet the city slept, Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks. the egg themselves. his watch Romans and others. To all of these And only the old The story is told that while Jc-u- s in the church-towe- r kept. was being tortured on the cross, M try peoples the egg was an obvious symj On a sudden the chimes of Easter fell went through the crowd o persecutors bol of life. like a silver rain, have also been found Imlh aliens a with basket them to bribe trying rills of mellow music laved the And and of custom stain the her that dyeing in of eggs. Being unsuccessful, season is very an, lent. j weapy heart and brain. this at at eggN the the mg she eggs placed despair, I foot of the cross where they were Among the Persians, the egg was the Awake, for the Lord Is risen they Is The oer. mundane m the of the night sang egg, stained with blood from the wounds on for which Orinudz, the god of From .the graves of sin or sorrov of Jesus. When he saw this, accoid ' arise, rejoice, adore g' ; and Ahriman. the god of dark-- r lng to the old story, he said to his w c- Grit contending na were stand. .n.u. apostles who Moravian Easter Eggs Have Real , Ceremonies Odd and Impressive my Artistic Worth in Latin Lands - Intricate Designs MICKIE, THE PRINTERS DEVIL Not Up on Art Latln-Amerlca- Latln-Amerlca- THE FEATHERHEADS Righto j bell-ring- 1 1 i |