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\ IIE proper flmr for custom is found in Washington, where the ceffliration of I the children gather in. the White Easter occasioned I House grounds on Easter Monday and little coatro- j roil eggs down the grassy slope In

rersy in the early •hurch. the great

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the first Jewish month, or moon— the date ot . the Passover: the Western Chrtstiens celebrated It on Sunday following the Hth day. claiming that this more nearly commemorated the insurrection of Christ. In SO the Council of Nice decided in favor of the Western usage, and branded the Eastern custom as the "iinartodecimen heresy." The time of .Easier being the most noetent and important of al! movable feasts of the Christian Church, deter-

front of the building. Egg contests survive In many rural parts of England. A popular game Is that of egg-smashing. Eggs are pitted ngaiust each other in a shell-breaking contest. The owner of -the egg that cracks the other taking the spoils home in a backet for an omelette. In Northumberland, if a man asks a woman for an egg on Easter, and Is refused, be may take Off her shoes and keep them until she pays a penalty. If It is a man who refuses the egg to a woman, she snatches away his cap and holds it for redemption by a money forfeit. The nppeurance of a symbolic East-ern-king .was until lately frequent in England and Continental Euro|>e. He rode gaily, attired with s-epter in his hand mid a crown on his head, to the

Usui church.

The association of the church and the egg is still maintaliic.1 In some of he remote provinces of Era nee. where o this day the priest makes Easter isitstohis parishioners to bless their homes, and is presented with eggs, both plain and colored. Eastern superstitions' are as aumeris as Easter ei stums. One of the oldest, and around whleb cling many folk-lore tales and legends, is the widespread belief In the sun participating in the general felicity of the on by dancing in the heavens on

the morning- in question to observe ; only the dancing sun. but the lamh and flqg in the centre of ihe disk. An old Scotch tiellef makes the sun , more active, for there It Is expected to whirl around like a rnill•Ueel and give three leaps. One way Ur watch for the sun's on-

handkerchief to be taken away by a young man. this Is a algnal of a proposal and acceptance. In the Austrian Tyrol Easter prankr like the first of April Jokes are the rule. Hospitality is universal at this time, and nobody asking for shelter and food Is refused. A Hungarian Easter eustoiti Is the ICalaka; it is a custom with something beside either foolish superstition

"KASTEtl MOKMNU." 'rom an engraving by I’. Hubelmann after the painting by B. Plockhorat.

perverted church legends behind it. The farmers of a certain district together and give one of their number —the poorest man in the'll lace—a day'i work. After the day of communistic labor Is over, there Is a cupper and more widely oeleUussla. and nowhere is ■gg so much In evidence on that is there. So man starts out

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HAPPY WiWfcN. Wouldn't any woman be happy. After years of backache suffering, Hays of misery, nights of unrest,. The distress of uriuoiy iroubiea. She finds relief and cure? ' So reason why suy reader Should suffer in the face of evident* like this: Irs. Aimira A. Jackson, of East int St., Traverse City. Miefi., soys:

"HE IS ROT HERE. EOT IS RISER."

Easter Suuur.y in tue country districts without a supply of eggs. After the morning service Is over priests ahd laymen click eggs together, as diner* 1 touch glasses in r. toast, as a ceremouy

of kindly feeling. .

It Is the Russian usage that uo lady, however lofty of birth, may refuse to

Midnight mass is said in churches of ' the tireek faith, and Just on the stroke elve a loud knocking commences at the door and is repeated several times. On the door belng.opeu«d the priests and their choir burry in. crying to the worshipers. In imitation of those of old who brought the news of the first resurrection to the died pies. "Christ is risenr It»requires but a minute to change the scene from the gloom of thq_ half-lighted church to le ablaze with many lighted tapers. In Germany, not the hen. but tbe hare. Is responsible for Easter eggs. The Boases In which good children live are visited at night by a white hare.

liot Cross Buns Jror JFri&afc ffioming.

mines ail the rest, timer the existing arrangement. Easter Sunday never can he earlier than March 'ii nor later than April 25. More than any other day of Christian observance it is connected with feasts and customs 'which antedate the birth of Christ. Aside from the Jewish festival which marked this time of year, almost every country and every people had its own peculiar rites with which to usher lu the spring: and many pa gan customs and superstitions therefore are Interwoven with the celebration of Eastertide. The Saxons and Angles celebrated the time as sacred to the Goddess Ostara. and some part of her worahip, taken over by the more anstere Christians. survives sttll In the springtime festivals, especially In tbe countries of isorthem Europe. For a long time tbe Christls*! Easter was an eight-day thanksgiving, approximating tbe time devoted by the pagans to their celebration. It was afterward ent down to tlire* d» ys. then to two. and finally i dwindled to a single day. commemorative of the resurrection. Almost every comity in England. Scotland. Ireland and YVals* has Its own peenilar custom of snpcrstltiou relative to the season. And in most of them the egg... tpjicsl af birth, had its plai-e as a special token and symlml of Easter. Undoubtedly the coloring of eggs nnd so-called "egg rollings" originated in a most curious game of ecclesiastical ball played with eggs in tbe churches of England in the Middle Ages by tbe

uonka.

Those eggs were colored red. in allaslon to the blood shed for sinners, ffro* the records It wonld'sppear tbst the rules of the game varied lu different churches, but .n the main tbe pastime the eggs were replaced by eggbaad to band bock and forth and crosswise lu a bewildering and complex figure. As a ndseed egg meant a smashed egg. this game proved detrfmental to church fcrnlahlhgs. and In time the egs were replaced by eggshaped balls, the prises for skillful ifiaying still being brightly dyeu eggs. .nother pastime, which still sur vlvrs. was to roll eggs down a hill, the r which reached the bottom Intact

winning the rest A survival of this during these a

usual gyrations was to observe i.:- “• flection lu a pool or pall of water, where any movement on the aiufaiv wonld materially strengthen the illusion. Naturally, whether one stared directly at the snn or watched the reflection in the water, human optics would very quickly see the staid old Orb of Day perform some most re-

markable antics.

In Iramltatlon of the sun. supposed to* rise on Easter Monday lu three, leaps, the curious, custom of lifting in the chair sttll exlsu In some parts of England and Ireland. The men lift the women on Easter Monday, tbe women on Easter Tuesday return the compliment, the victim being lifted three times and then klaaed. In Bulgaria young men and meet on’Easter Monday, congregating In the churchyard attired In holiday .tress, and Indulge In social games. If.

N England the morning of Good Friday is usb ered In with the cry of “Hot cross buns!" by the street - vender, and" these buns are found upon almost every breakfast table in the northern counties. There is a superstition that If hot cross bane this day they will prefrom disaster during the

keep for twelve

"Clt Ckriitin’i Jlrurr” —fainting by M. ffaancabnch. f the ret Is preceded by the proffer ot an «g- This D earn I. however, by the new the lady's put.

who hides numbers of beautifully colored eggs in nooks and corners for the children to find with much merrymaking on the morrow. A belief In some countries is that the belli (which are silent during Passion Week) have Journeyed to Home )to_j>btmln the Pope's blessing. They return Esster eve to welcome the resurrection. bringing with them tue gay-hued

eggs for good children.

In Hungary. In every cottage whose roof shelters a marriageable girl are to be seen on Easter morning branches of pine decorated with bows of ribbon. They hare been brougnt there over night by young men returning from the fields. The peasant knrer. accompanied by several mends, enters the house currying « pall, and says to the

are eaten serve one

year. They are said

months without turning moldy, and ne persons hang them in their homes charms against evil. The following es are found in Poor Robin's Al-

manac for 1773:

“Good Friday comes this month, the old With one or two a penny hot crass buna, Wnoae virtues is, if you'll believe whet's

said.

They'll not grow moldy like the common

bread.'

In several countries a small loaf of breed Is baked annually on the morning of Good Friday, and then put by until the next anniversary. This bread Is uot Intended to be eaten, but to be used as a medicine. It Is grated Into water before being given to the pa-

tient.

To make the English hot cross buns sift into a large bowl one quart of flour, half a cup of sugar and half a teaspoonful of salt; dissolve one-fourth of a cup of blitter in a generous half oint of warm milk, and add to the dry Ingredients, with the yolk of two beaten eggs; add half a yeast cake dissolved in a little water, half a nutmeg grated, and the whites of two eggs, beaten stiff: tills should make a very soft dough: cover the bowl with a clean cloth, place It where It will keep warm and let It rise over night In the morning, take pieces of the dough, the size of an egg. and with • little Hour, mold them into round cakes nn Inch lu thickness. Place them on a buttered tin. leaving a little spacs between. Cover the tins and set In a warm place for the buna to rise: they should be double their original slza With a sharp knife -cut a cross in the centre ot each bun. Bake them in a moderate oven about half au hour. When the buns are baked brush the top with a syrup made bf sugar and water.

Tba Babbits sod tbs Kgo. The little folks believe the rabbits lay the Easter eggs. With the dawn the small members of the family are up and searching for neats of multicolored eggs, over which a little white rabbit sometimes preside* But a candy one calls forth equal shrieks of delight. TIE MISPLACEt> CHILD.

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How They Interpreted It. We are taught not to be anxious fat the future, as the future will come In lime. We are taught in the Sermon on the Mount not tOsShlnk of the future. because the evil we do in one day is sufficient.—Answers of London school children.

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