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charger of eggs in the midst.
Bellefonte, Pa., April 2, 1926.
EASTER SYMBOLS
THROUGH AGES.
Do you ever wonder why we use
the egg and the hare as symbols of
Easter? Why we connect the two?
They are symbols as old as man him-
self. Easter, apparently a solar fes-
tival connected with the equinox, is
in reality a moon festival. The hare
is the symbol of the moon, the meas-
urer of time, and the egg with its
buried germ represents the revival of
life. In the mythology and religion
of the most ancient peoples both are
used. Modern people have joined
them in curious fashion.
Qur Feast of the Resurrection is a
mingling of the many feasts of many
peoples. It had its direct origin in
the Festival of the Jewish Passover
which Christians continued to observe
according to established traditions.
At an appointed time in a certain
Iunar month the Lord commanded the
Jews to make prescribed sacrifices
and to eat certain foods—roast lamb,
unleavened bread, and bitter herbs—
saying, “It is the sacrifice of the
Lord’s Passover, who passed over the
houses of the children of Israel in
Egypt when he smote the Egyptians
and delivered our houses.” Later “to
suit the circumstance of their history
as a type of their departure from the
land of Egypt the egg was made a
part of the furnishing of the table
‘with the Paschal Lamb.”
CELEBRATING THE PASSOVER.
Through the centuries the funda-
‘mental ideas of why and when to cele-
‘brate the Passover have not changed.
As a moon festival we still give
‘thanks for salvation through rebirth.
‘In determining the time of the festi-
‘val the Jews and the eastern church
follow the old lunar reckoning which
.sometimes brings it before the vernal
equinox. The western church, though
it adopted the sun reckonings—the
Gregorian correction of the calendar
—for other things yet clings to a
moon reckoning for Easter and makes
it “the. first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next
.after the 21st of March. If the full
moon comes on Sunday, Easter is the
next Sunday thereafter.” This fixes
the date between the 22nd of March
and the 25th of April. Twice in the
nineteenth century Jews and Chris-
tians celebrated on the same day and
three times during this century the
.dates will coincide. That the holiday
period connected with Easter has been
shortened, that other feasts having
ideas in common with it have been
merged, that sacrifices have been done
away with, that the original foods,
with the exception of the egg, have
fallen into disuse—these are non-es-
sentials. The feast retains its origin-
al character.
EGG ALWAYS EASTER SYMBOL.
The egg as symbol did not origin-
ate with and was not confined to the
Jews but was common to Persians,
Phoenicians, Egyptians, Japanese,
Greeks and Romans, as well as the
Teutonic tribes of Gaul. The Per-
sians made it represent the triumph
of the Sun of Nature and used it as
their New Year celebration. They be-
lieved that the world was hatched
from an egg at the vernal equinox.
Hindus, many Eastern peoples, and
Romans, had it typify the universe,
the work of the Supreme Deity; the
‘Teutonic tribes used it at their cele-
bration in honor of Ostara—really
Ashtorath, the Egyptian Goddess of
the Moon—whom they called Goddess
of Spring, and from whom we get the
name now applied to our feast. Our
use of it is that of a symbol for a
symbolic idea.
The egg, at all times a symbol,
serves a three-fold purpose—food,
plaything, and gift. Everywhere the
prescribed manner of use is to boil it
hard in some non-poisonous stain,
preferably red, the color of Christ’s
blood, and decorate it with mottoes,
landscapes or symobls of the resurrec-
tion. Accounts of the use of Easter
eggs made interesting many pages of
religious history.
ITALIAN EASTER CUSTOMS,
Emilianne gives the following de-
scription of an Italian practice: “On
Easter eve and Easter day all the
heads of families send great chargers
full of hard-boiled eggs to the church,
to get them blessed, which the priests
perform by making several appointed
prayers and making great signs of
the cross over them, and sprinkling
them with holy water. These blessed
..eggs have the virtue of sanctifying
‘the entrails of the body and are the
“first fat or fleshy nourishment they
“take after the abstinence of Lent. As
soon as the eggs are blessed everyone
carries his portion home and causeth
:a large table to be set in the best
room in the house, which they cover
with their best linen bestrewn with
flowers, and place round about it a
«dozen dishes of meat and the great
Tis a
very pleasant sight to see the tables
set forth in the houses of great per-
. sons, ‘when they expose on the side
© tables round about the chamber all
“Xbhe plate they have in the house and
whatever else they have that is rich
and curious, in honor of the Easter
feast.”
In the roll of expenses for the royal
household of King Edward 1, there
occurs this item for a certain Easter
Sunday: “Four hundred and a half
eggs, 18 pence. These were stained
in boiling or covered with gold leaf
and afterwards distributed to the roy-
al household. oh
In early days all Christians greet-
ed each other at the Easter time with
the words “Surrexit” (Christ has ris-
en) and the response, “Surrexitvere”
«Christ has, indeed, risen.” Even now
in Russia, where Easter is set apart
as a time for paying visits as well as
for going to church, friends greet
each other with the old form of salu-
tation, the kiss of peace, and a gift
of hard-boiled egg.
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Calculation of Size
of Statue of Apolo
The famous problem concerning the
size of the colossal statue of Apollo on
the island of Delos, which has wor-
ried so many savants, has finally been
solved.
We are familiar with the Delos
Apollo only in miniature, as represent-
ed on the Attic tetradrachm, an an-
cient Greek coim, where the god is
shown holding the three Graces in his
right hand.
At a recent meeting of the academy
of inscriptions Theodore Reinach an-
nounced that he had calculated, with
the aid of history as weil as mathe-
matics, the size of Apollo and the
three Graces. This archaic colossus at
Delos was the masterpiece, in gilded
wood, of the sculptors Tectaols and
Angelion who flourished between 550
and 530 B. C.
The three Graces, which were not
grouped, but separated and erect, bore,
respectively, the zyther, the double
flute and the pipes of Pan. They stood
in the palm of Apollo's right hand. In
his left hand he carried a bow. The
colossus and its three statues were
destroyed by fire.
With the assistance of a Delian in-
scription which mentioned the weight
of the gold crowns designed for the
god and the Graces, M. Reinach esti-
mated the relative heights of the fig-
ures as eight meters for the Apollo
and one meter eighty centimeters for
each of the Graces.—From Le Figaro
Hebdomadaire, Paris. Translated for
the Kansas City Star.
Idea of Inferiority
Not at All Uncommon
The feeling of inferiority is an ex-
perience so nearly universal that it
cannot be considered abnormal or evi-
dence of disease, declares a writer in
Hygela Magazine. Most of us have had
this feeling at some time in our lives,
such as when making a speech, under-
taking a new job, or taking a prominent
part in some social function. The
stammering, trembling, palpitation and
emptiness of mind which comes at be-
ing called on to face a new situatior
are familiar to all of us.
However, by establishing habits of
courage and self-reliance and by learn-
ing to attend to the matter in hand
rather than to our feelings, most of us
have been able to overcome these dif-
ficulties. If these feelings of inability
to meet the situation are not faced
frankly and overcome, one establishes
a habit of fear. Then the sense of
failure and the feelings of inferiority
become habitual, and one’s lot will be
indeed unhappy.
Burmese Rubies Best
The finest ruby mines are those of
Mogok in Upper Burma. It is from
these” nines that the pigeon-blood
rubies come. These are considered
very valuable. There are also mines
in the neighboring country of Siam.
These Siamese rubies are of a brown-
ish red. The Burmese rubies bring
from two to ten times as much as
the Siamese rubies. The Burma mines
are’ now controlled .by ‘the Ruby
Mines, Ltd, of London. Among the
largest rubies may be mentioned two
belonging to the king of Bishenpur,
in India, which weighed 5034 and 17%
carats, respectively. The largest ruby
known is one from Tibet, weighing
2,000 carats, but it is not of first
quality.
Conversation
The secret of being agreeable in
conversation has been described as
being honorable to the ideas of oth-
ers. There are people who evidently
only half listen to you because they
are considering, even while you speak,
with what fine words, what wealth of
wit, they will reply, and they begin
to speak almost before your sentence
has died upon your .lips. These peo-
ple may be brilliant, witty, dazzling,
but never can they be agreeable. You
do not love to talk to them. You feel
that they are impatient for their turn
to come, and that they have no hos-
pitality toward your thoughts, none
of that gentle friendliness which asks
your idea and makes much of it.
Good Lesson
The teacher was giving the class a
tecture on honesty. “Now, then,” he
said, pointing to a boy in the back
row, “suppose a friend lent you his
overcoat, and, putting it on, you
found in one of the pockets a quarter
which your friend had completely
forgotten. You wouldn't keep that
quarter, would you?”
“Certainly not.”
“That's right,” said the teacher
“What would you do?”
~I would spend it.”
Add Boneheads in Business
They are telling in Cape Town the
story of an actor who took a suit of
evening clothes to a tailor “to be let
out.” As he needed the suit for the
evening performance he called for it
just before closing time. .
“What about my clothes?” he asked.
“Most successful ; most successful!”
oeamed the tailor. “I've managed to
let them out for a month at a shilling
a week.”
Ambiguous
The carol singers were having an
argument.
“Look here, Binks,” said the leader,
“if this carol is to be a success you
must sing louder.”
Binks—I'm singing as loud as 1
can. What more can I do?
“Be enthusiastic; open your mouth
and th-ow yourself In!”"—Pearson's
Weekly,
His Hardest Task.
Parson Tenthly and Deacon Dutton
‘were discussing their automobiles and
the talk gradually took in every de-
tail connected with automotive en-
gineering. The conversation began
with tires and ended with the beam
YOU SHOULD HAVE
A Reliable Executor
of light cast 100 feet up the road by
the spotlight on the windshield.
“What do you find the hardest
thing to overcome when driving your
car, Parson?” the deacon wanted to
know.
“The desire to talk back to my
wife,” the . good man answered.—
From the Savannah News.
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