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Member International Chick ck Book. > rthampton BUFFALO, N.Y aud Large Iuside Lots, Pere r city « BIGH SG E-SAVER OF (CHILDRE 650 cents at druggi nausea. C0., NEWBURGH, N. Y, rs Co Pens ROUP REMEDY 8, or ITTSBURGH, NO. 12..1928, THE PATTON COURIER “il OE A> By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Ee ASTER means many things to many people. To some it means new frocks and new mil- linery. To some it means the end of Lent, a pe- riod of self-imposed ab- stinence from worldly pleasures. To others it means the beauty of the white lily. And to still others it means rabbits, Easter eggs and joys of ehildhood. But back of all these superficial symbols is the one essen- tial faet toward which all of them point—Easter day is the anniversary of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the spirit of Easter is the reas- surance that there is life after death, that the soul of man is immortal. Easter customs, like the which have come to be a Christmas, St. Valentine's day and oth- er holidays and special dates for ob- servance, are a mixture of the Chris- tian and the pagan. conscious of the true meaning and re- ligious significance of Easter, it is a matter for regret that many persons are seemingly more familiar with the pagan symbols, which have associated with Easter incidentally, than they ane with the true symbols of that day. They regard the empha- sis upon these symbols as customs become responsi- ble for the statement often made that “Easter, Christmas and other Chris- tian holidays are merely adopted pagan festivals,” and point out that this is a fallacy similar to an asser- tion that the American Fourth of July is a festival in honor of Chinese dra gon gods, adopted by the superstitious Yankees and associated in their su- perstition with the idea of their in- ilependence. Of course, knows that the use of firec which were invented by the Chinese as an offering to dragon gods, and every one ICKRers, the punk, with which the firecrackers | are lighted, wkist: awe burned as in- cense in Mongolian temples, came to be associated only by chance with Fourth of July celebrations and have | * nothing to do with the essential spirit of Independence day. Similarly the symbol of the white rabbit which lays Easter came to be associated with Easter day by chance and has nothing to do with its essential spirit. Regardless, however, of the phi- losophieal and theclogical aspects of this question, the association of some of these familiar pagan though they may have been in origin, with a Christian festival have a eertain inherent interest, The as sociation of the rabbit or hare with Easter has its foundations in the an cient belief in European and Asiatic countries that the hare is the symbol for the moon. The moon is the “open- eyed watcher of the night,” and the hare is a nocturnal animal. The young of the hare are born with their eyes open and are said never to close them. Since the date of Easter is governed by the moon, it is easily seen how the rabbit, which is the symbol for the moon, came to be an Easter symbol og eggs Easter symbols, ssociated with | To the Christian, | CA 7505 BE POSSIBLE P* Easter goes back to certain beliefs of the ancients also. Eggs had been as- sociated with the worship of Ash- toreth, of the Astarte of the Phoe- nicians, Isis of the Egyptians, Diana of the Greeks and Romans and Eostre, whom the Teutons worshiped in the spring. Incidentally, the name Eas- ter is said by some to be derived from the name of this Teutonic goddess, although others assert that it was named for an old pagan spring fes- tival in honor of the sun's new birth in the east. The Egyptians regarded he egg as-an emblem of the recre- ation of things and of man’s regen- eration. Then, too, the egg with its life germ destined to produce a liv- ing creature when warmed by the mother hen is easily associated with the idea of the earth blossoming forth under the warm ray® of tke sun in the spring, both closely akin to the general idea of resurrection. Since the Resurrection of Christ occurred in the spring, it is easy to see how the symbols of the egg and all re- vived life in the springtime came to be associated with this event in the history of Christianity. The egg as a symbol was taken over by the Hebrews as an emblem of their delivery from bondage and next the early Christians took it over as their symbol of the Resurrection. The more intimate the rabbit and the egg is probably due to a ‘pretty little legend which comes from Germany. It is as follows: yr day in early spr Rabbit was hurrying along the woodland path, taking some wild flowers to a sick woodchuck friend.” Suddenly she came upon a lot feathe in the path, She looked about her and then discovered a nest full of eggs. , dear me,” exclaimed Mrs. Bunny must have stolen the mother chicken, And there are her eggs, get- ting chilled. I'll just sit on them to keep them we So saying, she put down her bas and sat upon the nest, Imagine Mrs. Rabbit's surprise, when got up from the nest, th® next g and found that a family of s had hatched from the eggs. > their mother is gone I presume have to take re of the poor things,” said the tender-hearted | Mrs, Rabbit. This she did. Ever since | then the rabbit has been sociated with Easter and Easter e In some parts of northern Germany the children hang eggs on trees sim- ilar ta Christmas trees and candy fa- gifts and all sorts of Easter nov- elties are placed on the tree around which the children gather, and sing happy songs on Easter morning. Peasants in other European countries of loose Ss vors were accustomed to hang festoons of eggs over the chimney piece and to hand them down as heirlooms, for they were regarded as treasures to be kept and not as baubles to be de- stroyed or thrown away. In England, under the old ecclesiastical laws, rent was payable in Easter eggs; games were played with them (a fact which was probably the forerunners of Eas- ter “egg-rollings,” that ob- served each year on the White House lawn in Washington), especially by the children in north England. Still another association of the egg with such as also. The association of the egg with Cultivated Sponges Sponges are now cultivated like grain, It is strange to think of beds of sponges cultivated under the sea, but this is no stranger, after all, than beds of oysters. The method is to cut up very fine, healthy, living sponges—a sponge is quite as lively as an oyster—into seeds. These seeds, about half an inch in diameter, ere wired to blocks of Easter lay in the fact that it was | fections in the form of chocolate association of | contrary to religious tenets to eat eggs during Lent, but when marked the end of that period they er the fast to sanctify the body. The custom of dyeing Easter eggs goes back for many centuries. Peas- ants in the European countries dyed them red, as a symbol of Christ's blood, but the lords and ladies eov- ered theirs with gold leaf. Later more elaborate decorations were used. Sometimes they were marbled in a variety of colors; sometimes they bore cupids and love knots, flam- ing hearts and the signs of the zodiac. Sometimes they were halved and the shells hinged together with ribbon and lined with It paper and religious pictures. Among the Venetians it was the custom to give a friend a gift egg bearing the giver's portrait, and many other variations on egs decoration were common in France, Spain and Belgium. Half a century r0 Easter eggs were made of porcelain, ivory, moth- er-of-pearl, bronze, silver, or gold in the form of little cases to hold vari ous trinkets. But the modern chi favoring something useful a ornamental, prefers an which he can first eat. So we have the’ elaborate con- a nest of spun sug: plentiful supply of bits sitting on in which are a candy eggs. Even the Easter fashion when milady appears at this Sunday morning in a new frock and new millinery, is a symbol of resurrected life in the springtime parade church « ment, British tradition that it is “good luck to wear something new on day.” The Easter lily, as a symbol of E significance and the manifestations of nature. In its snow-white purity it is emblematic of the flawless life of the Christ. And when the lily bud opens in the springtime and the white blos- som comes forth in all its g the one perfect symbol of resurrected life. So these are the symbols of each representing a different tr perhaps, but all emblematic of essen- tially the same thing, an awakening after a sleep, life after death—Resur- rection! There is no death, who says there is istakes for de springs: story f eve y on As with the trees, the flowe and bulbs, So is it with the soul. re’'s scr A period of sleep, of As Calvary's blackes And then the Resurrection’s su rine sponge bed. They mature in two years, The best sponges—those large, blond, fine fellows, called bath sponges—come from Florida. It takes them ten years to grow to bath size. Letter Postage 1 The act of March 3, 1863, fixed the standard maximum weight for the single rate of letter postage at one- half ounce avoirdupois, and the rate eament and df »pped into the subma- of postage on domestic letters not ex- Easter | were the first fleshly nourishment aft- i well as Easter egT | admire and then! when all nature is putting on new rai- | It is also carrying out the old | ter, is a combination of the religious | The man who 1s always telling you how much he does for others needs watching. How to Handle a Cook Mrs, Stone—You have a splendld cook. The food was delicious. Mrs. Rock—She's the cook youn dis- charged last week. I told her you were coming, Beg Your Pardon Harry—Is Mr. Bale in his room? Clerk—Sorry, but there's nobody home on the top floor. 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