The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-02-22

follow up with long faces, fasting anc
. prayer, during the forty days OF Lent
!, Mardi Gras closes and eliminates TIE fes
tiVities OF the carnival period
IN VENICE,
where they hold a"high carnival" feasts
balls, operas, concerts, ma>queradea, etc,
abound for days, and this City of the
Doges, Is able to boast, that at one time,
seven soyereigns and thirty thousand for
eigners joined in the wild revelry of It's
citizens. The city of
NEW ORLEANS
bids fair to become the Venice Of Amer
lea IN respect to the attention paid by its
citizens 70 Shrovetide festivities, and the
attention attracted thereto from the PEG
pie OF the entire community. The vari.
Gus railway and other transit companies
reduce their fare to New Orleans, and
even from Chicago over one hundred, it
is said, will make this mid-winter trip of
many hundred miles to become mere
COOKERS on" in this
MODERN VENICE"
Doubtless, through the telegraph and
selections from New Orleans news.
papers our readers will be satisfied
Il not surfeited, with the MIMI
tiae Of this New Orleans affair. We pro-
pose to develop different line Of the
same subject, and throw little of the
hight OF history on the old English Gus
toms, which connect themselves with
sHRovE TUESDAY.
One of the main distinctions of Shrove
Tuesday in early English history was the
eating of pancakes made with eggs and
spice. Shakespeare puts into the mouth
OF the clown in 'Alls Well that Ends
Well'-"As fit as Tbs rush for Tbs |
ioretinger, as pGncake TOR Sbr0Oc Tues
day, Morris for May day." ETC. Macau.
ley, in his history on Clay6rook, says
ION .Shrove Tuesday bell rings at uoon,
which is meant for signal for the leo
pie to begin frying their pancakes"
An
OLD POEM
sets forth the extent of the Shrove Tues
day festivities:
Now when at length the pleasant time of shrove-
tide comes In place,
And cruell fasting days at hand approach with
sOlemne grace
Then 0lde and yong are both as mad as chester of
And foure dayss long they tipple square, and
feede and never rest.
In every house are showtes and cryes and mirth
and revell route,
And daintic tables spred and all beset with
ghestes about; ....... m. III III
With suudrie playes and Christmasse games
and feare and shame away,
The tongue is set at Hbertie and hath no kinde of
stay.
Some sorts there are that rune with slaves. or
fghtin armour fine,
Or shew the people foolish toyes for some small
piece OF wine.
But soon again the dreadful shane of DEVILS on
them take,
And chase such as they meete, and smake
poore boys for feare to quake
Some, like wild beastes doe runne abroade in
sk1nnes that divers bee
Arrayde and exc with loothsome shapes that
dreadful are to see; %,
Some others make man all stuff wi III straw or
ragges within,
Apparayled in dublet faire, and horses passing
trim,
Whom as man who that lately died of honest
life and fame,
In blanket hid they bearo about and straight
wages with the same
They hurl him m, up into the ayre. not suffering
him to fall, ...L .....
And this they do at divers tymes, the cite over
A favorite amusement for our ancestors
on this day was
"THROWING AT COCKS"
The poor chanticleer was tied to
sprig by short string, and men threw
sticks at 1t in succession until death
terminated its sufferings
Cock fights also were common and
much enjoyed, the masters of schools
when the pupils, INDUCED ,condescendiug
to receive the dead fowl as perquisite
Dorsetshire boys go round begging for
pancakes singing
II be come shrovin a
For little panklak,
A bit O. bread O your biakin
Or little truckle cheese O your maxim.
If you gil me little Til ak no more,
If you don't gil me nothin' I'll rattle your
door,"
In Cumberland the school boys bar out
the master at Shrove tide for three days, |
defending the barricaded school room
like a bcsieged city, s......
With such mummeries and rabble rout |
did our forefathers prepare for the melan |
choly HASTINGS and notifications of the
flesh which accompany Lent. The word |
Carnival means farewell to fesh," and
jolly good time these ancionts made of |
shaking it off. They wrestled it with
lingering
.,... .. LOVING GRASP,
Whether q solution of these wild revels
as preliminary to pious meditations, is
found in the supposition that they were
in order to acquire by surfeit, disgust of
earthly "wanities," we leave for philoso
pliers to decide. Perhaps we may wait
for an answer till the return Of our Chi
cagoese, if they escape the wild liberties
which Mardi Gras Will permit to be taken
with their persons or purses.
They have ways that are peculiar down
in New jersey There Is State law
there which prohibits the adjournment of