Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-19

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m-ufi. nei by grave ~riters of odd days.
In Scotland the first of April fun is
called hunting the gowk, and consists
NEST often Of sending pers n To another
long way of, with a note which says,
Hunt the COAX another mile" The re-
cipi-nt Of the note gives him n new mis-
sive Ia still another, containing the same
words; and So the sport goes on, till the
victim remembers the day Of the month,
and sits down to rest and think about it.
In France, where the custom 10 very
ancient, the jokes are much the same
hut the victim is called an april fish, ="
because he is easily caught. In one part
Of France there is a custom Of eating q
certain kind Of peas which grow there,
called pois chiches. The joke there Is to
send the pea.auts to certain convent to
ask for those peas. telling them that the
fathers are obliged to give some tn every
one that comes on that day. The joke is
rs much on the monks a. on the peasants,
for there'is often perfect rush Of appli-
cants all day.
A more disagreeable custom prevails in
Lisbon on the first of April, when the
great object il to pour water on the pass
ers.by, or, failing in that, to throw pow
der in their faces. If both can be done,
the joker is happy.
I need not tell you the American styles
Of joking: mailing piece of silver to the
sidewalk; tying a string t. y purse, and
jerking it away from greedy fingers; leav-
ing tempting-looking packages, filled
with s&nd,o door-steps; frying doughnuts
with an interlining of wool; putting salt
in the sugnr-bowl, etc. You know to"
many already.
But this custom, With others, common
in coarser and rougher times, is fast lying
out. Even now it is left almost entirely
to playful children and the uneducated
classes. This sentiment, quoted from an
English almanac of u hundred years ago,
will, I'm sure, meet the approval OF
''grown.ups" Of the nineteenth century
"But tits a thing to be disputed,
Which Ia the greatest fool reputed,
The one that innOcently went,
Or he that hun designedly sent"