Telegram-herald., 1889-04-21

dress II H9El 0l Faster. nl .foftuno
slii be sure 60 follow throughout the
year as stated iy the following eouqiet
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An Old Engilsl name Tor EAstcr vas
''G0d SUNDAY" IL IWckeuham,
England lt was long customary 10 tl-
vide TAO large cake, among che Young
people lu the parish church, uut n
loi3 { vas q directed - act oI Iarla-
nlent that theueelornaro there should
hs bought. In leu oi lhe cakes loaFes
az bread tol the parish poor. and for
many years lt wa, customary 10 throw
THESE loayes from the church tower, -
pe scrambled fog by tae poor children
on the Thursday following Easter.
Among Toe pfa,antry OI SPAN II :
the custom % choose an Easter King,
aud a good story IS told of Charles Y,
that during one 81 has journeys he en-
cogntefet ONE OF these royal person
ages with tn crown upon has head
and a spit ID hs hand for a sceptre.
Wholly lgnorant of the real King rank,
the peasant ordered hum rather rough
Isl. o. take oh his nat 20 the King OF
tne Easter
Your Majesty" said the Prince, un-
covering with profound obeisance,
'lf you hnd royalty AZ troublesome as
] do. you VIII soon be glad 70 ab.ll-
cate.
10 = an old superstition that abstain
ance from meat on Easter sunday VIII
prevent the ceontldOtouOi ateVcr during
t1etnuscyear. li certain parts OF Eng
.ant the first dl-h that Is brought L. the
I3olc Or tuat day lsarcd herring, which
has btentasnloued py thccOOk after the
likeness Ot man riding on horse
uack, ana piece OF bacon Is then eaten
20 show adherence Of Judaism. Ia
primitive times II WAS customary Tor
Christians 10 salute each other on Easter
morning byexclamng. "thristi,ri,en,
whereupon the person Salutcd wOTiI
respond with Christ * risen. indeed. -
or else, And hath appeared unto
SIMON"
In Warwickshre, Lancashire and
some other counties of England. an old
custom called '.llftlng' OF 'heaving' IS
Observed. The men lift or heave the
women on Easter Monday, and the
women do likewise % the men on the
following day. This lifting or hcaving
Is performed by two men or two women
claSpng each others wrists in such 4
way as 20 form, with the backs of their
hands. seat, upon which the person
10 be heavcd sits down. He or she Is
then raised and lowered several times,
and often carried a considerable dis
tancc This was intended To be symbolic
nj of the SaviOr's rising from the grave.
AprOpOs OF tins custom capital ancc-
dotc IS told of the late Dean Stanley.
few years before his death Ee was
obliged To remain for an hour or two
at the inn of q Lancashire town on
Easter Tuesday. and hls amazcment can
scarcely zoe imagined when three or four
buxom women entered his apartment
and announced that they had come to
lift HIM.
"To lift me-" exclaimed the good
man, what dO YOU mcan?'
why, your Grace, we've come to
lift yOu, because II Is Easter Tuesday.
The men lifted all Us women ycster-
day, and today we lit the men,
II was some time before the great
churchman could be made 10 fully un-
dcrstand the nature of the custom, and
then he gladly bought the right to lift
him" from his fair visitors 10y paying
them half crown apiece.
The oldest, most familiar and most
universal of all Easter customs are those
associated with eggs. Hundreds of
years before Christ, eggs held an nm
pOrtant place IN the theology and phi
losophy OF the Egyptians, PersianS,
Gauls, Greeks and Romans. among all
OF whom an egg was the emblem OF the
universe. and the art of cOlOrlng was
profoundly studied. The sight OF street
boys striking their rival eggs together
To see which Is the stronger and shall
WIN the other was a common IN the
streets OF Rome and Athens two
thousand years ago, II we are to be-
Heve autlquauanS, az lt Is IN any of our
American cities today. These eggs,
now called Easter eggs. were originally
known as Pasche eggs. corrupted TO
paste eggs. because connected with the
Paschal or Passover feast. one reason
for assOciatng an egg with the day on
which our SAVIOR arose from the dead
may bc that the Ettlc chick. entombcd.
SO to speak. in the egg. rising from il
into life. was regarded As typical of an
ascension from the grave.
I'm the north of England il is
customary 20 exchange Ircsclfs
OF Easter eggs among the chill
dren of families who are on in-
innate terms. custom which also pro
vaiet largely among the ancicnts. and
go which the sending ot ElSter cards
and other otfcriug-. which has become
so popular here of late wears. may he
traced. The extent 10 which the latter
practice has increased r tins country
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