Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-16
THE FESTIVAL OF J NUS.


Aml1T the lFulIAN7 tN' N'ltA va hA'
raw wear was a1s Tie president ci .
doors, gates and all now enterprises
Commonly represented with two faces [
Il. was supposed to look both into th, I
mat anl into the future. 10 was tho /
father oil the new year, and on hia statue I
vss inscribed the famous enigma /
nrtero &c ono father, who has twelve I
,s14 elch Of these ha. ixty daughters
Of whom thirty are white aud thirty
Hgrs. all are Immortal and yet aIl must
die" 10 Rome March I. formerly th
rp.ning day OF the year. was igrali2cl
by aacridcva; white steers were offered
tb1t the wear might be fortunate
f5r the state. tho c0lsuls made Ohlaton
and lihatinns. ut tine same time Hssum
Jp, the duties Of their Offices; Offering
w,r. presented at the shrine Of Juno.
and friends made each other gifts ni
Gr.t Of republican simplicity, such ~
baskets Of dates or figs, pots Of honey n
clusters Of grapes, but with increasing
wealth the gifts became moro and NOR
costly. until complaints were made that
rouue men were sometimes heggarcd by
tbe necessity of satisfying the demand
of their female acquaintance.
The custom Of celebrating the new
wear In some especial way probably hat
isong.n In the cradleo the human race
Tho Hiudoo religion being among tho
Oldest forms Of established worship, 1t Il
smcwhat remarkable TO find among III,
psoplc OF India the same reverence at
.iirlel 10 tho day us exists among on
s.l,ol. Al stores and offices arc CLOSED
and tho day indeed most " the month
-s,iycu mp to religious Observance.
anil social festivities.
Bands OF singers, from two 90 six II
number, make the rounds OF the house,
In tasr districts and nrn received with
consideration, invariably obtaining aims
large or small. for on this day to rcfus,
t1giyc is accounted sin. They do moi
ak Tor charity az on other days, for II b.
taxa Tor granted that on this "day 81
diy.' the hearts and purse strings u al
vii. b, open. so everybody gives. but
whather 10 crafty charitable impulse
or 90 get rid u the noise Is a conundrum
AH' htt't HNtiN' ~ hNt hhP'1Nt"i's ~
The music of tho wandering bands ol
lH;sors consists OF drums, rattl,i and
small cymhals, these Instruments being
accompanied by onr splitting scrcerhes,
which In nny other country would en-
title the singer TO immediate incarcert
tIpu. But the Hinloo ear can stand .
good deal OF noise, and ns tho words OF
the hymn sung by the mendicanis are
purely devotional, every Hindop lays zap
for himself treasure IA heaven by open
Ing hts pockeiOook
blt the Observance OF the dny does not
be1n and enl witA hlmsEIvins. TIE
IDOL, arc 10 D. washed pitchers ana othei
vessels and IooH are TO Dc offered az th'
sacr,4 shnne'i every i'i'iiF must ieed n'
iea,t Nle bgAlin'n' ana every woman
lnNl.' lo het mouse nv I."sl one !. te'nal
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