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senting faith: the other eggs bearing
the emblems of charity and hope.
An Easter custom brought from Mes
opotamia is that Of egg rolling or egg
pitting. The manner of this sport is to
strike the eggs one against the other.
until one is broken. which is the spoil
of the owner of the egg which re-
NAMED whole. Another egg Is then
pitted against the winning one, and so
on until the last one Is victorious.
Every year at Washington the chill
dren OF all classes OF people meet In the
grounds of the white house. and with
the president and his family looking
on, and great crowds of spectators I'm
attendance, proceed to roll eggs in all
the colors known to humanity and in
such quantities that Ii would seem as
IL the hens of all the world had con-
tributed. IL is one Of the sights of
Washington on Easter Monday. In
this country eggs of all colors are used
for the rolling sport. but in Mesopota-
mia they are red only, In emembrance
OF the crucifixion.
In France IL was once customary at
the approach of Easter to seek the
largest eggs as tribute to the king, ard
when the Easter high mass was fin
ished in the chapel of h Louvre. to
take them into the royal presence.
handsomely gilded and carried in pyra-
mids. Then the chaplain blessed them,
after which they were distributed TO
the people.
In Scotland. where the great festivals
lave for centuries been suppressed, the
young people still get their ha,d-boiled
dyed eggs. which they roll about or
throw. and finally eat. In Lancashire
and Cheshire, Staffordshire and War
wickshire. and perhaps in other coun-
ties. the ridiculous custom of lifting"
or ''heaving' is practiced. On Easter
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on Easter Tuesday the women lift or
heave the men. The process is per-
formed by two lusty men or women
joining their hands across each others
wrists; then, making the person to be
heaved sit down on their arms. they
lift him up aloft two or three times.
ana often carry him several yards
along a street.
a grave clergyman who happened TO
be passing through a town in Lanca-
shire on an Easter Tuesday, and having
to stay an hour or so at an inn, was
astonished by three or four lusty wo-
men rushing into his room, exclaiming
they had come to lift him.
ITO lift me-" repeated the divine.
what can you mean
why, your reverence. we've come to
lift you cause it's Easter Tuesday"
Lift me because it's Easter Tues
day? I don't understand. Is there any
such custom here?"
Yes. to be sure; why, don't you
know? All us women were lifted yes
terday: and us lifts the men to-day in
turn. And i'm course it's our right and
duties TO lift 'em."
After a little further parley the rev.
erend traveller compromised with his
fair visitors for half a crown. and thus
escaped the dreaded compliment.
In some remote districts of Franc Il
is still customary for the priest of the
parish to GO round to each house at
Easter and bestow on IL his blessing.
In return he receives Eggs, both plain
and painted. In these same regions a
belief still fingers that during passion
week the bells OF the churches set out
for Rome in order to get themselves
blessed by the pope. During this period
of mourning the bells are sad and mute
i'm their belfry. and the peasants firmly
believe tina they have started or their
pious pilgrimage. and will return to
send forth a joyous peal on the morn
ing of the resurrection.
But to get back to our 'ain countrie,"
what is the significance of Easter here?
simply new clothes and bonnets? All,
no. True, most OF Americas young
women are gaily bedecked on Easter
day. as of right they ought to be, but.
true again. they are not of the frivol-
Gus sort. Hank 10 the peals of the or
gan i'm the innumerable churches OF
every denomination! Peer through the
cathedral panes at the heads bowed in
prayer List TO the happy blending of
voices from hundreds of choir lofts:
Glor he to God on high
God. whose glory fills the sky:
Peace on earth to man forgiven,
Man, the well-beloved OF heaven"
That Is Americas Easter.
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