The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08

ing IN the consistory, within the vatican
palace. Only favored few are present.
Full dress is required for the men, and a
Spanish mantilla thrown over the dress
for the women.
| In many of the Spanish American coun-
! tries full-sized wax figures of Christ, the
! Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene are
borne in a procession by priests and are
| made to perform a sort of pantomirne
| signifying the discovery Of the resurrec-
ton of the Savior by the two Mays
In the Greek churches Easter is begun
with a midnight mass. The richly-robed
priests and the choir Of men and boys
are scarcely visible in the prevailing
dusk, until, rocket announcing midnight
| the priests and choir, who had left the
| church a Jew minutes before, begin
knocking at the door, and as soon as it
I is opened hurry in shouting Christ is
risen! Christ is risen!" Each bears q
hghted taper, from which every one in
the audience lights his candle until the
church is ablaze with thousands Of
| lights.
Most American children think the color
| ed gges one of the most important feat
ures of Easter celebration, but they do
not know SO much about the hare that
lays them as their German cousins. The
white hare is the delightful animal that
provides the beautiful blue, red, pink.
purple and spotted eggs for good chill
dren. according to the nursery doctrines
Students have traced the introduction of
the hare into Easter traditions from the
fact that this Is, in sense lunar
holiday, and the hare was in ancient
times q symbol for the moon. Also the
hare being born with It's eyes open was
| associated with the opening of the new
year at Easter.
In many parts of England hare hunting
was originally an important part Of the
Easter sports. One of the most famous
customs is the Halaton hare scramble
and bottle kicking on Easter Monday. At
some remote time piece of land was be-
| queathed to the rector on condition that
he should provide annually two hare pies.
quantity OF ale and two dozen penny
loaves to be scrambled for on each sue
ceeding Easter Monday at the ground
called Hare-Pie Bank, about quarter OF
mile from the village. One rector tried
to divert the fund to a better purpose,
but he was warned, mo pie, no parson
and job for the glazier," and gave in to
the traditional observance. This Is the
great carnival of the year for Hallaton
The two benevolent societies hold ceIe-
brations. After the club sermon and lin
ner at the inns a deputation is sent to
the rectory for the pies and beer.
Two men carry the pie, cut up, in sacks
Three men carry, each. bottle, two
being filled with beer and one being
dummy At Hare-Pie Bank one of the
bottles, which is hoped with iron, is then
used as football, the men from a neigh
boring village trying to kick it to their
goal and the Hallatonians to theirs. The
winner gets the beer But the greatest
struggle Is for the dummy, which the
Hallaton people assert they have never
lost.
Easter Monday and Tuesday are holi-
days in England and ireland, and on the
continent are given over largely to sports
and outdoor pastimes, although some of
the most picturesque have been abandon
ed. such as the young men selling the
young women's shoes on Monday and the
girls retaliating by taking the mems hats
the next day, and that good old custom of
wives beating their husbands one day and
the husbands returning the compliment
the next.
On Easter Tuesday the boys of chrisf'a