Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-24


 ing of bird songs, of the breaking of 1ce-bound waters, of the passing of winter, and of the return of the sun bringing with it seedtme, and the birth of new hopes and desires, sym bolized in the celebration of Easter. And everywhere the egg, symbolic of the universe and of life, of the epringing forth from the germ of new forces and powers, has been in evi dence
 The Egyptians, the Jews, the Per Fians and Hindus, the Syrians, the Burmese, the Chinese, the Australians, the Hawaiians-all have connected the egg with the creation or renewal of life
 aM The fire worshippers of Persia, wor &ehlpping Zoroaster as prophet, be- S ieved in a first great spirit from whom came two brothers, Ormuzd and Ahriman. Ahriman, showing jealousy bf his brother, Ormuzd was condemn ed to darkness for thousands of years. fingered, he longed for revenge, and when OrmuZd made an egg contain ng good genii Ahriman made another full of evil spirits, and broke the two together, so that from the beginning kood and evil were mixed. In mem bry of this legend of creation, the Persians at the festival of the solar pew yeari held in March, exchanged Eolored eegs as gifts,
 The Chinese have story that the hrst man, Poo Roo Wong, came from ln egg, and that having been born he < hsed the upper part of the shell to $ hake the heavens, while the lower { bart became the earth
 The Burmese tell that the first man md woman, their Adam and Eve, were matched from single egg.
 The Syrians say that their gods $ rom whom they were descended were atched from eggs.
 The Australians believe the earth Pas darkened space until one of their ace threw up an egg, which exploded md became the sun.
 Hawaii, the islanders declare, was treat egg which some mammoth bird ropped as it passed over the seas.
 The Egyptians regarded the egg as sacred emblem of the renovation of pankind after the flood. and the Jews sed it as type of their departure rom the land of, the Egyptians, and Iith the Paschal lamb it was a part { the Passover feast.
 The early Christians were, of purse, Jewish, and when they began obsert Easter as Christian feast ave to the egg as part of the cere- nonial of the season new signlfi- ance, that of the resurrection from the cad. Eggs were forbidden during Lent, and so naturally accumulated, (s the hens did not stop laying. Eat pg them on Easter day signified that Rsting time was over and feasting begun, so they were connected with by just as were the bells which, hush. "a during the period preceding Easter lay. broke into joyous pealing at it's avn.
 The name for Easter in the romance anguages-paques in French, pasqua Italian, and pascua in Spanish omes through the Latin pascha, from be Chaldean form of the Hebrew ! anne for the Passover festival. Hence ne eggs are pace. pashe, paschal, or asque eggs, as well as Easter eggs.
 When the early Christians began to bserve Easter as Christian festival
 controversy as to the time of its observance, known as the Paschal 0ntrnVarcu econd to the fourth centuries, arose. he Eastern churches kept it at the me time as the Jewish Passover, pe 14kh day of the Jewish lunar onthtof Nissan, which most often Pfresponds to our month of Ap.i;;.