The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-04-09
Home Circle Column.
4 olumn Dedicated To Tired
Mothers as They Join The
Home ircIe.

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Beautiful Eas;eriide. Had not that !
roman seal been broken. and the
,owers OF darkness thwartedl
here would have been no light at !
Caster tide. But the son of right
,cusness has risen with healing in
Us wings and now his glory is the
light Of Easter day.
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A German Easter Gus ON is to light
fires on the hillside of the Hartz, oh
tainilg the holy water from The
sire hs at midnight, when the good
spirl moves the waters, and the pre-
sent Zion of cakes, shaped in the
form of the rising sun are made spe-.
cial features OF the occasion.
Idhas often been asked why an egg
is be symbol OF Easter. The use
of ggs for Eas er can be traced to
the theology and philosophy of Egyp-
tiaf, Persians. Gauls, Greeks and
Kobans, among all of whom an egg
wal a symbol Of the universe, the
w& of the Supreme Divinity. The
Pebians gave presents of eggs at
thI feast of the vernal equinox-in
hdor Of the renewal of all things.
tn Jews adopted Il TO meet the CIR
cthstances of their history as a type
oftheir departure from EGYPT, and It
wb used in the feast of the passover
oi part of the furnishing of the
idle with the Paschal lamb. The Ca,'
III Druids also used the eggs in iheiil
ciemonies,
In Switzerland peculiar game IL
hyed at Easter. Large baskets filled
nth bran are placed in circle
tmewhere on a free field or public
ace. Then as many rows of 100
kgs as there are comped ,ors are
lid, each egg foot or so apart from
he next. the rows radiating from
he baskets to an equal distance. The
hsk is TO put the 100 eggs, one by
Ine into the basket without break
hg any, and who does IL in the thort.
st space OF time is the winner,
The Easter festival of our ;orefath-
eers covered period of Is days. The
week beginning with Easter Sunday
WAS most entirely given over VI
sport and games and general merry
tlaking. An odd feature of the old
time celbration was that of having
Ior lifting the ''heayed' sitting in Q
chair decorated with white ribbons
Easter Monday and Easter Thursday
we're known as heaving days, the wo
men sitting in a chair ON Monday ant
the men on Tuesday. Those heavins
or lifting the chair were expected Il
lift 1t three times and then kiss thu
occupant, who in turn, kissed them
To the regret OF the lads and lassie'
in the districts where the novel cere
mony was once performed, the custom
has long since died out.
Easter was not kept as festiva
until tn fifth or sixth cntury, blu
previous to that the question of Cs
tablishing II as a feast day came be
fore the council of Nice, when II wa
decided authoritatively that Easte
was henceforth 10 be the Sunday fol
\ lowing the 14th day of the calenda
, moon which happened to be upon Q
next after the 2lst of March 80 tina
II this 18th day be a Sunday caste
was not TO be on that date but o
the next following Sunday. Easte
day, therefore, may be on any da
wi, hin five weeks TO- arc
% or April %, ,. cannot happen
earlier or later than these two date
In 1888, Easter occurred on Marc
%, and again in 1894. which will
twice in the present century. In l9i
it will occur again on March %.
There are many supersiitions col
/. nected with Easter Sunday which g
! significant of the season, and are a
most as imperative as laws. One
these is the necessity of having som
thing new to wear on this day in 0
der to insure happiness for the ton
ing year. Hence the Easter bonnie
Another one is that on thai day Il
+ sun dances. This is an old legen
3 6nd the lines from Sir John SuckliI
: are well known:
But oh, she dances such way
: No sun upon an Easter day
Is half so fair a sight"