The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-26

Tomorrow is Easter VIII IL be a
day of sunshine and brightness. maxi
ing glad many hearts, or. Is it to be a
day of cloud and wind? These are the
all absorbing questions. Even those
not intending to appear in new gown
and head dress tomorrow have enjoy
ed the viewing of the pretty hats this
week. The millinery openings have
been held and such display of really
lovely hats has not been seen for years
and they attracted unlimited attention.
The show windows of all the stores
are gay with bright and gorgeous col
ors. The counters of dry goods houses
are piled high with soft silks and pref
ty ginghams; and gloves and silk
stockings and new handkerchiefs and
everything that the heart could wish
are beginning to be tumbled in prodi-
gal profusion on counters. Even the
early Easter has been no decided draw
back to the preparations and purchases
of spring attire.
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There promises to be many trav-
elers from this state and from Fargo
who will cross the pond this summer
and no doubt there will not one of
them will miss seeing the production
of the Passion Play at Oberammer-
gau. In addition to the representation
of families of wealth there will be
scores and scores of students, teach
ers and young people who have been
saving every penny for months that
they might be among those to see THE
Passion Play"
There are two regulations which
y will be observed most strictly at the
4 performance Of The Passion Play in
/ Oberammergau this season, and to
which all travellers must submit-wom-
en- are requested to wear no hats, and
| the audience is also requested to re-
I frain from any applause whatever al
the conclusion of the acts.
: The Obermmergau passion players
have rehearsed since last December
and will continue to do so every day
| until May The whole play is not
rehearsed at once but in sections. and
as there are to be 700 men, women
and children in the play, an idea may
be had OF the enormity of the under
taking.
Every performer must have been
born in Oberammergau, and no peas
ant from any other village Is per-
mitted to participate. Every cos
tune that is worn must have been
made in Oberammergau, and twenty
women and girls have been sewing
daily since December to complete the
costumes; every costume is true as
copy of the real thing. The materials
are not cheap fabrics, for stuffs are
used that cost from twelve to fifteen
marks the meter. and the material for
the costume of Pontius PLATE, which
was purchased in onstantinople, cost
200 marks a meter.
Each performer has to have three
indentical costumes, because these per-
formances take place in the open ali
and II Is nothing unusual for perform
ers and audiences 20 De drenched by
a sudden thunderstorm. The play
continues under all weather condi-
tions, with the exception Of only once
in 1900, when a hailstorm made sc
much OF a racket that 1t was impos-
sible to hear, and then the perform
ance was stopped for fifteen minutes
All know the piety and devotion Of
the Catholic in that part of the world
and particularly the mountaineers
cling to their vows, realize that the
promise made in 1888 will not be brok.
en- just because the tread of time makes
the keeping of ii little harder every
ten years. On the contrary t is APP
TO add zest to the devout sentiment Of