The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-03-26
EASTER THE GREAT CHRISTIAN 81,
festival CELEBRATED TOMORROW

Paschal Feast In the sixth Of the
Ancyran eanoBs, however, It N called
the Great Day
As for the siyniolOgy Of the ERglis.
Easter, IL Is sought In E~ostre--ths name
Of a saxon nature deity, whose feast
was celebrated in the spring with bon
ores and rejoicing As every one
knows, Easter " a movable feast,
changing according 10 the moon that
comes after the yernal equinox, or
March 81. II the full o chances
TO come on a sunday, Easter il held
on the following sunday. one object
Ia arranging the calendar moon with
regard to Easter was that the latter
might never fall on the same day -
the Jewish Passover. They Iel 20
gether, however, in 1905, on April la
IA 1895, on April 3, aud IN 1908, on
April ~.
In certain localities special cskes
/ baked and distributed al this time
This custom prevailed not only in al
tiquity but survive down TO modern
! times notably i Engiano The Pass.
over bread also belongs 90 this series
the day was marked with a great foot
ball game. other am were played,
and even women played team games.
Everywhere Il was y festival Of JOY.
In the east IL ~ known as the Bright
J Day." Dances and fRreial exhibitions
we're held and even the clergy in the
pulpit told funny stories, stirring theii
n~enrers to laughter lrisus p~aschalis)
THIS was put a stop TO by the reform
ers III the sixteenth century
. = =
The Red Badge OF shame.
Mercy and justice axe some weirC
forms a. time flows on, always rep
etition. Some party down IN DALAI
has sprung fOr the milltonth time u
the worlds history the idea of making
a certain class of women wear a dis
tinguishing badge, hrs idea as advanc
cd in the religious press, being TO hav'
them wear nothing but red, and som
people who have only the skim mil
Of human hndDess are falling in wit.
! The idea. Not that there IN any like
lihood Of its beng put into effect 4
Texas. The Lone Star state has II
faults, but they are less than those o
any other part OF the Union, and DIS
elimination against the unfortunate
: not one OF them. IL II well that II
" 20, for u there is any class IN human
4 ity's multitude TO whom the heart y
the truly sympathetic should 20 on
2 IL II 70 the women OF this class, {
whom all doors are closed, and n
- world u unit OF . .arisecs. OF cour,
our reverend friend does not apprec
: ate that. tie advances his theory wit
much he same understanding as "a
G worker advocates temperance who ne
cr had 10 use q monkey wrench 20 y,
his hat on. All he knows aDout u
d what be reads. ana tue real huma
! part, the broken hearts, the dcsolat,
homes and the everlasting regret, meal
10 really nothing 10 him. No man wi
e has ever been up against the rouI
corners Of the world, who has not se'
how thin IL the veneer o. ctNIlisatio
Ie would ever advocate such q msasuI
or fail 10 see the sublime lesson
{, Jesus, wherein he said, 90, and >
st no more! am . pretty hard bat
,t orthodoxy goes, but II seems 20 q
.r hat the attitude OF the savior 10 II
4. case was a lesson which the wor
Do ought never 70 forget. IL ~ q who
ID sermon IN itself, albeit one that nigh
few preachers have the nerve TO d
course upon, although there IL plen
e OF material for ,neir discourse in eve
he country on eartn, and every city inhs
he tied by man. They call It the soc
ne evil for want Of a better name, q
ne the name in good enough. and answ,
{. Ne we'll as anything else for the ma
AZ Hesitation OF the beas, element that I
e. thousand centuries have not been Al
co TO eface from the Dreast Of the sterI
ia sex, which il also tho effectlng sex NJ
or himself 10 the cause Of the social o.
e. and IL will continue until that "a
Of when purity Is inside instead OF o
u personal principle instead OF d clou
ne theory that is Interpreted TO suit the
~ diyidual.
as II | remember correctly, u was "a
Gus Of Tyre who hrst conceived q
e. idea OF the red badge OF shame. Il
o. err. Il was a man. You may Ve 81
~ OF that, and TO this day IL 10 n
q. who from time to time sees to q
on the hands OF the unfortunate.
ly is the same spirit which onee &c
or PEELED all people who labored with IN
lis hands to wear a certain garment, 1
in that tho badge Of the only deceI
la that existed Ia those days. Yet
o. disappeared in time, as A.. forms
DO reprosch TO the dignity Of labor hi