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linen from farm-factories. bleaching.
Herds sound deep-toned bells. Girls in
gay colors and short skirts rake hay for
men to pack in canvas bales. A donkey
brays in the sleepy sunlight A silent
forest guard passes and salutes. Here
comes a great tree trunk on wheels. Then.
again, into the cool darkness Of the pines.
Up, up and down again-and a blue lake
in purple mountain tops shows the white
pleasure town of Gerardmer.
1t is a family paradise. where ladies'
bargain in a vast opcn-air bazaar over
marvels of embroidery, lace and drawn
threads-filmy luxuries Of mountain hand
work. l have seen Americans stock up
at prices that made them look ashamed
to rob poor peasants. They did wrong
to worry.
At Gerardmer there are no waters to
drink, no douches or massage to strain
you. Both sexes swim in a crystal lake.
from fine lighthouses. and you do see
charming costumes. Great hotels are
nearly always full-the French swarm
here Best write in advance. Dressing
Is not made much Of. 4 lady with one
simple dinner gown can hold her head
up. At night all who are not too tired
60 to the theater or chat beneath the
stars.
OF afternoons they play some few little
horses ct the Casino and go Ia the serv.
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visit seven or more churches-there must
be seven at the lowest-and pray. All
the churches are decorated, and there is
considerable rivalry as to which has the
most gorgeous altar. On the afternoon OF
Good Friday there is service called ia
siete palabras.' or the seven words. re-
ferring to the seven words OF Christ on
the cross. All women attending this
service are dressed either in mourning or
In somber colors. In the evening, attired
in the same manner, they attend serv-
ice called 'pesame.' q service OF condo
lence and mourning
ION Saturday morning the Gloria serv-
ice is held. after which comes the hang
ing Of the effigies of Judas. In the after
noon the people attend the theaters or
a bull fight II the weather is not too
warm for the latter. On Easter day
proper the celebration is almost entirely
a religious One.'
According to the Baroness de Bode.
sister Of Col. Baron de Bode. military
attachc of the Russian embassy, Easter
is the holiday of holidays in her coun-
try.
This is partly due to the fact that
Easter is the first celebration of the
spring season." said the baroness, land
the warm weather naturally draws peo-
pie to the out-of-doors.
"On Easter eve In Russia there 10
church service held. which begins few
minutes before midnight and continues
for half an hour. In the country, even
among the peasants, where the customs
are more strictly followed, the people
wear their best and highest clothes.
After this service comes the Easter
kiss. Friends kiss three times, first on
one cheek, then on the other. and the
last time on the other cheek again. This
represents the joy they feel on account
of the Savior's resurrection. The Gus
tom is sometimes continued for several
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beautifully with the new printing press
OF the canons.
II you muse in these old closters. with
a bit of history or tradition, you will see
vision of the old-time rising up In the
far shadows. The actual printing Office
was installed in building whose remains
now front on the square called after
Jules Ferry. but all the writing, proof
correcting. translation. planning and dis
cussion took place in the Gothic halls
connected with these cloisters.
See, one day. arrive with benevolent
fracas, their dread lord and generous
protector. Rene ii, Duke Of Lorraine, sur
rounded by his courtiers and medicine
men! What ordered ceremonies, rever-
ences of poor scholars, feal bowings of
proud canons. gracious magnanimity of
the reigning highness, I'VE are all
brothers. here. in learning"
Patron of arts and sciences, the duke
had just received from Italy q MSS book
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light their altar candles, and, in fact,
there have been instances of their having
been carried all the way back to Russia
by pilgrims, for have they not been light
ed from the holy fire sent down from
heaven! On Palm Sunday vast service
is held in the church, at the conclusion
of which the worshipers stream forth
shouting 'Hosanna!' and waving their
palm branches.
Easter in Germany Is a solemn but
happy occasion. Elaborate choral serv-
ices are rendered in the churches and in
the homes as we'll Indeed, the singing
Of the Easter carols is matter OF grave
concern. for they have been rehearsal
for weeks before.
1T is a children's day." said the Coun-
tess Won Bernstorff, wife Of the ambas-
sador from Germany. land in families
usually given for them. If Easter falls
during warm weather the eggs are col
ored and hidden for the children out of
doors. or, il the weather is too cold for
made in Nuremberg. and inside Of these
come all manner Of toys for children.
Among families Easter is generally a
day Of reunion, and while there is no
ers together. Sometimes friends send
floral greetings in the shape Of Easter
eggs entirely Of natural flowers. While
this is the custom in the greater part
Of Germany, there is solemn ceremo-
NAL performed in Bavaria, when the
prince regent, who is a Catholic. washes
the feet Of twelve old men on Good Fri
day"
So
"The observance OF Easter in Costa
RIGA is entirely a religious one" said
Mile Maria Calvo, daughter of the min
lister from Costa Rica, land there are
few customs Of interest outside of those
connected with the church. On Palm
Sunday morning, when the celebration
begins. there is a procession formed OF
the dignitaries and congregation OF the
church. Along the line OF their march
the way has been strewn with palms.
Small floats are carried and figure of
Christ. The floats show angels. and the
prettiest children to be found are always
seen in the procession: they are always
beautifully dressed, their silk robes and
shimmery wings and crowns forming an
attractive picture. The procession ends
in front of the church. where hymns are
sung.
ION Good Friday there is another pro-
cession. This time, however, there are
no children in it. The entire spectacle is
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the embassies and legations at Washing
ton are representatives Of these lands in
which tire Easter festivities are elaborate
to the extreme. and marked by many
unique customs and ceremonies. At no
time in the year, 1t seems, do they feel
their voluntary exile from their native
lands as keenly as during the Easter
tide. though, be it emphasized. they in no
degree imply dissatisfaction with the
American celebration Of the day of the
Risen Lord. 1t is but natural, however,
for them to look back across the seas
and picture the celebrations now trans
piring in their own lands
To the Baroness Hengelmuller Won Hen
eervar, wife OF the ambassador from
Austria Hungary, Easter brings to mind
q picture OF the quaint and impressive
ceremony. centuries old, that still marks
the observance Of the day in her country.
and especially the scenes of her fathers
castle on his estate in Galicia.
Easter is not observed with as much
ceremony here as in Catholic countries"
said her excellency. Easter in Poland is
. great occasion. All Holy Week we eat
NO meat. Good Friday. dressed in mourn
ing, our women go to church and pray
FOR an hour. The grave of Christ is al
ways represented at the church, and it is
before this that the prayers are said
Saturday. too. Is spent in fasting and
praying.
Easter Sunday the great luncheon or
'Sweceny, as We call it in Polish, takes
place At my fathers castle, I remember.
We always prepared for more than a
hundred guests The table was laden with
cold meats. pig roasted whole. various
kinds of sausages and great cakes or
'baba. which are always eaten at Easter
tide. During the afternoon visitors call.
II Is the custckn for the host and hostess
20 meet their guests at the door with
plate of eggs when each takes a small
piece. and the greeting of the day,
'Haileluiah, is EXCHANGED.
"On the day preceding this luncheon
TIE food has been blessed by the priest
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reigned. father to son. till 1877, when
Duke Francis III traded off Lorraine for
Tuscany, with the then ex-King of Poland,
whose daughter married Louis XIV of
France. Thus Lorraine came to France
something which people do not always re-
member.
BE sure the canons were interested IN
the manuscripts brought by the duke,
and the two learned strangers more SO.
Here is up-to-date geography" exclaim-
cd Hylacomylus "A fourth quarter of
the world to put into our cosmography:
said Matthias Ringmann
Canon Jean Bazin translated 1t into
plain Latin. so that all might read. and
thus the recital Of America Vespucci' 8
voyages was incorporated into the Cos
anographiae Introductio." published at
ST. Die April 25. 1907. going through
three editions at the time and two fac
smile copies in these late days. Re-
Gently the illustrious collector, Rahir,
paid $3.50 for an original In good condi-
ton. The American facsimile sells for
a few dollars, naturally.
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Yet, in June next. the eEes OF all Amer
lea will be fixed on this ancient little
French town. lost at the foot of the I1or-
raine pine mountains. Did not the Chi
cago exposition Of 1892 reserve special
hail to ST. Die?
/ was in an automobile-but not mine
So said TO our French hosts: Stop for
tea al ST. Die; We have a two-hour climb
to follow" They laughed. What is
your real object? Anything particular to
see In 81. Die: Picturesquely situated On
the Meurthe. 1900 inhabitants. half de-
stroyed by fire in 1857, handsomely re-
built by the then duke. extensive timber
trade linen and hosiery factories Name
derived from St Dieudonne, founder of
4 sixth century monastery. which later
became a powerful collegiate establish
ment."
Stop. / said. That's it. ST. Die is
simply the godmother Of America-or.
more elegantly. the baptismal font, ae-
cording to the title OF a book on St. Die
written in 1891 by Frank Mason. now con-
sui general in Paris. No good citizen can
pass through the town without stopping
TO- muse reverently in the Gothic cloisters
where was first pronounced the word
America"
my HOsts IcnlefnOeTeU. Sei Tain
~, France named America. They learned
II all in school. the Vosgian Gymnase,
Ringmann and Americ Vespuce Let's
20 and see il. Their attitude was proto-
typical of that Of the French nation, now
that ii remembers that June 1911, is the
fourth centennial OF Ringmann's DEATH
They are to make grandiose celebration,
with distinguished guests and Fallieres.
In front of the ancient Hotel du Com
merce. beside the statue Of Jules Ferry
who was born here-we had tea under
the awning. with the historic printing
office under our nose without being aware
OF ii. pharmacy now occupies tho
building. which NJ. Charles Peccatte sec
rotary general of the fetes commission,
tells me has been materially changed
since the "Cosmographiae Introductio''
was printed in It.
NJ. Peccatte and Ad. Weick. the learned
librarian, are much concerned over secur-
ing the correct home addresses Of repre-
sentative Americans - Pierpont Morgan,
Andrew Carnegie. Theodore Roosevelt.
ETC. etc.-to invite them to be honored
guests, along with the American ambas-
sador and Henry Vignaud. president Of
the Society OF Americanists, in June, and
il is certain that none OF the least Of the
multitude Of plain tourist Americans will
have cause to appreciate how we CROPPED
our way, that hot July afternoon, TO the
real baptismal font.
We found it, along with other admirable
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with flowers 4 wire is stretched from
the car to the altar in the cathedral. At
the conclusion Of the service a wooden
device known as dove travelling over
fuse Is lighted from the sacred fire on
the altar: It rushes down the wire to
the car filled with combustibles. The ex-
plosion that follows is wonderful pyro-
technic display. The peasants in and
near Florence attach considerable impor-
lance to the explosion Of the car and
the dove down the wire; II everything
transpires without hitch. they con-
slider it an omen of plentiful crops the
rest Of the year.
Astounding in quaint customs and
strange ceremonies, Mexico upholds her
reputation in her unique Easter celebra-
ton. The day is a day Of vengeance
not upon the living. but upon the num-
berless images of Judas Iscariot, the be-
trayer of Christ. All over the country
countless eff1gies Of Judas are made. gen.
orally in peasant clothes. and ropes are
fastened around their necks. Amid the
boots and jeers OF the crowd the images
are swung aloft and hung. AS they
swing to and fro stones and knives are
hurled at them: out In the provinces the
figures are riddled with bullets until they
are literally cut to ribbons. Sometimes
an image is stuffed with CONNECTIONS.
cigarettes and trinkets, strung aloft and
exploded from a fuse running to the
ground. The contents are scattered in
the explosion, OF course. and the grown
UPS as we'll as the children scramble for
the flying gifts.
"The ceremonies really begin with
Thursday evening Of holy week." said
secretary at the Mexican embassy. when
the vista de la siete casas, or the call
ing Of the seven houses or churches. is
held. The populace on this occasion
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one of somberneys as every che is essei
in mourning Then on Easter al dawn We
have the last pro cesSion. AT its head are
two women dressed to represent the two
who discovered that Christ was risen
After them come the priests. \ figure
showing the resurrection of Christ Is
also carried. There are none OF the Gus
toms concerning Easter eggs and rabbits
such as there are here, and Easter Is not
considered day for the children at all"
Good Friday in Spain. especially in Sc
vile. is the day on which the various
guilds and societies and the monks array
themselves in fantastic garb and parade
the streets as ''mummers. They bear
before them huge standards. crosses.
images Of the Virgin Mary and queer
symbolic devices. In other sections OF
the country the parade takes the form
Of a carnival of flowers; queens of the
carnival are chosen, and they are feted
with all the homage usually rendered
real sovereign. Vast sums. secured by
popular subscription, are expended upon
the parades, and the images of the Viz
gin, especially. are CARRIED in robes and
jewels that cost thousands of dollars.
The beautiful service in st. Marks Ca
thedral is by far the chief feature or
the Easter celebration in Venice. Inc
worshipers come to the church in gon-
dolas literally covered with flowers. Inc
entire scene is a riot of colors ana
blooms. In the afternoon every one
bears supply of food To the square in
front of the cathedral and scatters IL
broadcast to the countless fiocks OF
pigeons that fly about the stately edince.
In Cuba an odd ceremony is enacted
each Easter day. A huge waxen figure
of the Christ, showing the gaping WOUNDS.
is borne upon the shoulders of monks
through the open doors of the cathedral.
Followed by a procession OF priests
bearing candles, the figure is carried
down the main street until il meets q
similar figure OF Mary Magdalene, sup.
posed to be Fastening to the tomb OF
Christ after His resurrection. When the
two figures meet. the one symbolic OF
Mary turns and rushes away to third
figure, which represents the Virgin Mary.
These two figures pause while, rs
though communicating the news or the
resurrection. Then they turn and rush TO
the figure of the Christ. bowii'g in adora-
ton as they follow Him batk into the
cathedral amid the huZzas of the pop
ulace and the singing of sacred chants.
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roads the banks are fairly red with
wild strawberries from June on to Sep
TENDER. AS for the pines. though they
seem to number millions. each has its
place in the census, watched, pro-
tected by a shadowy army OF gardes
forestieres. And healthy!
For eight years j have automobiled
all summer over every pass from east
Tyrol. north Italy and the Black For
est, on to Dauphiny. Savoy and the
Pyrenees. Everywhere else the pines
are yielding to the malady," whose
ravages. unless stopped. in ten years
will be terrible.
Only round st. Die are the pines un-
touched-the pines OF the Vosges Blue
Line. They know the cause of the
dread "malady'-whose sign is a
scabby, cobweb- like ruin OF the foliage
but the parasite is SO tenacious that
once it gets foothold on a forest it is
worse than cancer OH a human body.
Gerardmer cut-a remedy by no
means certain. Gerardmer was lucky.
Much Gerardmer and little st. Die?
Yet ST. Die is pretty. in the lap of the
most elegant of mountains. The Meurthe
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seems alive, shivcring and culver
ing-there is one stone sluice OF long
ordered of steps" so boiling in ITS
churn Of spray that il is like small
Niagara.
The great trees by the rivers bank
make pictures full Of fineness against
the blue profile of the mountains. The
houses are low, pierced by monument
tai carriage gates. You walk under
cool arcades of beautiful rose grit
stone that seems to have sopped up
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first in Lorraine, thirty-fve years after
Gutenbergs death. Two learned strangers.
recently arrived, helped greatly. They
were Martin Waltzeemuller, surnamed
Hylacomylus. a famous seographer. and
Matthias Ringmann, q Strasbourg party
of general learning. They had money and
a book to print. 1t was bringing up-to-
date of Ptolemy's geography, with an
added treatise of their own called Cos
?,osra phiae IntrCductio.' 1t all fitted in
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ice autos to that ravine. Those who own
or rent machines have a world of broad
~, lazily, drinking iR the ozone and pine
perfume. Down from the Schlucht that
summer we crossed into the Black forest.
1t had nothing to show lis.
From St. Die on up they are the finest
pines in the whole world-the pines OF
a damp climate. tempering summer
heat, and healthy. There is no dust.
Water gushes everywhere. Along the
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in French entitled: "Quatre Navieations
d Amerique Vespuce''; and so he brought
it with him, thinking that it might in
terest the gentlemen.
There was a reignng duke for you
and family. Rene and his YOlande could
point back and show their children its
beginnings in that Gerard Of Alsace. first
hereditary Duke of Lorraine who in 1913
built himself a country place at present
Gay Gerardnner. Seven hundred years they
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dom quit the pine line. From st. Die up
to 1.-THE ceiling is big word for its
but glimpses Of a precipice and void OF
liquid air now and again. There are no
peaks. The contours are round and blue.
but varying daylight gives them every
tone Of blue. green, on to black. And
everywhere run sparkling torrents-water
good to drink.
On the clipped turf Of tiny valleys
spread interminab BILE lines Of white-coarse
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relics-the house OF Canon Jean Bazin de
Sandacourt and the little church exactly
as it was built by Wautrin Lud in SS3.
Pure work, harmonious and neat, Lost
among the great wet trees of the little
Lorraine town, in the lap of the eternal
hills. the little Roman chapel is one of
those rare places where the heavy mantle
of cares and ambitions falls to the pink
grt-stone slabs like shadow
But the sacred spot is ths cathedral
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r came through st.
Die one summer
on our way TO Ger
ardmer.
Nobody stopped
off at st. Die in
those days - just
two years ago. The
trains went on up.
up to the delectabie
forests Of the ali
station De 9 / q @
"Gerard's sea-
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in foreign
lands is the gala
day OF the entire
year. and Is cele-
brated with a zest
that is rarely found
in this country,
where the chief
features Of the oc-
caHon are choral
services ard Dame
Fashions parade
Of Easter fnery. In
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baroness HENGEL-
- MULLER, Wife of Am
bassador From Austria-Hun-
gary, Tells of Easter Lunch
con on Estates of Her Father
French Easter a Floral
One Queer Ceremony of
Explosion of the Car" in
Italy-Baroness de Bode De-
scribes the Russian Form of
Celebration Counties Won
Bernstorff Tells of German
Children and Their Easter
Eggs - Mile. Calvo Finds
Church Services in Costa
RIGA Impressive Mexico's
Queer Hanging of Judas
1scariot.
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In Italy Easter is quite the most i'm
portant religious festival of the year and
a time of public and private rejoicing. At
Rome on Easter day and for several days
afterward religious professions are to be
seen on the streets. Dignitaries Of the
church. clad in gorgeous raiment. march
from church to church, blessing the bap-
tismal fonts and reminding the altar fires
that were extinguished on Good Friday in
memory of the death of Christ.
A most unique custom marks the OBJ
servance of holy week in Florence. Italy.
The chances are that it will be discontln-
ued in a few years, for recently it has
been marred by the deaths ahd painful
burnings Of several of the spectators.
AT noon. on Saturday of holy week.
said one Of the secretaries of the Italian
embassy, "a ceremony called the 'scOppio
del CARO- uhe explosion Of the carr
takes place in the PiaZzO del Duomo,
just in front of the BattisterO. 1t Is in
fulfllment of provision in the will OF
the de PaZzi family, an ancient F'loren-
tine household, certain members OF which
brought flints from the Holy Land with
which TO l1fndle the fires on the affairs at
Easter.
The car which resembles an altar
and is nearly as large as a small frame
house, ia drawn to the square before the
cathedral by a team Of white oxen. where
it is filed with fireworks and decorated
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ST. DIE, VOSGES French Lorraine.