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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
MARCHERS At GOAL
Proud Suffragists Enter Al
bany Footsore and Weary.
BUT FIVE COMPLETE TRIP
Gen" Rosalie Jones Claims to
Have Walked ia Miles.

ALBANY. y. Y. December oS.-Tired
and footsore, but still enthusiastic and
glorying in the fact that they reached
their destination two days ahead of
schedule. the little band of '.suffragette
pilgrims who walked ia miles from
New York to present a message to Cow
elect Sulzer advocating votes for women.
arrived in Albany shortly after O'clock
this afternoon.
The ia miles. which Gen" Rosalie
Jones said was the record shown by the
official registers, although railroad maps
show some twenty-five miles less, were
covered in twelve days of walking, an
average of fourteen and one-half miles a
day.
New York December Ii. five-"Gen.' .
Jones. Surgeon General Livinia Dock
Col" Ida Craft. Corporal NJ n
Stiles and Private Sybil Wilbur-com-
pleted the long hike. Mrs. Inez Craven
dropped out en- route.
Sulzer Expected Monday.
The message. the contents Of which
will not be known until Gov.-elect Sulzer
reads it, will be placed in his hands as
soon after his arrival as possible The
governor-elect is expected here Monday
All the marchers- reported none the
worse for. their long trip. with the ex-
ception of Surgeon, Dock. She is suf-
fering. slightly. from. rheumatism. and
limped noticeably-
Il should like to have everybody form
a new Year resolution that they shall,
at least. consider seriously the PROPOSE
ton of votes for women, if they are not
at the present time absolutely in favor
of It, said Gen Jones tonight.
I'VE feel that We have touched the
people along the line of march in a way
that could have been effective by no
other method. A pilgrimage has always
stood for the highest ideals Of the cause
it represents, and we are sure from the
receptions we have been accorded that
our march has not been in vain.'
Escorted Into City.
TOdays journey was from Niverville a
distance of fifteen miles 4 score of local
workers for the cause, headed by Miss
Elizabeth NJ. Smith, president of the Al
bany Equal Suffrage Club, met the
marchers at East Greenbush shortly
after noon and escorted them to Albany.
There was no brass band, however.
The pilgrims paraded up to the capitol
and down State street to the hotel where
they VIII make their headquarters in the
city. There was no demonstration dur
ing the march. Arriving at the hotel
Cen" Jones made brief speech thank
ing all friends and sympathizers. All
the marchers were besieged by friends
and congratulated upon the successful
conclusion of the journey.
Local suffragists are planning a num-
ber of receptions and teas for the march
ers during their stay in Albany.
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Fair today and probably Mon
day. with moderate temperature;
light southwest winds.
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Query Is EN- mbarrassing.

NJ. Novakovitch asked the Turks to say
openly whether their proposals represent
ed their last word.
Rechad Pasha was evidently disconcert-
ed by this point blank question. He eluded
direct answer. saying that his instruc-
tiOns did not authorize reply either way
NJ. Venzelos wished to add an interpre-
tation of the desire Of the allies. He de-
clared that they never would accept q dis
cussion of reforms. especially concerning
Macedonia, at this stage, when 1t was
not a question of reforms but question
of ceding territories won by force of arms
and thus rightly belonging to the
Victors.
Rechad Pasha. in view Of the turn taken
by the discussion declared that he would
transmit to Constantinople the Observa-
tions made by the allies in the hope that
he would receive by Monday the reply Of
his government. which he would hasten to
submk to the conference.
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whatever the title, they are treated
with about equal heart1essness. in
every land-even the usually polite
Oriental indulging, from long before
the Birth of Christ, in this annual
form of diversion.
And. strangely, in no matter what
era, country, or tongue the day has
been recognized it has always come
on what exactly corresponds with our
first of April.
The Chinese account for the origin
of All Fools Day by a fable handed
down from the mazes of antiquity
According to this, a certain great
prince had the misfortune to offend
an enchanter, but also obtained the
protection of a fairy. When his son
grew up and succeeded to the throne
the enchanter and fairy fought for
the possession of the prince.
The fairy turned her enemy first
into a rock and then into a stream of
water. This torrent swept over the
prince and carried him away a dis
lance of two miles where a sunken
lake was created. 1t was named 1.-The
pool of Iscamma," in honor of the
prince and a yearly festival in his
memory was instituted. Gradually,
on that day, it became the custom to
send persons "to find Iscamma," or to
search in vain. This event, supposed
to have been dated April Fools Day,
is ascribed to the Isle of Chiekock,
on the seventh of the moon of MAZDA
which in the European calendar
makes April first &C. @-3.a r p
Yet, perhaps, from amid the nu-
merous origins put forth by various
races the most plausible-because it
seems to find confirmation by every
Occidental writer on the subjects
that it was celebrated first as the final
day of the octave forming the Roman
New Year. With all pagans every
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tian church only, rather toned down
concerning certain unseemly and i'm
moral dances in the skins of wild
beasts. By degrees fasts and Litanies
were put in place of the earlier pro-
fame festivities.
But the old Adam was never quite
expelled from them. cit was" an
old writer explains, this moral leaven
which caused the name of fiesta
Hypodiaconorum to be bestowed on
the day, not because only sub-deacons
took part in the mock solemnities, but
because higher officials of the Church
were ashamed to acknowledge them
on account of their immoral enormi-
ties.
In ancient Rome, Plutarch tells that
the Quirinalia was called the Feast
of Fools''-Festa Stultorum-in honor
of Quirinus and derived it's second
appellation from the fact that the
stupid part of his people, (who were
ignorant of their own tribe, or curia)
had, from absence or neglect, missed
their own tribes celebration of the
Fernacalia-a festival instituted in
honor of the goddess of ovens in order
that the corn might be sufficiently
baked. They were allowed to hold
their belated feast separately on April
first, or All Fools Day.
Back in Biblical times there ap-
pears a suggestion of the April Fool
quest in the errand on which Annas
was sent from Caiphas to PLATE, from
PLATE to Herod and back again to
plate. This was a FOOLS errand for
which no cause can be found other
than to trick him and, strangely,
students of sacred lore claim it befe1l
just about April first.
By tracing the calendar and COM
pairing with modern dates it is also
asserted that Noah "April-fooled" the
dove, sending it forth before the
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them in place. Then cut two long
green leaves; wrap the wire with a
strip of green and put on the two
leaves an inch or two apart.
These make admirable name cards
for Easter luncheons or dinners; so
does the Chinese Mandarin, made as
follows. Mark the slanting eyes and
oriental features with pen and ink
on a yellow shell. Make a hat of
crinoline covered with black silk or
with pen and ink. putting red tassel
and button in the cen ter of the crown.
Braid strands of coarse linen thread
into a pigtail two or two and one-half
inches long and fasten with paste or
this is dry fasten the cap in place
with a drop of glue and last of all set
ttr Mandarin in the middle of a nest
of frilled white papers.
Mark the features of an cid woman
on another shell; strip of frilled
paper will make her cap, which with
a three-cornered bit of plaid wrapped
about the shoulders will give you a
capital old woman.
Other fascinating doll eggs are made
by combining paper heads and arms
with egg shell bodies. Empty the
shells by making a small hole in each
end and blowing out the contents.
With sharp knife or scissors cut off
one end, so that the shell will stand
on the cut edges. This will be for
a doll without skirts. Another variety
may be made by setting the point
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MONG the many sym bUls which
have been employed to mark
the Easter festival Few are
y " more interesting than the sa-
cred egg, which is used in nearly every
country in the world to celebrate the
coming of spring.
The custom OF giving colored eggs
at Easter is observed in Switzerland,
Russia, Germany, France, the Tyrol
and the Orient, as well as in our own
country. At first they were only col
ored red in remembrance of the blood
of Christ which was shed upon the
cross. Some old writer's declare that
they were also enblematic Of the scar
let cloaks of the Cardinals.
with the Egyptians they were fig-
urative of the survival OF mankind
after the deluge. To the Jews, they
signified the emancipation OF the chill
dren of Israel Egyptian bondage,
and were partaken of In common with
the paschal lamb at@t4Te feast of the
Passover, which falls at the same
time as Easter. The Romans consid-
cred the egg as the origin OF all things
and they were in the habit of begin
ming their repasts by eating them. To
the Christians they represented the
resurrection Of Christ, who arose from
the tomb just as the tiny chick comes
forth from the walls OF its fragile
prison.
The earliest mention of coloring
hard boiled eggs in the Celestial King
d. dom, where IT has always been
thought worth while to record mat
ters of the smallest moment, is found
in the annals of ancient date, B. c.
722, where we read:
1.-The custom to Inlay fouls eggs
on the Cold Meat Festival comes from
a powerful chieftain OF antiquity, who
ate such eggs and called them painted
eggs. Nowadays people also dye eggs
with blue. red and mixed colors; they
carve them in very beautiful fashion
and inlay them to send as gifts to
their friends and relatives"
Italians eat no flesh. eggs or but
ter during Lent. but eggs play a prom
inent part in the Easter feast. Great
pyramids of them adorn the table dur
ing Easter week and are offered to
every visitor; these are multi-colored
and decorated with gilt
In Ischia q young engaged girl
sends on Palm Sunday 1o1 eggs and
a branch Of olive to her lover. On the
18th of May he sends her twelve
pounds Of marrons. a sweetmeat Pc
GUITAR to Italy made from honey and
almonds into hard paste.
In Hungary the boys sprinkle the
girls with rose-water and receive coll
ored eggs in return
After the midnight mass in the
Greek church great chargers of eggs
are blessed by the Patriarch and dis
tributed to each person in the audi
ence. Colored eggs are exhibited for
sale on the street and that individual
a
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of the egg into hot sealing wax placed
in the middle of a square cardboard.
Pretty coats and dress skirts are made
of frilled tissue paper all fastened on
with glue or paste. The features may
be made to represent any nationality
and an old man with a pipe Is as fas-
cinating as grotesque.
A Humpty-Dumpty doll egg IL per
haps the easiest one to make, as it
will not tax the ingenuity of the
veriest amateur. Mark the familiar
features with ink and cover the head
with fantastic crown; do this with
ink also. Cover five bits of wire with
hesh-colored crinkly paper and put
them through two holes at the side
which you have made previously and
bend to suit the angle of an arm. Now
separate the fingers from the arm and
fasten the paper ends with paste.
Proceed in the same way for the feet
and arrange the wires at such an an
gle as will enable the egg-doH to
stand alone.
Plain papier-mache eggs for hold
ing small gifts and candles may be
bought in the shops and decorated at
home with a brush or decalcofnanie
pictures, which transfer without trou-
BILE and are a never ending source
of delight to those who cannot work
with brush and paints.
Many of the novelties shown in the
shops may be made at home by clever
fingers that are good at Initiating
things. For instance. a tiny round
basket made of twigs is gilded with
splashes of gold or silver paint. 1t
is filed with sugar eggs and IL pre-
sided over by a small canton flannel
rabbit. who Is secured to the rim Of
the basket.
Another basket is made in the shape
of a shoe Of colored rama with a che
mile cord outlining at top and bot
tom. A pair OF yellow chickens and
a pink-eyed rabbit keep watch and
ward over the Easter eggs within.
A third basket in the shape OF a low
ing cup is made of pasteboard, COW
cred with green paper and lined with
pink. A tiny chick is perched on each
handle. Both chickens and rabbits
NAV be bought ready made in the
shops II one cares TO shirl< a portion
of the work.
For suspending the eggs upon which
faces, figures and inscriptions have
been done with pen and ink make the
hole at the top large enough to intro
duce a match; break of the sulphur
end and tie a bit of thread tightly
around the center and then slip II
into the hole longitudinally, being
very careful not to lose the ends OF
the thread nor to break the shell.
Once the match is inside it will right
itself with a little manipulation and
the ribbons for suspension are easily
attached by using the threads. An
infinite variety MAJ be made in this
manner.
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will adhere well If they are not made
free of any foreign matter.
After the shells of the eggs have
been cleansed immerse them in hot
water and take a little tube such as
confectioners use to decorate their
cakes with, or If that is not to be had
\ tallow candle will do and write
names and dates, etc. The warmth
of the egg makes this an easy matter
Put the eggs into q pan of cochineal
or other dye. The part inscribed will
remain white, while the egg takes on
the coloring matter.
Another method is to color the en-
tire egg and etch inscriptions, ETC.,
with a pen-knife, scraping off the dye.
The tuIip-egg is rather more elabo-
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King Queen Paad Him Courtv

the Foot and Paid Him Court"
joke on record was perpetrated on
citizens of London in the year of
1850. During the latter part OF March
a vast number of people received, IN
their morning mail. cards bearing
what appeared to be an oflcial stamp
but was really wax impressed with a
sixpence turned upside down. 1t
read: Tower of London-Admit
bearer to view the annual Ceremony
of Washing the White Lions, on Sun
day, April 1st. 1850. Admitted only
at the White Gate. 1t is particularly
requested that no gratuity be given
any of the Wardens or their Assist
ants"
The stolid English got up before
daybreak to be in time for the re-
markable performance. They hadn't
the slightest idea what 1t meant. but
that only whetted their curiosity the
more. All day long, cabs and car
riages were rafting over the stones
around Tower Hill searching for the
White Gate. OF course there wasn't
any such gate and gradually the
victims realized that they had been
offered up on the altar OF April Fools
Day.
So much for the fools OF yesterday.
Nobody could convince the average
small boy that his strategic feats of
April first ever were or will be sur
passed. He ties his trick purse across
the pavement and wriggles with glee
when a pompous grown-up stoops for
it. He runs off with a sagging gate
from some dilapidated yard and hangs
it on the imposing iron fence of
splendid mansion. He vets flour and
throws it on pedestrians, rings door
bells and grows hoarse from frequent
repetitions of SAY Mister. you
dropped your handkerchief" or You
lost your pocketbook."
But things really have way OF get
ting lost on April first, as we'll as on
any other day of the calendar. And
sometimes the too-knowing person
proves the greatest April Fool of all.
Occasionally a small boy shouts to a
man that the latter has dropped his
purse; the man mods comprehendingly
but goes on-leaving his wallet to be
picked up later by one who proves
theory of Confucius which reads
From a fool the wise can often learn
wisdom"
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IRON NEUROLOGICAL times, when
~ merry Iambe was sent with
Ceres on a vain hunt for Pros
perpine, clear down through the
days of the witty Stuart-fools to the
routine tricks OF today, April Fools
day has been given sover to queer an
tics and the perpetration of jokes at
the expense OF another. In every Ian
guage. April first IL named for the
equivalent of fool
At one period 1t was strictly pagan;
at another somewhat mixed up with
certain observances OF the Christian
church; and today it is celebrated
chiefly by Juveniles and rustics. AT
its inception it was rather the higher
stratum of society that annually cele-
brated 1t. Believing that since every
god and saint had a day" SO should
every fool-or Jester-FoyaI courts
designated that day coming on April
first In the modern Calendar as All
Fools Day and during those twenty
four hours reversed all usual pro-
cedure. .#tt
In France the Court Jester was an
important parsonage. He was the
means of enlivenins so u1anya4eithe
wise weary hours that monarchs S5wed
he and his kind were elevated to the
throne. and the King and Queen stood
st the foot and paid him court. His
fools "bauble'' was regarded as the
rank of kingly office and any mandate
he Issued-short of power over life
and death-was obeyed. And. it is
said, sometimes a foolish ruler re-
ceived q much needed lesson from the
orders Of his Jester.
Modern France rather tnclines to
circuses and gay outdoor perform
ances on April first Through the
Provinces little two wheeled carts
journey to hamIets where any enter
tainment is a novelty. From the
tailboard regulation jester, in tight
fitting ieshings, peaked cap with bells
and his "bauble'' in his hand, gives
a characteristic performance. A
favorite diversion is to pause suddenly
amid a serious talk and give a smart
blow with his stick to some one in the
audience; or to rap out a witticisrn at
the expense of a listener; or best of
all. to offer free sweetmeats and then
go into paroxysrns Of mirth at the
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important festival lasted for eight
days. the first and last being the most
significant. Now, the year with the
Romans ushered in on what is
now March 25th and the. feasting
ended on April first. Also, there was
much in the nature of the celebration
to link it with modern All Fools Day.
The entire last day was given over
to "fool-making' of a nature very
similar to that with which the Ameri-
can small boy fools his contempo-
raries. It was called ''Kalendarurn,' %
and came in their January calendar.
The public rejoicing of the Gentiles
at this time was adopted by the Chris
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, waters had receded, on the first day
of the month among the Hebrews
that corresponds with the initial day
of our fourth month.
A German writer-in whose country
this venerable old custom is firmly
esta blished-gives one of the most
sensible of theories when he claims
that April itself is the fool month,
with her deceitful and varying
weather. zone goes forth in the sun
shine for a walk he says, only to
be April-fooled and come home in a
deluge of rain. April's quick recur-
ring sun-smiles being her woman's
laughter at peoples confiding folly
Sweden is to American minds so
peopled with grave, serious folk that
indulgence in the droll horse-play of
the first of April seems hardly fitting.
Yet that land has to it's April Fool
credit one of the most ingenuously
tormenting ceremonies of the day. 1t
is thought extremely funny to stand at
an upper, open window with a bucket
of water and a pail of ashes in readi-
ness. AS some especially well-dressed
fool approaches he is given enough
of the water to cause him, instinc-
lively, to look up; Immediately
handful of ashes is received in his
eyes and all over his fine raiment.
Strangest of all, in tracing the
course of the April Fool joke and the
joker down through the world, is to
learn that the studiously polite and
dignified Hindoo has numbered such
a celebration among those of his
country from time immemorial. Every
year a great feast is held in all India
which corresponds exactly with the
features of our April first and falls
on the same date.
This is called the Feast of the
Hulf' and during its observance nirth
and Jokes are rampant. There are
the same useless errands, the fake
letter and deceiving edibles and many
hoaxes possessing a uniqueness of
conception beyond the Occidental
mind to invent. AS a rule the lower
classes are most pleased by these
ceremonies, though every grade of
society observes the feast and Surajah
Dowlat, whose Indian name has been
Anglicized into Sir Roget Dowlass,
loved to make Hull Fools of his
friends. t--
About the most gigantic April Fool
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Day. as that is their great festival.

Day. as that is their great festival.
To make any Of the Easter novelties
the egg must first be boiled hard, or
the shell emptied. The blowing of
an egg is a simple matter If one has
glass or brass blow-pipe, such as Is
used by egg collectors.
If the blow-pipe is not available a
pin hole at each end will answer
very well, but one must. be careful
not to hold the egg too tightly or it
will crush in the hands.
Fresh eggs that will sink in water
are the best for blowing. When the
contents are out it is well to rinse
the egg and then let it dry before
decorating. Then there will be no
trouble with them. No decoration
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counts himself friendless who does not
receive dozens of these tokens.
The Rournanians use great Quanti-
ties Of eggs, but there is q certain
sameness in their decorations. They
are either white decorations on a red
they are all, or very nearly all, geo.
metric designs.
The hare or the rabbit is celebrated
for as fertility and because it was
favorite of the goddess Aphrodita,
hence bunny" Is seen in one guise
or another on most Easter offerings.
In Germany it is the universal custom
to hide baskets of eggs about the
house and garden and then all the
family begins the search for them be-
fore breakfast. In every basket there
is sure to be q rabbit and the fun is
enjoyed by all.
In France the Poisson d'Avril, or
April fish, does not supplant the egg,
but takes it's place proudly beside 1t.
Originally the April fish was one of
the April fool customs of France; it
is still, in fact, but as the first of
April is certain to come sometime in
Lent, this toy hastto belong to Easter
almost as much as the egg.
That English children are more
fond of the .'lollipop egg filled with
SWSClS IMAM Va t1AAS OGAASAe NA40 aAOAAOW-
ing lines declare:
AT Easter we get ine egg for the
nonce,
But tits naught but shell and color and
puff.
ia greatly prefer the confectioner's
thing.
The egg that is fashioned of lollipop
stuff
The Persians use colored eggs in
large quantities on their New. Years
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rate, but it is SO pretty that it quite
pays for the extra trouble. For this
is needed some crinkly green paper and
some white and pieces of fine wire.
When the shell is emptied put the wire
into the egg, securing it firmly, using
warm wax. Mark a child's face on
the upper end with pen and ink,
or cut one out of picture If pre-
ferred. Then cut ten leaves of the
white paper and splash them along
the edges and occasionally into the
leaf with red; water color is best, but
red ink will do If nothing better is at
hand.
Arrange them quite irregular1y
around the egg, as tulips are set, the
wax being soft and warm will hold