The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-26
Easter of 1913 is the Earliest
Since l856---How Day is Advanced
When Mayor Gaynor said the other

When Mayor Gaynor said the other
dag that New York city had been
caught mapping he was not thinking
of Easter: he was thinking of steam
ming Post. But being caught mapping
when one should be building long
piers for long steamers is no more
embarrassing than waking up to find
your annual spring holiday knocking
at the door with the thermometer be-
low freezing. snow on the ground, and
your 'spring things" still in moth
balls. or at best. in a still unfinished
state. at the tailor's. the m%illiner's, or
the dressTakers. And that is h pre-
dicament New York may find itself
plunged in when dawns the morning
Of March 23. 1913.
Sunday falls this-beg pardon, next
year. With cries of "Do Your
Christmas shopping early" still ring
ing in h atmosphere. mo- many peo-
pie have thought of other holidays to
conquer. But us a matter OF cold
tperhaps, literally cold). record let it
be here set down that Easter will ar
rive promptly on March 20, n that
It hasn't arrived SO early since the
good old days OF 1856. when there was
no Faster parade. and folks had not
1 tsthIiA " WV
new. almost summary attire. in honor
of the occasion.
If O We're to take the Fourth of
! July n present it to the 9O.OO0.OOO
or so citizens of this land in mid
June. or if you were to grant them
Christmas and all that goes with 1t
carly in December. the upheaval
would be no greater than it will be
when Easter makes it's untimely ap-
| /, Won An, the 11tIStnrfny cfnrlnV
cold, cheerless. and altogether unlik-
I'd and disagreeable month Of March
the month of the great blizzard of
'ss. and other regrettable things at
mospheric. Whatever comfort there
is in knowing that Easter came as
early as this nfty-scven years ago. or
even a day earlier in 1912. or even
two days earlier in the year 337 a. u.
in that part Of thu world known as
point is that in 3S7. also in 1912. and
lin 1856, so far as records go. Easter
parades were not in fashion, n the
particular date did not matter very
much.
But it is a very different matter in
this day and age. Many good people
have come to make use oi Easter In
much the same manner AS the %astrono-
mer uses the North star. And ask any
SIdI -kdAcb ~" '''
~ tonight he found that old reliable
fixture OF place in the armament.
A Movable Feast.
To be sure, Easter has always en-
ioyed the privilege nf rowing more or
less at random over the Gregorian CAL
cndar. IL obeys one of the oldest laws
man ever devised. This is that tho
first Sunday after the full moon fol-
lowing the vernal equinox shall he
called Easter. Usually you may de-
pend on il to work out 40 that Easter
comes whcrc 1T properly belongs. but
this year IT is ~ case Of the vernal
equinox. full moon. n Sunday fol-
lowing SO close upon each others
heels that the holiday is at hand be-
fore anybody. much less the weather.
is really ready for 1t.
In every school n college Easter
is now synonymous with spring rec 81.
a holiday Of from thre days to two
weeks Is declared. Children and young
linen and women are sent home. teach
crs go off on special-ratc tours "a
Washington. Niagara Falls n Der
inuda, and all hands make the most
of "A seasonabie change of climate
, Courses Of study are arranged with
Easter in mind. 1t is tho time fOr
exams in "A host of places. The cur
riculum is wound up and set to ''go
. of" like an alarm clock at Easte,
ftime. All Of which Is thrown out Of
killer this season. The spring home