River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-20

legacy with instructions to the church wardens
to distribute colored eggs to communicates on
Easter morning. That entails giving away about
600 of these eggs.
Many ceremonies and sports distinguished the
celebration of Easter in olden times In royal
roll of the time of Edward I preserved in the
tower. appears entry of Is pence for 400 eggs
to be used for Easter gifts. Town authorities
engaged with due dignity in games OF ball. IN
the northern parts of England the men paraded
the streets Easter Sunday and claimed the
privilege of lifting every they met three
times from the ground, receiving in payment
kiss or a silver sxpence. The same done
by the women to the men the next day. 1t is re-
corded also that Easter Monday the
had right to strike their husbands and on Tues
day the struck their wives as in December
the servants scolded their masters From Ger
man authority it is learned that in the Neumark
on Easter day the men servants whip the maid
servants with switches, and Monday the maids
whip the In parts of Germany par
ents and children try to surprise each other III
bed on Easter morning to apply the health-giving
switches.
In Palestine, Easter is the day when relatives
and friends exchange gifts and it is the family
reunion day, much is Christmas in America.
On Easter a grand mass is celebrated at IL
o'clock midnight, at which all present receive
the Lords supper. After the service, which lasts
about four hours the crowds go home to break
their fast and feast on the daintes prepared be-
fore hand. In the morning visits are exchanged
between relatives and friends, the younger PEG
pie go to the older people first to wish them a
bright Easter and many happy returns About
p. m grand patriarchal procession walks to the
church Of the Holy Sepulchre singing those melo-
dious Gregoran songs. The scene is particularly
imposing There follows a service in tbe
Greek cathedral at which the gospel for Easter
day is read in all the leading languages of the
world
The first person to salute the car of Russia ON
Easter morning with the words Christ is Risen"
must be greeted in turn with a royal kiss No
matter how lowly the person-the meanest of
beggars even-the great car must bestow upon
him brotherly kiss. Not so many casters ago
the car compelled bye this inexorable Gus
tom to kiss the cheek of a peasant sentry sta
toned in the garden to which the czar had es-
capped for an early morning walk.
The Spaniards believe that he who is born on
Good Friday has the gift of second sight They
delight to tell that Philip w was second-sighted
because he came into the world on this day
Spanish women, well as many English country
women. declare that sewing done on Good Fri
day will never come undore.
By many European peasants the wind is watch
ed on Palm Sunday in the belief that from what
direction it then blows, thence it will come
most frequently during the ensuing year The
Spaniard who is fortunate enough to secure a
palm. blessed and used in a church procession
on Palm Sunday, fastens it to the balcony of his
house for protection from lightning
An interesting Easter egg custom prevails in
Poland. On Easter Monday every head of a
house man or woman, presents each visitor on
his call with a hard-boled egg, or. rather the