The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-27

,pare nicely with the more expensive
ones, provided care Is taken IN their
making.
It Is said that at one time q class
OF the High school wishing to make
an innovation in commencement at
tire decided that the young women
should dress In blue calico and the
young men In white duck trousers
and blue serge coats. The idea was
carried out and the class received
much commentator and a good deal
Of publicity on account of It's unique
attire but several Of the young women
are said TO have remarked that their
heart actually failed them when they
marched on the platform and knew
that they were not looking as charming
perhaps as had they been CARRIED in the
conventional graduating costume. Girls
are not girls but once and If they
choose 10 want TO look their prettiest
on this one Of the suspicious occasions
OF their young lives We don't think any
one should have the heart TO say them
nay.
School officials are said not to be
greatly pleased at the innovation or
we might say reinnovation o9 the
graduating dress but when they see
these charming young women looking
the part Of sweet girl graduates" we
believe they will change their minds.
The annual May parade TO beautiful
Woodlawn, the silent city Of the dead
has begun and daily and almost hourly
scores of people can be seen vending
their way to this beautiful spot with
well laden baskets Of geraniums fol-
iage plants and all kinds and descrip-
lions of plants there to spend hours in
fixing up the mounds where lie their
loved dead. This is an annual Gus
tom in this city and Wood1awn GENE
terry Is visited by hundreds of people
previous to May thirtieth who desire
to Sc to IL that the graves OF depart
ed ones which have perhaps begun to
look badly on account of the winter
storms and spring rains do not look
badly but are made to blossom as ros<
es. Anybody who visits this beautiful
spot on the hill on the morning OF
May thirteth will find very few
mounds which have not received some
attention previous TO the day.
People who cultivate flowers also at
this time OF the year begin to wonder
whether It really spays 10 spend hours
of labor and dollars and dollars to cul-
tiyate q rose garden or flower bed of
any kind when the steady stream Of
flower beggars" begin to appear at
the doorway Of these homes to beg
flower or two to place on Grandma's
grave or want to beg flowers to take
to a sick friend etc. This nuisance
keeps up during the entire Towering
season but gets particularly objection.
able long about decoration day. NAH"
flower gardens are literally stripped
OF flowers, many OF them going TO Mt
ter strangers.
These Flower besgars" would hes.
itate to go into a flors' and beg bo-
quet of flowers but they certainly dc
not hesitate to go into private hcme
and disturb the busy housewife and
ask her to go into The yard often
through grass heavy wits rain and
dew and cut flowers for them. peo-
pie evidently do nc. take INTO consid-
Grafton that it takes time AL costs
money to cultivate flowers and that
people who do cultivate them desire to
use them for their own pleasure and
70, the plea:t.. OF th-:r friends.
shabouth, the Feast of Weeks, falls
this year on Wednesday, June 4th.
Originally festival of the first fruits
as enjoined in Deut. XvI:9 Seven
weeks shalt thou number unto thee;
from the time the sickle is first put
TO the standing corn shalt thou begin
to number seven weeks. And thou
shalt keep the feast of weeks into the
Lord thy God after the measure of the
free-will offering OF thy hand which
thy God, blesseth thee. And thou
shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God.
thou and thy son, and thy daughter,
and thy man-servant and thy maid
servant, and the Levite that is within
thy gates ,aud the stranger, and the
fatherless and the widow, that are in
the midst OF thee, in the place which
the Lord thy God shall choose to cause
His name to, dwell there. And thou
shalt remember that thou vast al
bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt OBJ.
serve and do these statutes"
In Biblical times the feast of weeks
was merely farmers holiday at the
end OF the first seven weeks of har-
vest and it's ceremonial, the simple az.
ricultural offerings brought as
thanksgiving token for the new crop
they gathered.
In common with other agricultural
festivals the feast of weeks under
went a gradual Transformation. AS
the Jewish people began to enjoy a
historical consciousness, they linked
traditional events with surviving fes-,
tiyals and institutions transmitted