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THE CHINA \MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1953.

EASTER WAS ONCE WHEN JOHNNIE STOPS

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By J. W. Taylor

ONG before Eastor be. Transylvania a young man would came the Christian keep guard outside the home of festival to

his sweetheart on Easter Monday com- with a bucket of water. As the memorate the Resurrection girl emerged he would pour the of Our Lord, it was a great water over her until she had pagan feast the feast of paid a ransom of Easter eggs.

of Eostre, the Goddess

In Derbyshire, festoons of do- Spring. And some of its corated eggs, known as Pasch ancient customs, born cars, were kept in cottages and countless centuries ago, still were reverently passed down from generation to generation, survive today, though with while olsewhere in Britain it is the passage of time the not so long ago that children heathen symbols. have as went around the neighbourhood sumed n Christian sign. begging for "pace" or "Pasque" ficance.

The baking of hot cross buns on Good Friday, for instance, is the survival of a custom thousands of years old. The wheaton cakes of primitive man were first baked as a thanksgiving and an offering at fertility ritos, The Romans presented to their gods consecrated bread divided into lines marking quarters; to the Christian,

Cross.

CKED.

Arriving at a house they would chant;

J

"Eggs, bacon, apples no

cheese, Bread or corn, if you please,

Or any are too thing that

will make us

In duc

Moon" consist of 20 and 30 days alternately with certain modi Beations to make the dale of its Full agree as nearly as possible with that of the real moon.

Easter Day foll on March 22- the earliest possible date-in 1873, 2008, 1701 and 1818, and on April 25 (the latest posable date) in 1540, 1041, 1730, 1888 and 1949. Next year it will be on April 13, in 1055 on April 10, and in 1956 on April 1.

Agitation

Faster should be laatutay in

66

CRYING

Johnnie “emoting" for the press in his London hotel. On the right; relaxed.

1 London. His ability to weep real tears In that time I felt lonely.

aften I

HERE has recently been fored

fresi agliation for a Easter Day. Twenty-five years

the House apo

of Commons third agreed to a motion for a reading a Bill laying down that day the second April. Easter Day would thus

but 15,"

clause In

the time it was' the way painted in many colours besides always full between April 9 and family. We're like that all

before that provided

I was brought up." red or decorated with intricate Bill

Into operation regard ations, and more recently they it came became triumphs of the chocolate should be had to any opinion ex- manufacturers' art. Even trans- pressed officially by the various eggs have made Christion churches. As the parent plastic

course, cres were

the

Cloud That Cried,"

F He wrote L. Sample; The little white cloud that

cried,

He told me ho was very

lonesome

RYING," said Johnnie and off-key voice, has made sut now, believe those words Ray, "runs in the him a theatre headliner and re- I sing in The Little White

Johnnie, a hearing-aid fixed cord heptacler,

in his left car with the wire ** running under his white shiri, relaxed in his hotel and said:

"This crying is not an act man. It is the story of my life. accident and became partly said Ray: "I don't bellove in deat.

hiding emotion that is the "It was two years before 1 cause of phobias, neuroses and started using my houring-ald," "complexes. Pooplo

are 100 crowded inside themselves theso days, I show them the emotion they are scared of." **

CLOTHES CUT

this became the sign of the their appearanco since the war, churches have never been able old, married but separated from When I was twelve; I had an 1. No.one cared the lived or

The giving of eggs at Easter Toes back to pro- time also Roman times. To carly man the was the symbol of the universe, and there are traces

filled of course with chocolates, to agree on this matter, there sweeta or miniature chicks.

appears to be little prospect of the adoption of a fixed Easter in

Spiced Cakes the near future.

MOST other old Easter customs

at

in the theology of the Ancient have died away. At Fadding-

of its ton, in West London, and Egyptions and Fertians significance at the

primitive Twickenham, an Easter custom was to throw bread from the summit of the church steeple to be scrambled for by the people below. A favourite Easter dish In the Eastern Counties was a tansy pudding to imitate the bitter herbs of Passover.

Spring celebrations, while Aus tralian aborigines and Hawaiian natives still practise certain rites in which the egg, the symbol of fertility, figures prominently,

Dyed Red

WITH the

John Alvin Ray, a pale" thin, six-foot young man, 25 years his wife, flew into London the other day to demonstrate his art of public sobbing as top of the bill at the Palladium.

The CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

Which girls marry

the

money?

inquiry which involves

aled.

Mr Ray has been showing of salary 'themat A about £2,000 a werk for nearly two years now. Before that, when it was not fashion- ablo to cry publicly, he was Just a singer earning £25 wock in a bar, less than the man who served the drinks.

When he performs he re- moves his hearing-ald, flings his hands about and OC** the spirit casionally, when the moves me," leaps down to kiss girls in the audience.

In Dorset and Somerset, the parish clerk used to visit the coming of the houses of chief parishioners Christian era, the egg has and present each member of symbolised the Resurrection. It the family with spiced cakea

"In that so remarkable?" he known

Easter

don't became the custom to associato commonly

asked. "After all, they And In Ripon

one

WHAT

Six out of every 10 brides the are them with Paschal sacrifices and cakes,

from poorer homes better them more than 3,000 young mothers complain, although I do it less Durham

It was customary for ritual, and dye them red. They

modern girl's

selves socially, They are main-

frequently now because they were blessed and sprinkled with men to loosen the buckles of

chances of

So for the survey has shown bring along knives and scissors a ly girls with parents who were

far that tall girls-over 8 ft. 4 ins, holy water in the churches and women's shoes on Easter Sunday,

romance? sufficiently unselfish and

to cut my clothes for souvenirs," and for women to return the "rags-to-riches"

them glve distributed on Easter Sunday,

every stand a better chance of

and After his shows aro compliment on Easter Monday. How many brides are sliding sighted to

chance of a good education. proving their lot through mar thủ ngonlaod look has left his is recard that

in Buckies could be redeemed only down the social scale Thero

Hage than petite giris. They face, Johnnie often has to be are also generally mediaeval times, English bishops by a present,

their wedding day? How

healthier, helped to the dressing room to have an easier time at chilt-recover with a glass of water. took hard-boiled eggs to church and, at the start of the Antiphon, Other old customs in Derby-many daughters of wealthy

birth, and have fewer prema~ | they would begin to dance, shire were "ugar-cupping" and men are finding husbands

tp the eggs

the "ting throwing

tha chair"

For the who keep them in the top

would choristers who tossed them to former, young people

bracket? one another until the music assemble at Dripping Tor with ented.

cups containing small quantitica of sugur or honey. They would catch water In their cups, mix the substance and drink it, re peating a doggerel verse.

In some parts of Europe, lovers

would exchunge hard-boiled eggs on Easter morning and roll them together down a slope-it' was a particularly good omen if the in collided - while eggs

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was acated in the chair and lifted in the air three times.

a kiss from the woman, who, in

answers

on

Threefold

21 to Ilisley,

ture babies. The scientists are them

As for the audience: "I give,

These findings have emerged

something they are not from a detailed marriage sur- vey being carried out under the already satisfed that a mother's likely to forgot. At 25, I'm a physique and mental outlook →→→ leadership of Mr Raymond both largely the result of her blessed with a talent to give rich young man, because I'm Metical Research Surprising

an them happiness." Main early upbringing -- have

enormous influence on whether these questions are shown Council social scientist.

based in Aberdeen, 18 three time while having a baby. in figures just issued by object of the survey, which the will have a difficult or easy Medical Research Counell foldi

And thi scientists.

For instance....

childbirth than

And a be-ribboned chair was

To investigate why Home 1 mathers have a more dif- taken round from house to

Most of the brides from the house by young men: when they best-off families 70 out of cult time at managed to catch a woman, she every 100-are marrying bo- others.

discover why some neath them. The majority silde To The no further thon

the middle babies are stillborn or are men then had the right to claim class; but ten in every 100 of born prematurely.

2. To find out why the birth- them ma

marry manual workers.

babies a. A girl brought

weight of normal up in

5 lb. to 10 middle-class home stantis little varies from better chance of reaching the even in the same family. top by marriage (alx percent) than a working-class girl does (four per cent).

Qut

every four IN central and southern Ger- One

be many, bonfires were lit on middle-class girls marries hillsides on the eve of Easter, neath her.

turn, presented them with sma gift of money,

Bonfires

People from the surrounding villages would bring sticks of

oak, walnut and beech to char in

the fre: these would be kept in their homes as protection against fire, hall and lightning.

In Albania, young people

of

Height, even

13

Influence - Every possible social, medical, and psycholo gical is being investigated

AN IMAGINARY BIKE

CAN SAVE A LIFE.

hurl flaming torches into rivers THE ample exercise of it was the day to cast out ovil, and in Silesia, lying on your back and held near the skin.

peasants sweep houses and farm

bulidings with brooms, making pedalling

away.

in

detector

They found that the blood

an imaginary flow was greatly accelerated

as much noise as possible, on bicycle can be a life-saver, when the head was lower than Good Fridays to scare witches according to discoveries the legeeven by only a few

made by doctors at a Lon- inches

The slightest pedalling exer- cise can trebis the speed of the Gypsies, too, stage picturesque don hospital.. ceremonies at Easter time to Ry speeding up the blood circulation in the legs, So for protect themselves against circulation in the logs it helps Invallds and old people the doc

provent

recommend ness and evil spirits, and to en- to

thrombosis - A ters

"gewing aure plentiful food for them- blockcago in an artery or vein machine" pedalling 1 simply Scives and fodder for their which may bring on serious waggling the feet from the an- animals.

complications.

kles as on a treadle, sowing The legs of a typist sitting machine,

the Incidentally,

inquiry As at present ordained, Easter at her deak or of a workman falls on one of 35 days-on the|flanding by his Inthe de not showed that crossing the knees Arst Sunday after the full moon get enough movement to pro does not restrict the circulation. which happens upon, or next mete full circulation. That is as commonly believed. after the 21st day of March. It why thrombosis is much com the full moon falls on a Sunday, manae in the legs than in the Easter Day is the. Sunday after, arms,

But the Moon referred to is not

Doctors at University

Col-

THAT MURMUR /

IF YOUR baby has what the doctors call a "heart Into murmur" the odds are more

the real moon of the heavens, lego Hospital injected, a harm but a hypothetical moon on whose less radioactive chemical

will

"hut" the date of Easter depends. volunteers, and timed its course than qve to one that it The lunations of this "Calendar through the body by following disappear by the age of two.

JOHNNY HAZARD.

WITH A GYPT, CAT-LIKE, MOTION, JOHNNY REACHED OUT AND GEIZES.

SAXON'S WHIP/.

David Lewin

"One Lump-or Two?"

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