Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 March 1921 — Page 4

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e ASl'KK. ÜÜll.'ln COUNTV, INDIAN Entered a iecondcIi?2tt( h ta oostofbce at Jainer, Ind. under the ace of March 3, 1807 mbwrio-ion 12 0 Ter Year. Thii papei ie mailed regularly tela 8ib2criterf until a lnn;te order to liscirtinaeii teceive.1 r wdm aid nfnli: inters in ti diecellon of thpubliehera different ocgtig should be rieeneo advisable. mtQrQSis-Qorneftrst

FRIDAY MARCH 25. 1921.

PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN Observe Oswald Stupid, tlu? StoneAge Advertiser, helping make the Town Beautiful by tacking Signs all over Everything. Ilefore Newspapers were Invented, this was considered Keen Advertising, but Not No More. IId you ever see Anybody rarrying a Telephone Pole home to Kead the Ads on It? DID YOU DREAM OF CROSSING A BRIDGE? NEARLY all authorities agree that to dream of crossing a bridge indicates success In business. If you dream that the bridge Is In bad condition and that you are warned not to cross It, and yet do cross it. Is a sign that you will rapidly go onward to success. If you have any dlfiiculty In getting across your dream bridge, and yet do so, It means that you will successfully overcome ob"t:i-l thrown in your path. Simply to n a bridge In a dream means that you will soon be called upon to exert yourself to get the better of some private difficulty or business obstacle. But don't fall off your bridge of dreams wake up before you do that. However, If you should fall off, or be pushed off, or be forced to leave the roadway to avoid being run over. If you support yourself by clinging to the structure It Is still a good sign, for It means the overcoming of difficulties on the road to success. Only one authority can be found who regards it unlucky to dream of a bridge; the almost unanimous verdict is the other way except that you should not fall entirely off the structure. In that case, or If the bridge collapses under you, beware of false friends. (Copyright.) O Castlos in the air are nil right In a way, but you must remember they are" not equipped with steam heat, hot and cold running water or modem baths. Wc have heard of benevolent autarrats. Iut our gratitude goes out to the dictators of masculine fashions who Miy the !il ty!es will do for anotlier year. There seem to be about three ways to get a man's money, viz, honestly, plain robbery and profiteering. And we state them in the order of their respectability. You notice, don't you, that when a boy arrives at the age when he begins to see that girls are worth while after nil, lie no longer shies nt soap and doesn't smell so had. Medical authorities assert that homo lrew Is causing many cases of gastritis, but It isn't gastritis that makes a man spin around like a top and then try to climb a telephone pole. This grr.1t willingness to welcome Immigrant who are ready to go to the farm makes us wonder why the native Americans lo not after the best obs in the country themselves. Somebody Is proposing road work tt nld unemployment. That may help In aorr.e case, but most of our unemployed are demanding roller-top desk Job, with red-headed stenos and free gum. A Fnjall boy returning from a visit to the movies was nm over by an automobile nnd killed, which regrettable Incident will no doubt be seized upon fin another argument for suppression of the movies.

Last Night's Dreams What They Mean

V - I 1 Sl - V The Rabbit and the Easter Egg How t lid the rabbit get Into the nest of Easter eggs? Of all the curious legends the , centuries have gathered about the Easter season none are more widely circulated than those having to do with the rabbit and the Easter eggs. Easter eggs are seen all over the Chris tian world 'on Easier Sunday, and wherever the eggs are there is tinrabbit aiso. .Tut where and how such a total abstainer from eggs, such a clearly non-producer of eggs as a rabbit, got mixed up In a nest of them the biographeix of neither the: hen nor the rabbit are able to say. But there he is, fiu there he persists ii; slaying, liowrer Inconsequent, irrelevant and Immaterial his presence may be. Myths u the Easter egg are more easily accounted for. The Ancient E S y Ptians, TersiaMS, (Jauls, (Ireeks and Komans saw in the egg an em blem of immortality. In It life lay dormant. An insensate thing, a mere object, it had the power to become a living being. To the early Christians the egg symbolized the resurrection. Bec:wise of this, and also because eggs were looked upon as meat, Roman Catholics of Italy. Spain ami France were formerly forbidden to eat eggs during Lent. After the fasting was over, eggs were the first meat to be eaten. Every Easter table held eggs dyed red, to represent the blood of Christ, and piled in pyramids at various points of vantage alt-ng the table. Before the eggs were broken they were blessed by the priest. A special blessing for the Easter eggs was given out by Pope Paul V, who sat in the papal chair from 10OÖ to 1021. This blessing, which is still used by many Human Catholics, is: "Bless, O Lord, we beseech thee, this thy gift of eggs, that It may become a wholesome sustenance of thy faithfid servants, eating it In thankfulness to thee on the morn of the resurrection of our Lord." (Ireek Catholics believe that eggs laid on (kmhI Friday have within them their own blessing, ami that he who eats them as his first food on Easter Sunday will be blessed throughout the year. They, too, hold that the egg is symbolical of the resurrection. But 11 of these eggs are the fruit of the hen, she that cackles nvt r her product, when every child believes that the rabbit is responsible for the Faster eggs. ejermany for a long time claimed that he wits the 0 KlVt mother of the Faster rabbit. She Faid that it happened, me time, that the children of a very poor peasant had been told that they could have no eggs at Easter time because their parents had no home and were too poor to buy a hen. The children grieved over this at rlrt, und then decided that they wtild atop grieving and pray. They pray, d for

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A. Why All Mankind Hails the Morn of the Resurrection Easter morning the most joyous of all the mornings of the year, the one great day of gladness, supreme above all others on the calendar, the Morn of the Resurrection. And why Is this the gladdest day of the year? Il is the gladdest of all days because It typifies the hope, that beyond the grave there is another life than this. It speaks the promise that we shall rise again from the dust of death, that we shall be reunited with those whom we have loved and lost, that we shall open our eyes in another world where there is no parting again, no sorrow, no loss, no pain. Compare this hope with all other hopes that man can have, and they sink into insignificance. If the sons of men believed that this life were the only life they could ever know, If they believed that the grave is the end and that when they were laid away with the dust from which they came there would be n awakening, not only would the dearest hope they could possibly have be taken then from them, but the world would then become a place unlit for habitation. Without the hope of resurrection from the grave man would surely sink at once to the low level of the beast. But that this is not his belief, and that man has. Instead, a firm and a full hope to live again, is what makes Faster the one great Joyous lay of all days. Easter eggs, prayed earnestly and fervently. On the n!ght before Faster they made a liest for the eggs they so confidently believed the morning would bring. When they awoke the next morning they ran to the nest, and there, sure enough, lay three lovely egcrs. and sitting back of them, very proud of himself, was a big whit1 rabbit, the very rabbit that had laid the ggs. But the Easier rabbit is far. far ! older than this tale, and the myths about the rabbit, many of them u.oociatlng the rabbit In one way or anotlier with eggs, are centuries older than the Faster festival. The Moon festival In China comes In the springtime nnd corresponds with Easier. It's a great holiday. Nobody works. Everybody puts on his best clothes and goes out for a general Jollification. The culmination of events comes on what is our Easter, which, as old-fashioned people will tell you. comes "on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the 'J2m of March." It Is on this night that Mth rabbit In the moon" is best seen. The Chi

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nese, in their Moon festival, pay homage to this rabbit. Their ancient religion, Taoism, taught them that this rabbit was the slave of genii who kept him everlastingly busy pounding herbs nnd drugs to make the ciixir of life. He squats in a cassia tree to do the pounding, and if you will look at the moon any Easter Sunday evening when the sky is clear there you'll see Br'er Rabbit pounding away. And when you see it, you will see a mixture of Taoist belief, East African mythology, southern negro folklore and early Christian legend The Japanese have a legend, doubtless passed over to them from India, that the gospel of the resurrection was first sent to the earth by the moon god, who used a rabbit as his messenger. The message given to the rabbit was this: "Like as I die and rise to life again, so shall you die and rise to life again." The rabbit, however, thinking It would be a good joke on the people of the earth, reversed this gospel: What he said to the people was : "Like as I die, and live no more, so shall ye all die and be no more alive." The people took this gospel very sorrowfully, which amused the rabbit, and he went back to the moon god and boasted of what he had done. The god was so infuriated with bis messenger that he threw a hatchet at him and split his Hp wide open, and that, if you would like to know, is why the rabbit's lip is slit. In certain parts of England, particularly nt Ilallaton, there was an old custom of celebrating Easter Monday with a "hare pie scramble" and "bottle kicking." This celebration began with a procession lending to the house of the rector of the parish and consisting of two men abreast, carrying sacks with cut-up pies Inside; three men abreast, two carrying wooden bottles filled with beer, and the third a large dummy bottle that was to be kicked about; one man, carrying a pole on which was fastened a hare In a sitting posture, nnd, last of all, a band of music. The band was followed by all the p ople of the parish who could walk. The dummy bottle was kicked Into the neighboring parish, where it was burned, or "drowned," after which bits of it were taken home as trophies by the people. The custom fell into disuse about 17;7. But other customs Jn which the hare figured were continued to a much later date, one having to do with th hunting of a hare on flood Friday, to be eaten on Easter day, the alternative being that "he who does not eat a hare must eat a red herring." At least one mythologlst has tried to account for the Faster rabbit in England by making him the creature of the Anglican goddess Eostre, whose name, according to Bede, was given to the month of April, which was called Estermonath. Grimm calls this goddess Ostara, "divinity of the radiant dawn, of upsprlnglng light." a 0

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