Richmond Palladium (Daily), 12 February 1904 — Page 2

EICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1904.

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T I SURVIVALS, AS A RULE, OF ANCIENT RITES AND CUSTOMS. "Loadou nrllrr' l'ossetiseii nn Exeeetllnel - Sinister Significance, and "IIoiisoololi" Orisinnletl In the Old Myth of the Minotaur's Labyrinth. It is a fact that English boys anil girls in their plays and pastimes are the unconscious keepers of the archaic rehires of our forbears. Children are instinctive conservatives. They play tha old games and repeat the old rhymes century after century with little if any variation. "Iilind man's buff," for example, a survival of the rites peculiar to the worship of Odin, the sightless deity, is played today exactly as it was played 2,0)0 years ago. So, too, is "tag." which was originally a fragment of a sacred pantomime or miracle play, portraying the old, old story of Diana and her nymphs. 1 In "London bridge is broken down" we are treated to the entire ritual of the foundation sacrifice, that widespread hideous custom which decreed that a living child must be sacrificed to the god of the structure ere it could be expected to stand firm. First, it will be remembered, the children urge alternative measures. "London bridge is broken down!" cry the two leaders, standing with uplifted hands clasped so as to form an arch, beneath which the other little players race as if in dread. "Build it up with bricks and mortar," is the reply. "Bricks and mortar will mold away." "Build it up with penny loaves, with gold and silver, set a man to watch all day, set a dog to bark all night," and the rest of it. Then, lastly the hands are unclasped, the "arch" falls, catching one of the players, preferably a little girl, in its mock descent, after which all the children shout in unison: "Hurrah! Hurrah! Now 'twill last for aye and a day, with a fair lady." An allied game is called "threading the needle." A chain of children pass under an arch formed by the uplifted Joined hands of two other children, one being eventually taken prisoner in the usual way. Sussex children say this "makes the wheat grow." French children cry in unison while racing under the arch: '-Oats, oats, oats! May the good God prosper you!" Here we get a relic of the immolation of the meriah, or sacred sacrificial victim, to the corn god of the ancients, a custom once everywhere prevalent, and continued until quite lately at Benin city, in India, and elsewhere. "Hopscotch" is an old game. Its germ was almost certainly the la' vrinth and j the well nigh u:il . . ,.il myth of the Minotaur. Aft"rv.-ard. 01 the introduc.tion of Christianity, the labyrinth was 'abandoned, to bo rrp':",cd by the ground plan of t hv basilica, the earliest Christian church. Tlio pk:ors divided it in seven parts, as they believed hea'ci to be divided, and placed paradh-o i:i the position of the altar, the inner sanctum of their earthly church. The whole game came then to represent the progress of the soul from oanh to heaven through various intermediate states, the name given to the last "court" being invariably "parad..:'" or a equivalent. Well woi p. one of th earliest and most wide-i -.'ad of religious cults, is symbolized in many games, notably .in the one where- the children sing: ! m. Draw a i -:.'A of water Fur a lady's daughter. The seesaw movement of the players -.at the beginning of this .ancient and still popular game is intended to represent the raising of the water from the well. Next is announced the arrival of the devotee, "my lady's daughter," collecting flowers for decking the well (shrine), making a cake for presentation to the god (or goddess) of the well, offerings of jewelry, and so on. It can be by no mere chance that a game played by rustic village children today duplicates step by step each detail of the ritual of the primitive well worshipers. ' It is the same with almost all the genuine old children's games. Everywhere can be traced degenerate, fragmentaiy survivals of the social life, ceremonies and religious practices of our early ancestors. "Here we go round the mulberry bush," for instance, is a survival of tree worship. "Cat cradle." played practically by all savage and civilized peoples the world over, has its hidden significance of LorrM rl It Is a commonplace, the important part played in black magic- by string, cords and knots! But it is the so called matrimonial games that throw tin? rr.ot lurid light on the social manners and customs of our prehistoric savage forefathers. "Here we come gathering nuts in May" symbolizes that earliest form of sexual union, marriage by capture. In this game, as played to this very day oa many a British village green, there enters absolutely no ( lenient of love or courtship. The object of each male child is to obtain possession of a female child by brute strength, and he always tries his luck or his skill "on a cold and frosty morning," of course. In those dim, faraway days there were no roads. Across the frozen morasses into the wildest recesses of the BWijnmv "forest "-'inevnJ" he could Do not errlpe nor irritate the alimentary canal. They act yently yet proiuptly, cleanse effectually and Sold by all druggists. 25 cents.

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seems either rea. green or gray to them. Others are red-green blind, and all things appear to them to be yellow, blue or gray of various shades, and others again perceive no distinction of color at all, but the whole world wears an unchanging aspect of dull gray. "To these last a visit to a picture gallery would reveal merely a collection of engravings or photographs. Hut the two former have the compensation of seeing their own two colors much more brightly than ordinary people. "The color blind do extraordinary things at times. An officer of the navy went one day to buy material for a coat, vest and trousers. He bought a blue coat and red trousers, believing them of the same color. A British admiral painted a landscape and was very proud of his performance, but he made the tree red, thinking it the same color as green. When he purchased a pair of trousers he chose green ones, suspecting them to be brown. "An architect's pupil, being directed to copy the picture of a brown house, made the house green, the sky scarlet and the roses blue. "A post office clerk was always short in his accounts because he could not distinguish the different colored stamps, and a sedate Quaker has been known to buy a green coat for himself and a red gown for his wife, thinking they were both brown. "If you see a man in the street with a preposterous display of colors, charitably believe him to be one of the color blind. "Just why the eyes of women are less defective in the matter of distinguishing colors than those of men is one of the things in nature that are unexplained. The construction is the same, yet woman's superiority in matching colors has always been recognized even where man has had the advantage of long experience." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

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