The Durham recorder. [volume], April 06, 1909, Image 4

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I W. H. M'NN, Manager. Durham, N. C.
The Easter
Hare..
He Should Not Be Confused
With the Common
Rabbit
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0 the learned men
who can tell
without stop
ping to count
Just how many
a a a s a g e 8 It
takes to reach
the moon It's as
p 1 a 1 n . as the
noonday snn
why the hare
comes at Eas
terwlth a wheel
barrow full of
eggs. But for
you and me,
who couldn't
build up a dinosaur from a decayed
tooth In another million years and Who
mix up history with historical novels.
a little time is required to disentangle
the truth from the tradition. , ,
Now, be sure not to fall Into the un
scientific error of confusing the sacred
hare with his bumble American cous
in, "Br'er Rabbit" The rabbit is all
well enough In his way, and without
him we shouldn't have Uncle Remus,
perhaps, and a lot of people would
have to take out accident Insurance
Instead of prowling around graveyards
In the dark of the moon.
But the rabbit Is not the hare, and
be has nothing to do with Easter.
There are no hares in the east and
south, and on the plains they insult
the American hare by calling him a
Jack or Jackass rabbit.
This distinction between the hare
and the undersized rabbit is really im
portant, and chiefly because the hare
burrows in the ground, "while the hare
makes forms of grass fur bis habita
tion. . ' -.
It Is Germany from which we have
borrowed the tradition of the Easter
hare, who is quite as important, a fig
ure in his way in the fatherland as is
St Nicholas himself at Christmas.
Where did the Germans get the hare
myth? To determine that yon would
have to make a pretty long excursion
into the past And perhaps in the end
it would be "up to" the sphinx to an
swer yon. -
For It is a fact, even If it is a fable,
too, that the moon and the hare and
Easter, likewise the Easter egg, are all
dependent the one upon the other and
have been s!nce the time when Eastre.
the Saxon goddess of the east gave her
name to our Christian festival. Now.
you may think, with your limited
knowledge of Egyptology, that the
Egyptians had no language other than
the queer signs you may see today
transcribed from obelisks, but you are
mistaken. Those hieroglyphics were
perhaps merely stenographic notes dic
tated by Osiris to Isia and afterward
transcribed in the cuneiform tablets.
With the lapse of ages some of them
have grown so "cold" that the best
handwriting experts of today cannot
decipher them. But In the everyday
language of the Nile region the equiva
lent of bare is "un," which in English
Is "open." "to open." "the opener;"
also the hare has been from remote
times a symbol for the moon.
The hare is a nocturnal animal, and
the young of the hare, unlike rabbits.
are born with their eyes open and are
fabled never to close them. As a mat
ter of fact rather than of fable, the
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hare's eyes are m situated on the sides
of It head that It can see all around
You never heard a hart make that old
sneering excuse for carelessness. "You
might think I bad eye, in the bik of
my bend." To all Intent arid parpofte
the bare has.
Well, then, to make It quite clear,
"un" is bare, or "open," and the moon
Is "the open eyed watcher of the skies
t rilcht" But that isn't all. The
Egyptians, being a people of few, be
cause difficult words, made Mu" do
duty for "period" too. Thus the hare,
being never comatose, "became the
type of periodicity, human and lunar,
and as an opener became associated
with the opening of the new year at
Easter." Finally it came ti be con
Dected In the popular 'mind with the
egg broken to signify the opening of
the year. "And there yon areT ex
claims triumphantly the enthusiasts
rietitlst to whom w are indebted t
!bl Information.
Ia Germany, if little flans and G relet
re good, the white bare steal softly
Into the house on Easter eve, when
verylwdy Is sleeping, srwl loaves In
the nook rfid corners ttifiny bright t.v
p.r"1 fg-n fur ill- "klr-flerklrn." l;i
tla u.or;.: t!ie ihll!ien ami lhe
parents hunt for these eggs amid great
excitement. In Swabla and Hesse chil
dren are actually sent to the hare's
nest in search of eggs. Mannhardt
goes still further, suylng that the hare
Is reputed to be a fire and soul brlnger
and that children are supposed to be
procured from the nests. It would
seem, however, that the stork has
largely usurped this function, which
some persons will consider fortunate in
view of the immense number of eggs
laid by the hare. !
The hare myth has penetrated also
to England, and it is written: "In
Warwickshire, at " ColeshilU if the
young men of the parish can catch a
hare and bring it to tbe parson before
10 o'clock in the morning of Easter
Monday (the moon day), he is bound to
give them a calfs head. 100 eggs and
a groat, tbe calf's head being probably
a survival of the worship f Baal or
the tin as the golden calf." '
The hare myth Is of comparative re
cent adoption In this country. Not un
til the early sixties did the Presbyte
rians take note of tbe day. And New
England was the Inst section of our
country to bend or unbend la the di
rection of the Easter celebration.
So whether your Easter egg be la I'd
by hen or hare Is determined wholly
upon what creed you profess. If you
are a doughty Scotchman .or his de
scendant, a blue Presbyterian, your
Easter egg was doubtless laid by a
barnyard hen in the round of her daily
household duties and bought at the
corner grocery, for tuere Is no record
of tbe timorous bare ever having en-
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tered the nursery of that reverend and
austere gentleman. John Knox. But if
you come from the vaterland, where
the Easter hare is quite as Important
a personage as Der Krtss K Tingle,
then you know that your Easter egg
was brought from far, far off, some
where in tbe tall grass, and laid be
neath your pillow or, perchance, on tbe
mantelpiece by. none other than tbe
Ceet white bare.
Easter Fact.
Tbe observance of Easter was not
Instituted until some 10 years after
the death of Christ The name was
taken from tbe ancient Anglo-Saxon
goddess of spring, Ostern, or Eastre.
whose festival was celebrated about
the time of the Christian Easter. No
celebration waa arranged by the Jew
ish Christians at all, but on tbe 14th
day of the month, immediately follow
ing the vernal equinox, which was tbe
day on which the old JewUb feast of
the Psssover was celebrated, the Jew
ish Christians celebrated, tbe death of
Christ to them tbe paschal lamb,
Chrlt having died, according to their
chronology, on the date of tbe cele
bration of the Jewish I'awover. The
celebration of tbe Jewish Christians
wss therefore for the death and not
the resurrection of Christ The gen
tile Christians, however, were not
bound by any of the Jewish traditions.
Sunday being tbe Iinl's day to them,
they therefore celebrated the resur
rection of Christ on the Sunday follow
ing tbe lltb day of the moon of March,
the day on which Christ died. The
Jewish Christians thus celebrated tbe
Hth day of the month. Irrespective of
the day of the week, and the gentile
Christians celebrated a Sunday, Irre
spective of the day of the month. If
this eon fusion had, not licen resolved
by the proper ecclesiastical authori
ties we might have leen celebrating
the day at tbe present time according
to our Individual religious predilec
tions. Tbe early church was torn with bit
ter dissensions regarding this conflfrt
of custom as to the celebration of
Easter. Various attempts were made
to fix a stable day whlrh would be ob
served by the church as a whole, but
they all failed. Finally, at the council
of Nice. A. P. 82T., the question was
settled once for all, and the date now
obierved throughout the Christian
world was established. Enster day
was then flei as the first Sunday aft
er that fn moon whlrh happens on
or net after March 21. If the full
moon happen on a Sunday the follow
ing Sunday I Easter.
In France the year began with
Easter Sunday nntll the year 13C4. the
date of Shakespeare birth, when
Charles IX. fixed Jan. 1 a the first
day of the year.
Castse Cuttem.
In ntKsIa It Is .considered no rrlm
to b found intoxicated during Easter
week, even the policemen being often
under Ihe mellowing Influence of
vodka.
Egg racing I a favorite amusement
of Russian, German and French chil
dren. The egg are rolled down a bin,
the prlM going to the child who egg
roll tbe greatest number of race
without damage to It shell. Io Oer
tnsny track are made of twigs, down
which each egg may roll without Inter
ferenre from any other one, and th
ly whose g arrives unbroken at Ihe
foot of the hill Collects toll from 111
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clothes, and the prices will please
also. Our reputation for having
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nishings is established and if you
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our spring styles, we know we
can please you. ' "
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Colored Lawns 8, 10 and 15 cents.
Fine Line Woolen Dress Goods
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Soft Silks,' all the New Spring Colors
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Fine Val Laces 5 and 10 cents. ,
Best Percals 8, 10 and 12 1-2 cents.
Linen Finish 10, 12 1-2 and 15 cents.
Dress Linens, colored with assorted
stripes 12 1-2, 15 and 25 cents.
Best yard wide Sea Island 5 1-4 cents.
New Dutch Colors 10 and 25 cents. '
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