The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1947, Page 4

‘ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Old Easter Customs Live ~ (Continued From Page One) —there is no difficulty in finding plenty of participants for the ceremonies. The Tyrolean farmers of long ago invented a number of de- vices for getting their children up early in the morning. One of these, employed with considerable gusto, is that on Palm Sun- day the last at table for breakfast is dubbed “Palm-donkey.” In mid-morning the family goes to church. The youngest,! On _|No Caddy? ‘Try Golfing With These LOCKING DEVICE § seven-year-old Johannes, carries his. own special “palm”, made| %& in Alpine style of a bunch of long sticks topped with a berib- boned bouquet of pussy-willow, in which are nestled fruits and cookies to be eaten after church. Thursday before Easter is dedicated to welcoming back the green grass and leaves and vegetables. The family still calls it Green Thursday. There is always a soup made.of seven green herbs, (chicory, sorrel, dandelion greens, watercress, lettuce, es- carole and parsley), and for lunch creamed spinach with fried eggs. eggs, one of which will be kept in the house all year to protect it from lightning, and another plowed into the first furrow to bring a rich harvest. Eggs laid on Good Friday are good-luck pieces, too. When Johannes went to school for the first time he carried with him a Good Friday egg on which his mother had painted, in her very best script, all the letters of the alphabet to make a youngster learn quickly. . LAST SUPPER OBSERVED The evening meal on Green Thursday is a commemoration . of the Last Supper. The family dresses in somber clothing. Each drinks a cup of wine and eats a piece of bread while listening to the Biblical account of the Apostles’ last meal with their Master. The main dish is a special roast of lamb, in memory of the sacrificial Lamb of God. There are little cakes called ‘‘Brezeln”, Johannes watches eagerly for the laying of Green Thursday made in the shape of the letter “B” to symbolize the bonds in| 7 which Christ was held after His betrayal. After dinner, the Trapps do not go to bed, but stay awake all night, praying and singing hymns, “to keep Him company in prison.” On Good Friday, members of the family speak only when absolutely necessary; and even the church bell is stilled. The day is devoted to solitary prayer and meditation. There are only two scanty meals—a luncheon of cream soup, and a sup- per of water and ‘‘Kreuzbrote,” little buns with crosses marked out on top. ; P EASTER FINERY BROUGHT OUT _ _ Following the long Good Friday vigil; Holy Saturday is a welcome day of rejoicing in the coming resurrection. The seven comely sisters are busy decorating house and chapel with flow- ers and greenery. All fire is extinguished, to betoken the hours when the Light of the World4%———__ was eclipsed by death. ft chine, | evening, come rain or shine, the Trapps deck themselves out! P ostwar Tour Ists for the id time - cog new | A ‘ I I di spring finery and straw hats. Suervone in the momen ATIive in indla rises before sunrise on Easter | morning. The four elder daugh- | NEW DELHI—(AP).—Ira_ H. ters go to a woodland sprina/ Morse and his wife have reached to carry home “Easter water.” New Delhi to be among the first Each pitcher must be brimfull, |tourists who have come to India and if not a drop of water is; . th spilled the bearer may expect |S!mce the war. to be married before the follow-! Mr. and Mrs. Morse are touring ing Easter. ipartly for fun and partly to col- hen there are the songs at jlect specimens for their museum Easter services, lighted by the at Warren, New Hampshire. At glow of numerous" tapers re-'an age when most people would kindled with “new ‘i fire. Each !welcome sitting around home, lights a candle of his own from Morse, who is about 60, and white the tall: Pascal candle at the|haired, and his wife slightly altar, and carries it back to the : j © ' younger, have been through Egypt hquse ‘to re-light the | fire | in land will go from here to Ceylon. hearth, lamps and cookstove. In India they are colleeting brass _ Baskets of bread, eggs and j and ivory and.in Ceylon will get (salt are blessed in the Easter ‘ebony objects. service, and as the happy fam- ily walks down the mountain- —) side to the farmhouse, they watch to see the rising sun leap three times for joy, as Tyro- lean legend says it does every Easter morning. Mother and sisters plunge in- to preparations for the el which will bredk the forty-dayi A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. fast of Lent—a real feast, with | Charles Clawson, 21-1 Poinciana a big ham, mounds of many- | Place, at 4:27 p. m., April 1. The colored boiled eggs, and a cake | child weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce baked in a mould to form the ~ birth. figure of an Easter lamb. Meanwhile, Johannes, like any other American boy, looks | ; for the eggs the Easter rabbit} A son was born at 10 p. ‘has hidden for him. The eggs! April 1 to Mr. and Mrs. are decorated with elaborate | Harris, 720 Waddell avenue. The designs in the Salzburg peasant | child, which has been- named ne Son To Clawsons Son To Harrises M.,/the Army, don’t you? W. Curry |was very civil. AP Newsteatures . OS ANGELES. — There’s a new golf club combining driver, mid-iron, mashie, nib- lick, chipper and putter. Designed to ease the load on the backs of caddie-less golfers, the club is the equivalent of a matched set of six clubs, the manufacturer claims. An adjustable shaft and two replacement clubheads make up the Trija. The brain child of Dr. J. J. Jakosky, scientist, engineer and amateur « golfer, the club comes in two. models, one of which may be dismantled, and carried in a traveling bag. The iength of the club may be changed automatically, longer for driver and mid-iron, medium for mashie and niblick, and short for chipper and putter. . One clubhead has two sockets. In one socket the club may be either a driver or a midiron, de- pending on how the locking de- vice at the end of the shaft.is:in- serted into the clubhead. In thé other socket of the first head, the club is either a puttér or chipper. The second head is either a mashie or a niblick. The player does not have to adjust the heads, since the clubhead angle is fixed automatically. ~ Telling Secrets The Major—You know, I have not s€en your husband since he returned to civil life. The Ex-Captain’s Wife — You mean since he was released from He never Julius Caesar was once cag- tradition, hand-painted by his) William Hunt Harris, 111, weigh-| tured by priates in the Aegan sister Martina. The, season's festivities end on Easter Monday, with the children's sport of egg-rolling. | ‘Johannes and his pigtailed sis- | ters, Rosemary and Eleanore, | share with their new American | friends from neighboring: farms | this old Austrian game. The! youngsters build)a barrier of| soft dirt and take turns rolling! their eqgs downhill against it. ! The owner of an egg which hits | another and cracks it is allow- | ed to kesp both. 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