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McCORMICfe MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936 J W* . • a ^ , its m M i «ni, >: ^*T r''^" Ring out the bells, beloved, the joyous Easter bells, Celestial harmony along their cadence rolls and swells. The blessed Christ is risen in the hearts that throb and! thrill Responsive to Love's law wherein we may all laws fulfill. —ANNIE L. MUZZEY (Jmjjlmti at ((Eastertide M UCH has been related of the spiritual observances of merry -old England at the Eastertide, and too little told of -the culinary achievements that tickled the palates of peasants and courtiers alike on that great feast day, writes Marion Butler in the Chicago Tribune. Not only were these Easter dishes intriguing In appearance and taste, but they were made doubly fascinating by folk ceremonies that attended them. Nearly every day of the old Eng lish Easter week had Us own special dish and unusual practices to go along with It. Shrove Tuesday was, and still is, in some sections, known as “Pancake day.” Although the term “shrove” was originally derived from the Anglo-Saxon “scrifan,” meaning to levy a penance, the English epi cures evidently invented a most de lightful way of paying up, for on this day it became traditional for every family to bake thick, mealy pan cakes, flavored with sherry, and serve them sizzling hot for breakfast. Maundy Thursday was the day on which the kings of England used to distribute baskets of food, known as “maunds,” to the poor. These were especially coveted for the fine, white bread that they contained, loaves such as those being rare delicacies of that time. James II was the last sov ereign to perform this ancient cere mony with all the elaborate church rites that attended it. Good Friday fairly abounds In curi ous legends and customs connected with hot cross buns. In the early hours of Good Friday morning, Eng lishmen used to be abruptly torn from their pleasant slumbers by the great hue and cry of the bun vendors, who paraded the twisting, narrow streets of the towns, pushing their unwieldy bun carts before them, and chanting from dawn to dusk the familiar, old refrain: “Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny! Hot cross buns I” Since modern warming contrivances were unknown in those days, these vendors had a difficult time keeping EGGS AT EASTER T HE use of eggs at Blaster time follows a custom of greatest an tiquity, the egg having been con sidered in widely separated pre Christian mythologies as the sym bol of resurrection. [. It is probable that the Christian church adopted and consecfafed ah earlier custom. The egg is generally regarded as the symbol of spring, life ainl fe cundity of? nature; ./ • . „ . their wares hot. They carried them in large wicker baskets, such as 'we still use on wash days here. The buns were placed in layers of flannel to keep them warm, and then covered over with an outer cloth of white or green. It Is related that the bun vendors of old were also extremely cautious in the manner in which they handed out the buns to customers, permitting only one hand to slide gin gerly beneath the covers In drawing oat! their wares, thus allowing only the smallest possible breath of air to pene trate inside. The hot cross buns of yesteryears were much more crisp and crunchy than our softer modern ones. They also were more highly flavored with spices, and had a sticky coating of browned sugar. So favorite a dainty did these old pastries become with the English, that more than two hundred years ago in Chelsea, two royal bun houses sprang up, waging the bitterest of -“bun feuds” over the all-important question of which baked the best buns? Each contended that the English kings and queens, themselves, patron ized its house. One took the name of Chelsea Bun House, and the other that of the Real Old Original Chelsea Bun House. Popular taste seemed to shift, at intervals, from one to the other. Both occupied large, frame build ings with covered counters, stretching along their fronts. •People used to travel miles on foot and horseback, getting up at the first flush of dawn on Good Friday morning, to eat fresh hot cross buns there, or to buy them in square, black boxes to take back home. Although the Christian sign of the cross has been imprinted upon these hot cross buns for many centuries v •rt:o fciVSO. 1 :u “Hot Cross Buns! One a Penny, Two a Penny! Hot Cross Buns!” now, they were really products of pre Christian times! Egyptian priests used to sell buns in front of their tern pies, compiling small fortunes from these strange “admission tickets.” In primitive England, pagan tribes rudely mixed ceremonial buns of coarse grain and water as an offering to the coming of the spring sun, an event which they celebrated at wild festivals. With the coming of Chris tianity, the clergy waged warfare against this pagan practice, but met with such, scant success that they evidently decided to make the best of a bad bargain by converting the buns into Christian symbols through the holy mark of the cross. Another ..strange kind of bread, baked, by old English cooks on Goo.1 .Friday, .was a loaf of very hard biscuit Stone from WMcIi Christ Ascended Into Heaven h, TinMMWiMWMiiam—HWitv f.i v.stessBggaB dough, having the sign of the cross perforated in it. The peasants care fully hung these loaves from their cottage roofs, leaving them there until Good Friday morning of the following year as special talismans to protect their homes from fire. In the dark, superstitious days prior to modern medicine, to these curious loaves were attributed the healing powers of the family doctor of modern times. Whenever an illness fell upon them, these devout peasants of long ago would dissolve small bits of the bread in water, and drink it with as much faith in its curative qualities as we would have in the scientifically pre scribed medicine or tonic of today! The Egg Is Pagan Not many people realize that the word Easter, although the name of a Christian festival, is a survival of paganism, says Tit-Bits Magazine. It takes its name from Eostre, the pagan goddess, who was identified with the Aurora Borealis, the “rising light of day and spring.” Norsemen welcomed her annually in a festival of celebra tion featuring an egg and a rabbit as symbols of fecundity. The survival of this custom is our present Easter egg, tinted in imitation of the quiver ing beams of the Aurora Borealis. As the Christian festival coincides with the period of the pagan one, and there is a certain beautiful similarity between them, the name lias naturally been retained. DARKNESS OF CRUCIFIXION T HE “darkness over all the earth” at the time of the cruci fixion could not have been caused by an eclipse of the sun for the rea son that it occurred just after the passover, at the time of full moon, and an eclipse can only occur when the moon is between us and the sun, or at the tithe cf»IH*d’“thp dark of the i moon." ★★★★★★★★★ wtrtrinrmrtrir f STAR ! I DUST 1 ovie • Radi 10 Mae West ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE ★★★ W HEN Mae West’s efTects were 'moved off the Para mount lot, a fashionable gallery of Hollywood celebrities watched the strong men carry her furniture out to a red moving van. The list of onlookers included Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie and Herbert Marshall. Mae. who voluntarily relin quished her contract, was not there. She will begin a new picture for Columbia which is headed by Emanuel Cohen, who was her boss at Paramount when she made her first film hit She Is to receive $300,000 for this picture. Mae was represented at the moving party by Jim Timony, her manager, who checked over the list of furnish ings from her dressing room which were moved to the new studio. These Included a piano, a desk, a divan, a chair and an oil painting of Mae. -—*— A special automobile that will speed more than three miles a minute is being built for M-G-M for use in its new pic ture “Speed.” It is expected that it will be sent out on the road for pub licity purposes when the picture is fin ished. The producers promise that it will not be driven at anywhere near its maximum speed. —*— Grace Moore has never sung the aria “Woman Is Fickle” in Rigoletto, for that Is the tenor’s Job, but It might be a theme song for her off-again, on- again act with the movies. After an nounclng that she was through, she says she has changed her mind and is going to make some more pictures at Columbia. She has made one important reservation, though. No more scenes where she is singing while milking a cow. . —■¥— Richard Arlen Is on his way to Eng land where he will make a picture for Gaumont-British. Accompanying Dick are Joby and little Rickey. When hli English hitch Is over, Dick will returc to Hollywood to go to work for Twen- entieth Century-Fox, with whom he re cently signed a contract to make three pictures. Anita Louise, whose blond beauty has captured many hearts, will be cast for the feminine lead in Warner' Brothers new picture, “The Charge of the Light Brigade ” This, it Is said, is the biggest film opportunity Anita has yet beer given. Errol Flynn, who swept to star dom in “Captain Blood,” will play oppa site her. —-k— Hard luck has dogged the footsteps of many a movie star of yesteryear but It has nipped rather constantly al the heels of Alice Lake. She Is now the ward of the Film Welfare league In St. Vincent’s hospital. Fifteen years ago/she was in the big money and had an Immense following. Recently when brought into court and her plight re vealed, she said she could not even gel work as an extra. She still gets fan letters, however. —k— The success which has followed David O. Selznick’s ventures In reviv ing classics of litera ture has won him a well-deserved acclaim. “Little Lord Fauntle- roy,” in which young Freddie Bartholomew, the English star. Is featured, has attracted about as much atten tion as “David Copper- field,” which endeared Selznick to the Dick ens fans of America and abroad. Faithful adherence to the story itself in the talkie ver sion was responsible for much of its «iTectiveness. —-k— Lucien Littlefield, co-author of the screen version of “Early to Bed,” has joined the cast which already includes Charles Buggies and Mary Boland. The picture, originally called: “Where Am I?” is a farce detailing the life and love of a clerk in a glass-eye factory. Buggies plays the role of the clerk who is engaged to Mary Boland. The picture develops a kick when the down trodden Buggies goes berserk, quits his job and successfully establishes a rival glass-eye company. —k— ODDS AND ENDS . . . Katherine Hep, burn has so many pets her home resem bles i menagerie, what with cocker span iels, canaries, a monkey, a Siamese cat and a poodle . . . Robert Montgomery's face is adorned with a mustache for the first time in a new picture . . . Doug Fairbanks, Jr., has sailed for Europe . . . Carole Lom bard was ill recently with a throat ailment that affected her voice . . . Al Jolson, Jr., recently celebrated his first birthday; ti'.re was a party, a cake, one candle and all the other trimmings . . . It is reported that Gary Cooper and wife will return from Bermuda a week earlier than they expected . . . They are still looking for a successor to the beloved ^arie Dressier . . . “Captain Mood” recently had its npeniUg 'in Belfast, Ireland, with Errol Flynn's father and mother in the audience . .© Western Newapajxjr Union. Freddie Bartholomew One of America’s Seven Wonders. South Carolina Feature. All Americans are familiar with Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon and most of the other Seven Won ders described by Baedeker. One of the most beautiful of these Won ders, however, Is known to compara tively few of our millions of citi zens. This is the famous Magnolia and Middleton Gardens near Charles ton and Summerville, South Caro lina. Up the winding Ashley River, these two fairy gardens, both in ternationally famous, have been the mecca for flower lovers for over 225 years. With their hundreds of acres, landscaped and planted by scores of slaves working through two decades, they present a veritable dreamland. Delicate wistarias come to the ground from 75 to 100 feet high. In addition, dogwood, laurel, bay, spirea, syringa, and jessamine abound, with cherry, holly and cedar trees. Most lovely of all, however, are the azaleas which in the village of Summerville and in the nearby Magnolia and Middleton Gardens form a colorful spectacle, culminat ing in “Azalea Week” usually the latter part of March, which brings thousands of spectators by special trains or in private parties. Near Summerville are also the Cypress Gardens where one is poled by guides through an impenetrable water forest of giant cypress trees. These gardens are at their very best from February through April. In Summerville, surrounding the famous Pine Forest Inn, once more open to the public, also are gardens of Azaleas and Wisteria covering many acres. It was to Pine Forest Inn that Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft came during their administrations when they visited the beautiful gardens. Tibet, Land of Mystery and Terror for Natives Sinister tales of sorcery reach us from the East, where every thought, every action Is governed by centuries of Ingrained supersti tion. But none equals the sheer horror of the mystic rites prac ticed by those primitive people who live on the high, snow-bound table land of Tibet, says a writer In An swers Magazine. In the land of the Lamas a cruel, austere religion exercises the most terrorizing influence over Its devotees. Fear of ghosts and de mons haunt every devout mind. Some go mad or die of terror dur ing frightful ceremonies. Like many uncivilized peoples, the Tibetans live at the mercy of their own vivid and uncontrollable Imaginations. Grotesque and fear some hallucinations — monstrous shapes and phantoms — confront the credulous, half-crazed Tibetans at every turn. Their terrors assume reality in their own minds, till, hypnotized by their fears, they are unable to distinguish fact from fancy. They liev In a nightmare world peopled by specters and demons. Among religious ascetics, the cer emony of initiation to holiness actually consists of Invoking these ghastly fantasies until the novice is hysterical with fear. Lovely Places of Scotia All the wild and lovely places of Scotia are full of memories. Duns- core, which readers of “Red Gaunt let” will recall. Is near the ruined tower of Grierson of Lag, and the scene of Wandering Willie’s tale; of the mounds and stones of Sten- nis, where Norse gods were wor shiped and are buried, of the Cas tle of Forres on the journey from Elgin to Inverness where took place the murder of the king Immortal ized in “Macbeth,” whose keep goes back to prehistoric days, and then there is little Dulce Cor Ab bey in the country near Dumfries, fragrant with the memories of Lady Devogilla, mother of Balliol, and one of the loveliest figures In Scottish romance. Scotland teems with such haunts. Contents of Whisky Whisky is 99.75 per cent ethyl alcohol and water, says Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. The remaining quarter of one per cent Is a complex mixture which supplies smoothness, flavor, and potability. A mixture of grain alcohol and wa ter is extremely irritating to the sensory nerves of the mouth; there fore this small fraction serves as a palliative for the astringent mix ture so that It can pass easily Into the stomach. The bouquet and mel lowness characteristics of whiskies rest solely In the composition of these minute quantities of organic “impurities” In ethyl alcohol and water. “Thoroughbred,” “Full Blooded” The terms, “thoroughbred” and “full-blooded,” are often mistak enly used in place of the term, “purebred.” Strictly speak ing, Thoroughbred Is the name of a breed of light racing horses. A purebred animal is a member of some particular breed and is regis tered or eligible to registry in the herd book of that breed. A pure bred animal usually possesses a dis tinctive and useful type which It has the power to transmit to Its off spring, because it Is backed by a long line of ancestors of -the same type. >411 ylround ptf /fie House f§ To bring out the brilliancy of cut glass, add ammonia to the water In which it is to be rinsed. * * * When sconring with wire wool use a snap clothespin to hold wool, this saving your hands. * * * • Tie a little bow of bright colored ribbon on the handles of the scissors and they can be quickly found in the sewing basket. * * • Lard used in deep fat frying should be strained through cheesecloth after use to remove the food parti cles which accumulate in the kettle. * * * Oysters have a better flavor If not overcooked. They may be rolled In fine cracker crumbs, dipped in egg, rolled again in crumbs and fried in deep fat at 380 Fahrenheit. * * * Cut flowers will keep fresh much longer if removed from the table after each meal and placed In the refrigerator. 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