Weekly Chemawa American., April 21, 1911, Page 12, Image 12

THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
J aejroemie icems J
The Chemawa cows are now enjoying
green feed.
We all enjoyed the social las: Thurs­
day evening.
Fred Grant went to Salem last week
to visit his friend.
Mr. Mudge has a new 35-calibre auto­
matic Remington rifle.
A number of Chemawa people attend­
ed church in Salem on Easter Sunday.
On Sunday all of the Bible class girls
went to the woods and had a very good
meeting.
Minerva Mecum, who has been teach­
ing the primary pupil-, is now sewing
for herself.
Joe Bittles is the smallest boy on the
blacksmith detail and he is doing excel­
lent work.
Tomorrow the Mute School team are
going to have a baseball game with the
second team here.
Louise Stewart of the junior class is
now teaching the primary grade in the
afternoons. We wish her success.
Jessie Logan and Mattie Henry are
making themselves some very pretty
waist8, which they mean to finish next
week.
Miss Brown and Mrs. Woods took
some of the girls out for a walk on Sun­
day afternoon and we enjoyed our walk
very much.
Miss Leader took five girls to the
woods to pick flowers on Sunday. They
enjoyed the walk very much, and
brought large bouquets of maple blos­
soms home for the chapel.
The relay runners have now got their
training table and we expect them to
give us some good time, and to lead the
Portland Y. M. C. A. by a larger margin
than ever before.
SUPERSTITIONS OF EASTER.
Continued from page 1.)
These “one penny, two penny, hot
cross buns,” h ive a more ancient origin
than is generally supposed. The name
itself is taken from the Greek name of
a certain cake which the ancients gave
as an offering to the gods. In the bibli­
cal period the prophet Jere niah had oc­
casion to notice the offering, when he
saw the idolatry of the Jewish women
at Pathros, Egypt.
One of the mod ancient and universal
of all superstitions attaching to Easter
day was that of the dancing sun. At first
it was believed the sun danced over the
general joy at the renewal of nature's life
at this season of the year. Later it
danced over the resurrection of Christ.
Many centuries ago on Easter d.«y people
arose early and repaired to the fields to
view this dancing sun.
In certain countries people had a wav
of observing the sun at his antics that
made him appear more playful than
ever. Bv viewing it as it rose through
the morning vapor, or watching its re­
flecting in a stream or a pail of water,
they could strengthen the illusion.
The illusion regarding the dancing
sun is still followed, since the maid ms
of Devonshire today tise early in the
morning of Easter for no other than
this identical purpose. Moreover, these
extraordinary maidens see more than
the mere dancing of the sun. Their
power of vision is so great that they can
discover a lamb and a flag in the center
ot the disk.— Ex.