A Traditional Halloween Celebration
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under Articles
This vintage article from 1922 describes an old-fashioned family gathering.
Halloween is a party occasion. It is a special night on the children’s calendar. You sigh and say to yourself that every day is a special day for them, and parties for children mean hard work for adults.
Quite so. But the home parties are the things [...]
Funeral Garlands
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under Articles
(For the Mirror.) The primitive Christians censured a practice prevalent among the Romans, of decorating a corpse, previous to interment or combustion, with garlands and flowers. Their reprehension extended also to a periodical custom of placing the “first-fruits of Flora” on their graves and tombs. Thus Anchises, in Dryden’s Virgil, Aeneid, book 6, says,
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