"ALL SOULS' DAY."

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11496, 31 January 1903, Page 7

"ALL SOULS' DAY."

Many girls who sing- Laeaen'3 pathetic tsong, "All Soak' Day," have only the vaguest idea of what the meaning of it ia. It nf«m to ihe Continental oustom of keeping up, on tie Ist of DJovember, the "Jour den Morts." In Paris on that day many thousands assemble in the cemeteries to place flowers on the graves of their dead relatives and friends. Oanceoroing last All Souls' Day, a lady ■wrote:—"On this day half the population Been* to have either gone into mourning ot to be carrying bouquets and wreaths of flwrem to the barying-grounds. Fere Lacbatee is a great attraction to those who hay« no tombs < f their own. to care for, bat like to fall in with the prevailing sentiment, and this crowded city of the dead, with its three million silent inhabitant*, has been Quite animated oil day. The last resting places of celebritiei axe alwaj* adorned with flower* by •dniJrtt*, Ey*q tiu

Heioise and Abelard cult ia still kept up. There is a boaq&et aa Sarah Bernhardfc'e tomb, whiujuer, it m eaid, the actress canwe oux ,a year to moralise on the emptiness of njeoe woxfcEty fame. The etogle word ■Berahawtt' is carved in very l»rg« letters cm the stone."