PEN-FRIENDS' CORNER

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 21 (Supplement)

PEN-FRIENDS' CORNER

NEWS OF OTHER LANDS

Peter knows that til of his little members are Interested In the outtoms and people of other lands and he hopes that all of you will help to make this "Penfrlends’ Corner" a splendid success by sending In your contributions from your penfrlend letters and so help to share your pleasures with other folk.

JAPANESE RELIGIONS Perhaps the most interesting of the religious feasts is the Feast of the Dead, which takes place in summer

and lasts for three days. All the spirts of those who have died during the proceeding year are supposed to rnme back at this time to bid a lon* last farewell to fhelr sorrowing frAends and relatives before they finally leave the earth. The tombs are brightly lit up with large lanterns so that the burial ground is a blaze of many coloured lights. Fires are lit on the hills, and rockets shoot up Into the bursting Into starry clusters, while the people eat and make merry while the spirits are still with them. Then on the third day and In the dark early hour* of the morning the long procession of lanterns may he seen to descend f.om the hills to the shore „f the bay dead must leave before the first ravs of the morning ,un are. shed T lnv boats laden with riee are then sent from the shore tied wtth many e-ol our . ed streamers and in It the spiriU ol the dead are supposed to reside.

A FAt'T.T Hiner : Walter, look at the ends of this sausage. Waiter. What's wrong with them, sir? Diner: They're very close together aren't theyj