Strange to tell, the familiar term of Lent has nothing in its origin significant of fasting. It is derived from the Saxon term— Lengthen-tide, or spring—the time when each successive day steals a few minutes from its night. In English literature we have repeated allusions to Jack-o'-Lent, a sort of puppet, generally personated as a lean and ragged scarecrow, whioh boys jeered and threw stones at, muoh as the Guy Fawkes of later days is treated.
A very curious custom in Seoul is the law whioh makes it obligatory for every man to retire to hia home when the huge bronze bell of the city has proclaimed it to be the hour of sunset and the time for closing the gates. No man is allowed in the streets after that hour under pain of a flogging ; but the women are allowed to go about and to visit their friends. However, as tigers frequently scramble over the oity walla at night, and prowl about looking for food, the privilege ia not much valued by the fair sex,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5278, 7 June 1895, Page 3
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