【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 , . She had been told that Egyptian children used to roll eggs against the pyramids so she invited the children of Washington to roll hardboiled eggs down the hilly lawn of the new Capitol building! The custom continued, except for the years during the Civil War. In 1880, the First Lady invited children to the White House for the Egg Roll because officials had plained that they were ruining the Capitol lawn. It has been held there ever since then, only canceled during times of war. The event has grown, and today Easter Monday is the only day of the year when tourists are allowed to wander over the White House lawn. The wife of the President sponsors it for the children of the entire country. The egg rolling event is open to children twelve years old and under. Adults are allowed only when acpanied by children!
Traditionally, many celebrants （司儀神父） bought new clothes for Easter which they wore to church. After church services, everyone went for a walk around the town. This led to the American custom of Easter parades all over the country. Perhaps the most famous is along Fifth Avenue in New York City. Good Friday is a federal holiday in 16 states and many schools and businesses throughout the . are closed on this Friday.
The size and shape of your ears show your character more than any other part of the face. Other parts of the face change shape as we get older, but ears don’t change their shape. They only change in size.
Reading people’s character from their ears is very old science. In ancient(古代的) times people thought that a person with big ears had a good and generous character. They thought that a person with pale, small ears was dangerous. They also thought that the shape of the ear showed if a person was musical or not. Today, too, many people believe that the size and shape of the ear helps you know if a person is musical.
Ears are all different, and each characteristic has a meaning. Next time you look at a person, see if his or her ears are large, mediumsized, or small. Look at the lobes(耳垂). Are they attached(連接) to the face? Ears that are always red mean that a person may have a temper(脾氣), or he/she may just have high blood pressure(血壓). Ears that are always cold and pale mean that a person has a nervous character. And a big hole(孔) inside the ear means a person is musical.
There was once a professor(教授) of medicine, who was very strict with his students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam mittee(委員會(huì)), the students would be in fear, because he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the exam room and got seated before the mittee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.
The professor began to ask. The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned out to be OK. Then the professor asked about the cure for the illness, and the student, too, answered just as right. “Good,” said the professor, “and how much will you give the patient?” “A full spoon,” answered the student. “Now you may go out and wait for what you can get,” said the professor. At the same time the mittee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed there was something wrong with his last answer. “A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Quickly he opened the doo