pli Unto the o-day, 11. We know that Paradise Is just one endless Easter yond these changing skies. iit ¢ Shall feel the sunkight soon, 89 The glory of Jehovah 2 Untouched of night or noon. § For us, when pain is over, Shall Easter gladness be One pang, and then the fulness Of Immortality. lleluias, Risen Lord, d from our side one day, iv. Alter the wintry coldness, The flush and glow of spring, After the wintry silence The Jubilate! Sing Oh, heart that ached, for gladness Is on the King’s highway. And we, with saints and angels Are keeping Easter day. The Little Hampbacked Girl. O come over here, said Olivia I will tell you an Easter tale was once a woman who daughter that and altogether from other chi the little one « stood and whispered the little the people the mother alwa; cause you new dress.” was content they returned hon clasp her ii kiss “You had an Was very 1 looket among girl as : . OOK her sweet in a mirror gaw that indeed ghe humpbacked again on it into the stree od old mother, badly she the window and looked Was there th } the her | child who : “1 ne of aigien one Oo; and m roach 3 s I a | wed the st flowers nashine so little as seat by window | ones playing in the | and as frequent | 1 was there one who saw : of | and the flowers ghe | From her saw the litt sunshine iid? the 3 le sae street, their become of you if I No | one, not even your father, knows what a dear little angel you are!’ Some time afterward the mother be came suddenly sick ani she died on the ninth day. Thereupon the father of the little girl threw himself in des pair on the deathbed and asked to be buried wife His friends, ! were to die? with his however, spoke to him and comforted | him, and so he left his wife's oody, | and a year later he took unto himself | another wife, who was ovelier, young | er and richer than his first wife, but | by no means as good And from the day that her mother | died the little girl spent her whole | time from morning till evening seat- | ed at the window sill in the sitting | room, since there was no ons who | would take her out far a walk. She had become paler than before and she had not grown at all during the latter years When her new mother came to the house she said to herself: “Now | will go out walking again in the city and on the beautiful promenades where the sun shines so brightly, where there are so many lovely shrubs and flowers and where there is such a crowd of handsomely dressed people.” For she lived in a narrow little alley, in which. the sun seldom shone, and when she sat on the window sill she saw only a little bit of the blue sky— a bit not larger than a pocket hand- kerchief. Her new mother went out nearly every day in ths forenoon and afternoon, and each time she wore a very beautiful dress, much more beau- tiful than any dress the first mother had ever owned. But she never took the little girl with her. Finally the child took heart, and one day she earnestly begged her new mother to take her out with her. The mother, however, refused bluntly, saying. “You are not smart enough. What would the people think if they were to see me with you? You are a little humpback. Humpbacked chil- dren never go walking but always stay at home.” Thereupon the littl: girl became very quiet, and as soon as her new over ‘Why am | not like children? became ever more | urgent the summer passed, and when winter came the little girl was still pale and she had become so weak that + =O but was obliged to remain lying | in bed, and, just when the snowdrops | were beginning to peep above ground, the good old mother came to her one night and told her how gisrious and beautiful it was in heaven The following morning was d¢ al “Don't the child weep, father,” said the new | mother, “it is best for the poor child.” And the girl's father answered no | word, but simply nodded hier head. The little girl was buried, but on Eastern morn an angel with large white wings ilke a swan flew down from heaven, seated himself beside the grave, and knocked thereon, as though it were a door. And soon the little girl came forth from the grave and the angel told her that he had | come to take her to her mother in | heaven. Then the girl asked in 4 trembling voice whether even hump backed children could enter heaven, She could not conceive such a thing possible, Yet the angel answered: “You dear, good child, you are no longer hump backed,” and with those words he passed his white hand over her back and the ugly old hump fell off like a mother had left the house she got on them out, as though she had always known how to fly, and she flew with the angel through the dazzling sun- light up into the blue sky. On the loftiest seat in heaven sat her good old mother awaiting her with out stretched arms, and the child fiew straight into her lap.—New York Her- eld. Easter Decorations. Easter's table service made as characteristic of the season as possible, To do this the colors of the decorations should be thoroughly in accord with Easter traditions—that is, they should white, with a few touches of green or yellow for the sake of contrast. Yellow jonguills and white lilies are the flowers of Easter and they may be used for decorative | purposes either in pots or with the cut | lowers arranged in bowls or vases. The most spotless linen should cov- {er the table, the table centre and the doillies being white embroidered in { green. The simplest table decoration {of flowers consists of a small glass | bowl filled with lilies of the valley. A more elaborate one consists of a larg { er bowl filled with smilax so that ten- | drils of the plant fall over the side of {the bowl and trail over the tablecloth {and great white Easter lilies alternat- {ing with the smilax in the bowl, A still more elaborate decoration is {in the shape of a large floral egg tied { with narrow satin ribbons and so ar ranged that when the dinner is done { it can be divided into boutonniers and | bouquets de corsage, for the dinners, | Violets, snowdrops, white carnations { or roses will serve the material for should be be as | smilax or moss as its cushion. Such [a decoration requires the skill of the i florist make it and is too expensive for the aver to therefore look well The yellow flowers characteristic of white table lin- and green foliage quite as he daracteristi make The Word “Easter.” The word Easter derived from “Ostern” anfl from the {passover). Itz Teu- is “Pascha” in An- | which in the old- en days was celebrated at about the | same time as the Christian Easter. The season of Easter celebration in the anrient church was eight days, | after ths eleventh century the | duration dwindled to three and final | Castertide in the old The courts of justices were closed and all slaves were often given their free dom. Lent being at an end the people gave themselves up to thorough en- Joyment, You'll Have No Show, When you catch a man busy tooting his horn, there is no use asking him to pass judgment on your own achiev. ments. -—Baltimore News. EASTER MORNING. Keeping Easter in Cuba. Those of us who know Esster only in our cold and prosaic North can have little conception of the signifi- cance and solemnity of passion week in countries where a hotter sun has infused intenser warmth into the blood. Thomas H. Graham gives an interesting description of Easter as observed in Santiago and other Cuban cities, “During the entire week,” he says, “all social galety is suepended; even business assumes a quieter aspect, but the distinctive celebrations do not begin until Holy Thursday. On that day high mass is broken off in the middle, and a procession of priests carries an image of the Christ—the ‘Bece Homo'—to the cathedral, In towns where there i8 no cathedral some church is selected, and there the image, life size and robed in white, is carried in solemn state, the entire populace joining the procession, This ceremony commemorates the journey to Pllate’s judgment hall. The image ig left in the church and the people disperse in silence. Then the devout begin the ceremony of the pilgrimage. That is, they visit fourteen churches, indicative of the fourteen stations of the cross, saying pravers at every station “Good Friday Is something to be remembered. The sun rises on a city plunged in absolute stillness—still- of the grave. The alr funeral, In the afternoon the pro cession of the Holy Virgin takes place. This is really the most striking of all the The sacred image, robed black, is carried by priests and is followed by the eighteen canons i of the church in singular costume, black On their heads they wear canonical black caps fully two and a half feet in height, and their robes have trains sixteen or eighteen feet long. Every canon is followed by an | acoyite, who carries ness very is ceremonials in still In black, all carrying lighted candies The scene medieval and impreskive. “Through the entire day no bells have been rung. Then comes the ‘Baturlay of glory. with its wonderful and dramatic change. At 10 o'clock in the morning all the church bells ring out joyfully, and the ‘vigil’ is Everywhere rejoicing takes is curiously is a day of music and gladness.” Origin of Easter Rabbits. One of the quaint and interesting features of our modern Easter carni- val is the appearance in shop win- dows, side by side with the embla- matic colored egg, of a pert talleared rabbit, and those who cannot under stand why bunny should have a place in our Easter decorations shrug their shoulders and think it a trick to please the children. But the legend of the Easter rabbit is one of the oldest in mythology, and is metioned in the early folklore of South Germany. Originally, it appears, the rabbit was a bird, which the ancient Teutonic goddess Ostara-—goddess of the east or of spring--transformed into a quadruped. For this reason the rab bit or hare Is grateful, and In remem- brance of its former condition as a bird and as a swift messenger of spring, and of the goddess whom it served, 1s able to lay colored Easter eggs on her festival in the spring time, the colors illustrating the theory that when it was a bird the rabbit laid colored eggs, and an egg has always been a symbol of the resurrection, and, therefore, used as an illustration at Easter. Getting Ready for Easter. Silas Clone—"Wa-al, by gosh! Bill Smith's yellow hen lald a hand-paint- ed egg.” Silas Lence—"By gosh! you don't sty #0." Silas Clone—"Yes, sif; by gosh!” Silas Lence—"Waal, by gosh!" Judge. bd Fhousands of Children Spend a Joyous Day in the White House Grounds. Clifford Howard, in writing of the innual Easter Monday egg-rolling in che White House grounds at Washing- on, gives a fine glimpse of the spot n the Ladies’ Home Journal, “The ‘hief points of attraction,” he says, ‘are the mounds of hillocks that rise n gentle slope from the lawn in vari wus parts of the grounds, Their sides tre richly carpeted with soft, thick grass, and here it is that the little chil iren roll their eggs. They clamber ip the hillside with their baskets, the ittle tots crawling up on hands and gnees, and then turn and roll their 8&8 one by one down the grass slope. 3ut the children do not confine them- ielves to rolling eggs. Many of them ake more pleasure in sitting about in groups and picking their eggs with ne another. This is done by striking ‘WO eggs together on their points. The one whose egg is broken in this ! counter is the loser and gives egg to the other. This game par- | ticularly enjoyed by the colored chil dren, for it gives them a good oppor { tunity and a good excuse to eat eggs, and there Is nothing they like better. | Preparatory to an encounter each Jit | tle fellow tests the bardness of hs egg by Enocking it If he can stand this test ered a good one for picking, and the { owner sallles forth with a broad grin, confident of success. The boy who OWNS A EOO8e ¢RE Or a turkey ogg | a prince among his fellows. Occasion- { ally such a boy appears. In all | ability his shoes are | are patched and his adorned with an antiquated moth-eat. 11 up is n prob- his } torn i woolly | on fur cap. But he could be no proud | or nor command greater respect if he { were adorned with regal robes He immediately sumounded and fol { lowed wherever he goes by a band of | admirers, who ac him as their champion and defy anybody to pick an egg with him io 10D The Easter Kiss. One of the prettiest of the old East sf customs was the giving of the Saster kiss and mutual greetings, but che chief solemnity of the day was Jen, as it is now, the celebration of be Lord's Supper. The most charac ‘eristic Easter rite which has not com- pletely died out at the present day. al hough without religious meaning, is he use of Easter eggs, stained with various colors. In former days people made presents of these eggs, some times eating them, but generally keep ing them as amulets. From a Chris tian point of view the eggs were ioubtless considered emblematic of the resurrection and o fa future life. Aden, on the Suez canal. does a large business in the export of salt, secured by evaporating sea water. HE ena who gets & goiles seg Wii plenty have &nd never weg The one Wee gels Ap egg of Plus Will find & swesthesrt fond and (roe. The one Who gels an egg of green WHI jesivus be and not serene he ons who gets an egg of black Bud tuck and troubies peer will back. 7 Tis One WHE gets en s£F of while 1n life shgil find supreme Oelight. The snk whe gets sn sgg of red Wil many tears of saryow shed The gees an egg of purple abate Will Gis 8 pachelor or pid mals A stiver egg will bring much Joy And ssppinese withoyl aliey. A lucky one, the cgg of pink, he owner Beer sess Sopger's brink. The one who gels an ogg of wens Will have establishments In tow whe speckiod cpr oBising rovgh Nis by cousiry lanes A piviped +gg bodes cove and girls A sulle men ot poviding wile. Easter Dates. Easter never falls March nor after the 1761 and again in the former nor the next cent case again. In 1 the 256th of April, will it again fall so | proper date for the celebration of Easter has occasioned It be ing the most and important of all sts Easter before the 224 of 25th of April. In 1818 Easter fell on but in this iry will such be the Easter came on not until 1942 _— ate, ihe date, neither 886 put Ties) no nile nt Controversy. ancie the movable fea deter It was of the ndar continue to be mines the date » rest, earnestly debated a th vine adoption Gregorian cale whether ter should whether fixed March should to an old plan Easter is following moon 21st of If the full moon falls upon a however, then Easter is next follow: a moveable feast Sunday after the | be Out a gt of 4 p jeference the adopted nt | was | till celebrated the first | March | Sunday | brated ' ing. custom jeft and Sunday unehan 1 full the cele upon the Su £4 54 wr nday Easter in Turkey. On Holy Thursday in Turkey every { Christian woman boils a number of | eggs with cochineal for the approach- | ing Easter and also bakes a | quantity of and sweet biscuit. | At the hour when the Bible is read she takes a8 many eggs as there are mem bers the he places the them to 3 estival cakes yusehold and and she in one over, carries leaves mw | ial 3 na church napkin whers placed before the or place of the holy A kinds of fterward against all Kept as traced ‘Ss texts words Let Husbands Rejoice. Who says the year 1902 isn't a ju It 2 ar? ioe year Easter A Brussels publisher has felt just fled in starting wholly to the scientific ydical devoted study of milk. a peri 8 an 3 NL BN In @ 2
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