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.
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