To the learned men who go grub-
bing in kitchen middens, and who can
tell without stopping to count, just
iow many sausages it takes to reach
the moon, it's as plain as the noon-
day sun why the hare is here at
Baster with a wheelbarrow full of
eggs. But for and me, who
couldn’t build up a dinosaur from a
decayed tooth in another million
years, and who mix up history
you
with
historical novels, a little time is re
quired to disentangle the truth
the tradition.
There's no doubt that Easter
hare has arrived. You have seen him
in nearly all the confectioner's win-
dows for some time past, either trund-
ling a wheelbarrow full of eggs or
proudly drawing a hu; egg up
on wheels,
rom
the
Set
Now, be sure not to pronounce that
“aigs” and “aig.” as
South, for if you do, you
ing into the same unscienti
the confectioners have m:
senting hare as his hu
American cousin, “Bre'r Rabbit
rabbit all well
and without him
“Uncle Remus,” perhaps, &
people would to take
dent insurance in of
around graveyards in the dari
moon,
they do
he sacred
is
we woul
hav
tead
THE
But the rabbit is not a hare, and
has nothing to do with Easter. Un:
fortunately, there are no hares in the
East and South, and out un the Alkali
plains, where they insult the tame
American hare by calling him a jack
or jackass rabbit, they are behaving
pretty well when they remember that
it's Sunday at all, much less Easter
Sunday.
This distinction between the hare
and the undersized rabbit is really
important, and chiefly because the
rabbit burrows in the ground, while
the hare makes forms of grass for his
habitation. Are you so keen-witted
that you never sought a hare in a
hen's nest? Al! now you
understand. And when you reflect how
impossible - it would be to find the
Easter eggs if the hare hid them in a
deap hole, it's perfectly plain that the
New York dealers in confectioners’
supplies are propagating a mischiey-
ous error. Maybe it is a blow at the
Belgian hare trade. In these days of
international rivalry, who can tell?
Yet it [a Belgium's neighbor, Ger
many, fronr which we have borrowed
the tradition of the
is quite as important a figure in his
way in the Fatherland as is St. Nich:
olag himself at Christmas,
the Germans get the hare myth?
determine that you would have
make a pretty long excursion into the |
And perhaps, in the end,
be “up to" the Sphinx to
you, and you Know very
crabbed that lady has
through all the centuries, with no one
but impertinent tourists
seems © to be that little
“pleked” eggs with his boy
That was
Gauls introduced
Easter hat.
If Cleopatra,
later the
3
past
would
swer
how
an-
well
become
to talk to
The
Rameses
truth
long before the
of
neighbors
the custom the
who came somewhat
affected the lily at
of th year, it was prob
he tiger ! may he
she knew » hare and
relations with the moon, and con
on scene,
season
Hi s
even a fable,
and the
Easter
is a fac
moon
the
0 goddes
+ to oar Cl
ay think
of Egy pt jology
Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640,
the Egyptians had no language other
than the queer signs you may see to |
day on the obelisk in Central Park, |
but you are mistaken. Those hiero |
glyphies were, perhaps, merely steno- |
graphic notes dictated by Osiris to |
Iris, and afterward transcribed in the |
cuneiform tablets, :
With the lapse of ages some of them |
have grown so “cold” that the best!
handwriting experts of to-day cannot |
decipher them. But in the everyday |
language of the Nile region the equiva.
lent of hare is “un,” which, In English,
is “open,” “to open,” “the opener.”
Also, the hare has been from remote
time a symbol for the moon, and for
several reasons. Two of them are
that the hare is a nocturnal animal,
and that the hare and the moon have
both been credited with the power of
changing their sex. Again, the young
of the hare, unlike rabbits, are born
with their eyes open, and are fabled
never to close them. Hence the tra.
ditional “hare's sleep.”
of fact, rather than of fable, the hares
eyes are so situated on the sidey of Its
head that it can see all around. xou
never heard a hare make that old
sneering excuse for carelessness:
“You might think I had eyes in the
back of my head.” To all intents and
purposeg the hare has.
Well, then, to make it quite clear,
“un'’ is hare, or “open,” and the moon
is “the eyed watcher of the
at But that isn't all
open
skies night.”
Ecce Homo.
The Egyptians being a people of few,
because difficult, words, made “un”
duty for “period.” ‘hus the hare,
being never comma-lose, “became
human and lunar,
became associated
uf new year at
Finally, it came to be
popular mind with
Ken to satisfy the opening of
A rd are!” ex
imphantly enthusiastic
to w m | indebled for
do
100,
the
type of period-icit)
and
with
as the opener
the opening the
Easter con
nected the the
eRES,
there
you
the
am
Hans and Gre
hare
Easier eve
and
steal
on
sleeping,
‘Orpers many
the
“Kinder
hildren
Fresh Easter Eggs To-aay.
a (erm postal card
who is a composite of
Ty thi may be added
that in Swabia
are actually sent
search of
further, saying |
be a fire
. and that children are
from the
however, that
usurped
persons
of the
by
Walsh
Meier's explanation
1d Hesse chi iren
the hare's nest in
Mannhardt goes still
hare is reputed to
to GeEEs
the
and soul br
supposed procured
em,
largely
some
th
}
has
wd «By
which
» at
fortunate in view
mense number
hare New York
“Easter” Surprises in Serving Ice
Cream.
the conventionalized presen
of ice cream in the mold of ap
or a large Easter egg
chocolate, violet, orange om
rose, we have more and additional re
sources this year for the Easter party
served with individ
ual jee creams frozen and molded ir
the shape of Easter lilies. The Ber
muda lily makes a capital design. The
children appreciate the suggestion |
like the generous size of thei |
portion.
Jeside
tation
rabbit
Easter
colored
A Bad Investment.
“Guess | was stuck when [| give
you thirty cents fer dis rabbit. [|
ain't iaid no colored eggs yet."-—New |
York Journal.
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New York City.—Blouse Etons with
shoulder capes are among the newest
coats shown and are peculiarly well
suited to young girls. This May
MISSES BLOUSE ETON.
tou one Is made of mixed blue chevy
fot stitched with corticelll silk and
part The
is both smart and becoming
mnkes of a costume
Hked, the lower portions can be omit
chloe of
ted and the sleeves allow of
bell
in the
Eton is
back, back
pieat the
turning pleat at
the plain and the shaped model
shown small cut
The made with fronts and
Iwix
with an outward
Ih side. The
is In two portions and is finished with
‘the being lald in »
at centre
ene cape
the stole, the lower portions of 1
which
are joined to the heneath the
The
ut the wa
upper
points sliveves
and
Quantity
are
3 1
ae meq
um
i
garter varas
3
three yards twenty-seven hes wide
1
or one aud three-quarter yards forty
four inches wide
“Early Victorian" Wateriall,
“Early Victorian” is a
falls from
have any concern with the making of
these days or the
The “proud |
term which
often the lips of all who |
in
dressing of women's hair,
iadies” in the windows of the smart
hairdressers exhibit of the pret
tiest of these new-old styles, and one
which may be adapted by the modern |
woman to the last degree of becoming.
ness. The waterfall or “bun” in the
back, Is a loose braid, well padded out
women's clothes
one
the crown, and just shows at the nape
neck when viewed from the
front. The front hair Is parted in the
middle and well to the front on the
sidcs and waved, It Is then rolled
back, over pads, If necessary. and so
nearly meets on top as almost to bide
the parting, which, however, must be
there, straight as a die. To look at an
old photograph of the fifties will prove
bow becoming this style may be wade,
with the tip of the ear just covered
and the “puffing” so cunningly done as
to obviate the flatheaded appearance
which might be expected to result from
the abolition of the popular pompa-
dour. Round cut jet pins, like iarge,
ripe blackberries, are used galore with
this style of halrdressing, and a side
or front bow or algrette Is imperative.
The wreaths of rose leaves and tiny
birds, forget-me-nots and the like seen
this season for full dress also look well
with this coiffure,
New Things In Fashions.
Ostrich plumes of all shades and
hues are being worn by the smart
women, who five years ago would have
sald “absurd” to even think of haviug |
real ostrich but
{ or white
Years ugo
the exception
| cardinal
| plume,
i 5
ival
ia pitie
But n
have
of
any
Ww
bec
10 a
which
(Gowns
of xi
cloth
ky
chased by wonien
“brand
Hew
olor, for whet
surface Kinu
|
i gives the cloth
would make ex
It is redicted tha bandsome
pelerines and stoles
this than
Year ever,
pany
very thi
summery hats,
many
The Cachepeigne
For midsumims r miiiinery
of flowers will be
of Flowers,
the cache
peligne favored
Dame Fashion
i
]
i . "
} Elaborately Trimmed,
Bleeves have never been
IHOre
more elaborately trimmme
{orate or
Fancy Nlounse,
Yokes
front and back
shaped to form points
and to extend well over
latest and
Manton
with
ire among tue
This Muay
1 ¢
de of sheer
shown
white lawn
trimming nf
{fitted iin
sleeves
lie waist
wd, the
when a desired
At the
t effect is
waist is a draped belt that is
with the
centre back,
The quantity of
the medium si
transparen
the waist invisibly at
taaterial
required
ge is three and
yards
two
when
and
inches
wide, three
twenty-seven
onequarter
wide or
forty-four inches wide
tucked or gathered, five and one.
quarter yards twenty-one inches
wide, four and one-half yards twenty-
seven inches wide or two and three.
quarter yards forty-four inches wide
yards
FANCY BLOUSE.
AAA
when accordion pleated, with ove and
one-eighth yards of allover tucking
for sleeves and yoke and three-quar
ter yards of silk for belt,
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Wouldn't any woman be Lappy,
After years of backache suffering,
Days of misery, nights of unrest,
The iroubies,
Ble finds relief and cure?
reader
of evidence
distress of uriuns y
No reason w hy
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like this:
Mrs. Almira A. Jackson, of East
Frout St. Traver Mich
- “¥or twenty
| never
what It
have
health,
phy sl.
consiited
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mie no good,
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His I was al-
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a Knife
the pain
My
visions of dis-
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lar, and 1 was
{ nd always
nsed seven boxex of Doan's
ting subsided
weighed 100 pounds le conld
ep like a child and was relieved of
of the
mn is good
way.”
iduey med.
1 will Le
part of
Foster
For sale
» 50 cents per box.
hardly
iLtense,
disturbed
The
was
Aoure
figures
The blo
Be
Larity
How They Interpretzd It.
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We are taught in the Sermon
Mount not towkhink of the fu
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