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TT EATRES YOUTC EASIER LILY
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ASTER SUNDAY this year falls on
April 17. Last year it was April 4
and the year before, it was April
12. Next year it will fall on April 8,
As everybody knows it Is a variable
date, sometimes falling in March
and sometimes in April, but under
the present method of reckoning
date, it cannot
earlier than March 22 nor
For the reason that Easter
therefore does not
the Easter Sunday
come
mter than April 25.
Sunday is a variable date, it
save the significance as a red-letter date on Amer
«an calendars that other dates, such as New Year's
iay, Christmas day, Independence day, Washing
ton's birthday and Lincoln's birthday, have. In
‘his relation it is more lke Thanksgiving day or
f.abor day in being always a certain day of the
week, but varying as to the day of the month,
More important, of course, than its significance
as a red-letter day on calendars is the
inherent significance of the day itself. To the
“hristian world It is the anniversary of the resur
rection of Jesus Christ, But that does not mean
that the essential spirit of Easter means some-
thing to one part of humanity, set off from the
rest by a religious classification, and means noth-
ng to the rest of the human race. For Easter has
2 significance to all humankind and the keynote
of that significance is the one word “resurrection.”
the word Easter. It is derived
from the word East, and East is one of the four
sardinal points, It is also the cardinal point which
has always been most important in all religious
of all races and This
rause It Is the part of the heavens where the sun
fs seen to rise—the sun, bringer of light and heat,
the very giver of life itself! The most primitive
mtelligence of the most primitive man recognized
the fact that the sun and life were inseparably
assoclated and It was only natural that when he
rane to worship the thing which was greater than
tie, he should turn t6 the East whence came that
greater and higher thing which he recognized as
being the life-giving power,
So each day was to him a cycle of a whole life-
time. In the morning as the sun came up, life
into being. As the sun mounted in the
2eavens life grew In its lusty youth and increased
At its zenith, life, too, was at Its highest
As the sun declined, so life declined Into
old age, Into weakness, until there came darkness,
the synonym for death, After a period of dark-
life came again, There was a resurrection
and once more, the cycle of a life-time compressed
into 24 hours, there was life!
And that, stripped of all the
legend, custom and practice that has
attached itself to Easter, is the spirit and the
of Easter, all concentrated in the one
word “resurrection.” So Easter has a significance
that no other red-letter day on our calendars has
and that significance is the significance
of the fundamental and inevitable
énce, Jt is that all
days may be abolished from our calendars, that
the calendar itself may be done away with, Bur,
ao matter what may happen, so long as human
tife exists on this earth, the spirit of Easter will
survive, When it ends, then ends all hope for
mankind, all reason for mankind's struggle to
exist. .
If “resurrection” Is the the spirit and the mes.
gnge of Easter, then the inmost essence of that
spirit can be summed up in the one word “im-
mortality.” If man can find an answer to the old,
old question that has troubled him through the
ages, the question “Does death end all?’ he can
find it In the message of Eastér, It is reas
surance that the struggle to live 1s worth while
and that he does not face 8 hopeless task, Even
{f he did not have the comfort of his religion to
thielp him arrive at that belief, he finds it In the
mere fact of living. Each day, each year and each
{ifetime he sees the cycle repeated. The sun
romes up in the morning and goes down into dark.
aess at night. But he knows that it will come
ap sagain the next morning. Each 24 hours he
gees the miracle of resurrection, New life ia
manifest in the animal and vegetable kingdoms
with each recurring spring. It ripens in the heat
of summertime and mellows nto maturity in the
autumn, only to die in the cold of winter, But
fhe knows that life will begin against next spring.
fiach 12 months he sees the miracle of resurrec-
on. A baby 1s born, passes through childhood,
grows into youth, reaches man's estate and then
declines into old age. What If the darkness of
death is only a matter of a few years away? He
tins seen the recurring miracle of resurrection
every 24 hours and every 12 months, Why should
aot man, reasoning logically from this evidence of
which he Is aware every day of his life, believe
our
Look at itself
reremonies creeds is he.
rame
nn power,
point,
ess,
tradition, myth,
social
mess ge
of one
facts of exist-
conceivable other red-letter
that the cycle of a lifetime Includes a resurrection
just as does the daily cycle and the yearly cycle?
He does so from that belief
his bellef In the life everlasting, in Immortality.
Perhaps It would be more accurate to say he
chooses to For few men, if any, have
ever solved the riddle of life to their utter satis
faction. They constantly grope for the truth, seek-
Ing, always seeking, the answer to the unsolved
problems of life. They have the never-ending
longing In thelr hearts for everlasting life and
they choose to believe, and take comfort from
the belief, that they shall have it.
So whether he be primitive man or modern,
civilized man, whether he be Christian or heathen,
the essential spirit of Easter, the message of
Easter Is the same--it is a message of
message of Joy and a promise and a fulfillment
in one, That message is delivered to man in many
forms. It comes to him In the riot of bird songs
which greet the sun on every morning in spring.
It comes to him in the greenness of the grass, in
the swelling buds on the the flowers
which push their way up through the earth when
the warming touch of the sun is laid upon it. It
comes to him in the softness of the blue sky, in
the fleecy clouds floating above him and in the
gentle caress of the breezes that touch his face
as he goes forth to start day's work, It
too, as he watches young animal
lambs, calves and colts wabbling
about -unsteadily at first and then, as they gain
strength, running around in those funny, awk-
ward, stiff-legged little jumps which are always
so fascinating to watch,
believe and COMmes
believe,
hope, a
trees, In
each
comes to him,
life about him
It comes to him every minute of the day as
Nature, In all her forms, cries out exultingly
“Spring has come! Spring has come!” Even If
she did not tell him in those words, he would
know it himself—in the surge of new strength In
his own body, in the quickening of his blood after
its winter sluggishness., As he hears the call of
spring and the message of Kaster he feels the de-
gire to pass the message along. He passes it along
in as many ways as it comes to him--in the happy
note In his volee as he greets his friends, in the
little snatches of song which he finds himself sing:
ing and in the effort which he makes constantly
to put that message into words,
One of those efforts takes the form of writing
poetry. Even though the spring poet is a subject
for many of our stock jokes, the fact remains that
the urge to write poetry is a part of man's effort
to pass along the message of spring. For all
spring poetry Is fundamentally an effort to
express the feeling of resurrected life. And Easter,
which represents the crystallized spirit of spring,
probably brings forth more attempis at poetic ex:
pression—and perhaps more real poetry--than any
other day on our calendar,
Though the theme of all the Easter poems may
vary, through them all runs the thread of rejole
ing, rejoicing In the return of new life to the
fields and woods, rejoicing In the new hope that
springs up in human hearts at the coming of the
springtime and more especially at the thought
that Easter means the promise of life everlasting,
These poems illustrate those joyous thoughts:
At Easter Time
Easter ltlles, daffodils
All the world thelr perfume fills,
While adown the dim alsies ringing
Hallielujahs, Hark the singing,
Echoed in the far-off hills
Walting time is o'er at last
Finished all the prayer and fast;
Woodland songs are echoing
Woodland bowers beckoning:
All the walting time Is past
Hall the glad, sweet Easter Day!
Lifted is the vell of gray
Christ is risen In His glory
It is finished now, the story
Clouds of gloom have rolled away
Hallslujah'! Joyous sound:
What was sought at last is found
Through the dim aisles hear it ringing,
All through woodlands hear the singing,
Echoing the world around
Ww KW
Easter Day
Words titter
Christ His
Mankind, keep
Strip off your
cannot
returning
Subllies,
Set your lamps burning
Speech ia left
Ket you to singing,
Fling your hearts open wide,
Set your bells ringing
Christ the Chief Reaper
Comes, His sheaf bringing.
speechless;
Earth wakes her song-birds,
Puts on her flowers,
Leads out her lambkins,
Builds up her bowers
This ia man's spousal day,
Christ's day and ours
wed Bristina Rossetth
HOW Ww
Corpus Christi
{iante, flaming torches of advancing dawn,
into the Tomb, confirm its vacancy,
That every eye In certain day can see
it 1s no dream of worn centurion,
Nor any parable of Gentile lore,
That Christ hath risen and goeth on before
His very mourners Into Galilee,
Passing mid lilies redolent with prayer.
White as the wings which seraphim unfold
in grace above thelr coronets of gold,
Or as the robes triumphant saints will wear
He blesseth by his presence in the way
Each creature waking to eternal day;
Ere this God's purposes were but half told
His flesh was rent apart on Calvary,
Those veins which opened at the spear's mad thrum
Gave priceless blood unto the very dust:
Yet not all hell could change the prophecy
That not a bone of him should mortals break
Nor worldly kings from him his portion take
While iighaboveearth'sdarkness reigned the Just!’
And so, though torn by many a man-made creed
The garments of our falth still seem to be,
The firm foundation of our hope is He,
firuised, but surviving every foe, the seed
Sown by His Word In stanch and fertile ground
Will bloom till all its Mowers of Love abound;
For what shall vanquish Immortality?
«doa M. LeNart
SHE COULDN'T BE FOOLED
A recent bride on one of her first
out with the butcher,
“That was a terrible asamburger
bought here yesterday ™ khe sald,
“Is that 50? [I'm sorry to hear that.
Here Is some we made today, Try
it. Pm sure you'll ind It very good.”
“No, Indeed,” she sald. “You don't
fool me just give me two
pounds of ham and I'll make my owp
hamburger.” — Forbes' Magazine,
again ;
NO ENCUMBRANCE
He—And your dad owns this estate
with mo encumbrances on it, you say?’
She-—None but ma and myself
Poor Feet
“My poor feet! My
groaned Alics. the lace clerk
prepared to turn in at ZZ a.m
foot 7
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Bs she
“*Smaltter
with your yawned
her room » boarding house,
“I was on them all day at the store
and my hoy d was on them al?
svening at dunce.” she moaned.
Before the Steward
“One of the club members says you
spoke te him
moned.”™
“Yon gir.”
without being sum
sald the walter, “His
soattails were on fire.”
“As for myself, 1 think
jfnxtified. However, If he
of it, son
you were
makes »
point will have to go.”
Incurable
ife has an idea that she
‘alm Beach for her healtl
me other remedy for hes
cure her Hiness, but
idea.”
I can
Why It’s There
The bread
sand in it
Yes,
the butter
Customer you sold me
aad
that
slipping
Grocer
keep
The Progressive Grocer.
was to
Off [wm
ma'am,
from
IMPROVING BUSINESS
; .
“Her business is improving all the
wr
“What's her business?
“Beauty doctoring.”
Playing Safe
Jean—Ted's always first to put his
aands in his pockets when money is
Dora—Yes, and he keeps them there
antil the danger's over,
One on the Prince
“Something Is rotten in the state of
Denmark,” mused Hamlet,
the faithful Horatio, “I'll
whole trouble is with your receiving
Wound Up
Millionaire—Yes, every time my
wateh ticks I'm Just $265 richer,
Thousandalre-~I'l bet you're al
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In Style
Daughter— Father, can you let me
save a little money? 1 haven't a skirt
fit to wear.
Father—Well, what of it? If any of
the girls have these days, they're not
wearing "em.
We Get You, Jimmy
Teacher—And what are ancestors,
Jimmy?
Urchin—Ancestors Is old folks that
wouldn't be here now If you hadn't
bad ‘em.
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Ivory Auction Draws
Dealers to London
Every three months London holds @
great jvory auction in Mincing lane
Tusks of elephant, hippo and wild
boar are put on view and cover sev.
eral acres, popularly known as “the
The walrus and narwhal
contribute. At an auction held
tons of this valu
resulted in
ivory floor”
also
recently
article of
some forty
able comiperce
brisk biddi
The
market
handled in this London
arrives from parts of
Africa. It is said that elephants, liv
ing in when
die in a community cemetery.
People who know an elephant’s tusks
only as they appear on the living ani
mals are invariably surprised at the
great length of the tusks displayed for
sale. It is explained that nearly half
of the tusk Is carried inside,
ivory
various
elect
herds, possible te
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Say “Bayer” when you buy Aspirin.
Imitations may prove dangerous. —Adv.
| Seek New Methods
to Conserve Coal
Experts in all parts of the world
| are tackling the problem of how I<
use coal to the best advantage.
Professor Bergius of Heidelberg has
reduced coal to a paste and combined
it with hydrogen at a very high tem
perature and pressure. The resulting
fluid has all the properties of crude
petroleum and can be treated In the
same way to produce petrol and other
olls,
Another scientist reduces coal to »
gaseous form and then liquefies the
gases. He has produced methanol
{ which seems to have all the propertics
of wood alcohol; synthol, equivalent
to a highgrade petrol; and a substi
| tute for benzine,
General Patart, a Frenchman, has
| been experimenting with coal-produced
| synthetic alcohol, which shows a sav
| Ing of 15 per cent In calories over
| petrol. The temperature of the radi
| ator In which It is used was consi]
| erably lower than in cars using petrol
Marigolds
Marigolds are old-fashioned flowers,
| but none the less satisfactory in small
gardens. They are exceedingly easy
to grow and begin to flower in a few
weeks from the time the seed Is
planted. Moreover, they will thrive In
rather poor soll, having a tendency
to make heavy foliage but to throw
few flowers when the ground is rich,
The odor of the marigold is not very
pleasing, it is true, and they are not
to be recommended for house decora-
tions, As bedding plants, however,
they are extremely useful,
It the world will be gulled, let It
be guiled.—Burton.
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