S WE read
chapter of the Cospel
according to St. Mat-
thew, we find these two
verses :
“And
thought
Consider
the sixth
why take ye
for raiment?
the lilies of
the field, how they
grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin:
“And yet I say unto
You, that even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these.”
And it is these flowers which,
than anything else, have become the
symbols of Easter which we celebrate
this year on April 20. As such a sym-
bol the lily has a double significance.
It is one of the earliest spring flow-
ers. It typifies the rebirth of nature
after the long winter sleep. In its
dry, brown bulb life lies dormant dur-
ing the winter and then when spring
comes, this life begins to stir. First
it pushes out the tender green leaves,
and then the buds appear. Finally the
white blossom comes forth In all its
glory as the perfect emblem of resur-
rected life,
Its other significance is a religious
one, its snow-white purity being emble-
matic of the flawless life of Christ
whose resurrection from the tomb we
commemorate on Easter day. In fact,
no other flower has a place in the re-
ligious life and literature of the Chris-
tian world to compare to the lily. Yet
its glory Is not so new as Christianity,
ancient though the beginnings of that
religion may seem to us.
The Greeks and the Romans prized
it above all flowers and in their ear-
Her civilizations it had already come
*to symbolize purity and virtue, It was
because of the place lilies had won In
the popular esteem that they found
place In the early paintings of the
Virgin, The angel Gabriel was de-
picted carrying them in annunciation
pictures and it is because of this that
the most beautiful of these flowers,
Lillom condidam, most used at Easter,
Is called the madonna lily.
Although this trumpet-like blossom
is the best known of all the members
of the lily family, there are others
which are very interesting even though
they do not have such significance for
us as the madonna lily. In the high
Himalayas In Asia grows a great lily
ten feet tall. Agents of the United
States government found a magnificent
specimen of lily In China a generation
ago—a lily of the madonna type, but
bardier—and brought it to America
and they have been offering it to citl-
zens to plant from coast to coast,
Most of the llies that are native to
America are radiant with color. There
is the turk’s cap, for Instance, that
flaunts the deep yellow of its many
blooms through the waste stretches of
parts of New England. Great, stal-
wart stalks, sometimes nine feet tall,
has the turk's cap. It may have half
a dozen orange blooms at its top, but
those who have tamed this plant and
given it care have induced it to pro-
vide as many as 40 blossoms,
A quite different American flower is
the little trout lily which likes to
grow along the streams or in the deep
woods. With the nourishment it has
saved up in its bulb it starts growing
In the early spring and Is likely to
have bloomed before the leaves of the
trees have grown to the stage of mak-
ing shade to interfere with it. A ra-
diant yellow, the trout lily stands out
vividly against its background of
more
The blue flag running to purple is
another American lily that has found
itself a home in many gardens. The
mottled tiger lily has been a favorite
for many generations. In California
the “leopard lily lights the heather
dun,” and the late shorn meadow Is
often red with their bloom.
The red lillies of New England, how.
ever, outshine them all and have in.
gpired many a poet of that region.
Lacey Larcom spoke of them as “red
Iles blazing out of the thicket,” Paul
‘Hamilton Hayne thought that the red
Jily “stands from all her sister flow-
ers apart.”
An Easter Flower
“To make one petal. myriads of atoms
(each In itself a planeiary system of
electrons) must climb and whee! to their
exmet stations in the design.” —Siate-
ment of a scientist,
Up-whispered by what Power,
Deeper than moon or sun
Must each of the myriad atoms of this
flower
To its own point of the colored pattern
run;
Each atom, from earth's gloom,
A clean sun-cluster driven
To make, at its bright goal, one grain of
bloom,
Or fleck with rose ome petal's odge in
Heaven?
What blind roots lifted wp
This sacramental sign,
Transmuting thelr dark food, in this wild
What Music was concealed,
What Loges in this loam,
That the Celestial Beauty here revealed
Should thus be struggling t its lost
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Whence was the radiant storm,
The still up-rushing somg,
That built of formless earth this heavenly
form,
Redeeming with art, the world's blind
Unlocking everywhere
The spirit’s Wintry prison,
And whispering from the grave,
here! Not here!
He is not dead. The Light you seek Is
risen!" 7?
wAlfred Noyes in the Washington Star.
“Not
Probably the most remarkable lly
in the world is the yucca, or spanish
bayonet, of the arid plains of the
Southwest. There the lily becomes a
plant that Is quite treelike and lives
for years, The lily leaves become
harsh, daggertipped Implements to
serve the purpose of repelling attack.
These may sit close to the ground or,
again, they may stand as high as a
man on horseback,
From the cluster of leaf armor
there springs now and again a tall
stalk that may reach like a flagpole
into the desert sunshine. At the top
of this staff there forms and finally
breaks into bloom such an assem-
blage of pure white, bell-like, richly-
perfumed, and in every way perfect
lilies as nature produces nowhere else
in a single cluster. It Is given to the
desert to grow the greatest of all the
lily-bearing plants despite the fact
that the chief habitat of the breed
seems to be the marsh.
Lilles all grow from bulbs, This
bulb-making capacity of the lily fam-
fly Is one of its dominant traits, It
and the six petals to all lily blooms
are marks of the tribe. Tulips, daf-
fodils, hyacinths, crocuses, all are ae-
tually, because they spring from bulbs,
members of the lily family.
But beautiful as are these members
of the lily family, there are others
which are utilitarian rather than pure-
ly ornamental and which, although
like the “lilies of the fleid which toll
not,” do furnish mankind with edible
crops, Surprising though It may be,
botanists will tell you that some of
our com es are In reality
“lilies.”
There Is na
that Is boug!
in bundles
xactly
n
mon vegetal
like
ig abo hi
form that would |
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plants just coming thro ah the ground
If they were allowed to grow
would throw out tall, liy-like
and crown them with six-tipg
ers that any observer would be
to identify as ilies
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asparagus in an dil
a let down to its pretensions,
however, Is not the worst. If
truth must be told, the onion Is a lily
The onion is a lily that has been
bred through centuries for the devel.
opment of its bulb and the suppres.
sion of its top. So it has come about
that the bulb may be three inches
across and the top so Insignificant
that, when it has dried up, it hardly
appears at all. Yet when this top Is
growing and flowering it is like those
delicate plants of the window sills
which sometimes are called tube roses,
but which actually are a delicate, re
fined and fragrant lily that comes out
of the Orient.
Onions came from the Near Easl
and In ancient days furnished a sta
ple food for the rural inhabitants of
Greece and Italy. Not only was gar
Hie a food, but it was reputed to have
medicinal value and to be helpful to
the stomach in its functions.
These two bulb vegetables, the Cin
derellas of the plant food world, ride
about the earth in trainloads and ship
loads, The material service they ren
der Is greater than that of all the oth
er lillies put together, One would have
to look far in all the relationships of
nature to find a contrast more strik
ing than that of the Easter lily and
the garlic of the Mediterranean,
Even though the lily is the one per
fect symbol of Easter, there are two
others which through the centuries
have become so closely associated
with this red-letter day in our calen
dars that we think of them almost as
quickly, In thinking of Easter, as we
do of the lily. They are the rabbit
and the egg.
The association of the rabbit or hare
with Easter has its foundations in the
ancient belief in European and Aslatie
countries that the hare Is the symbol
for the moon. In fact, the Chinese
represent the moon as a rabbit pound-
ing rice in a mortar, while Hindu and
Japanese artists paint the hare across
the face of the moon. As the time of
the Easter festival Is governed by the
phases of the moon this may be an ex-
planation of thelr connection.
Since the Resurrection of Christ oc
curred In the spring, it Is easy to see
how the symbols of the egg and all
revived life In the springtime came to
be associated with this event in the
history of Christianity. The egg as
a symbol was taken over by the He
brews as an emblem of their delivery
from bondage and next the early
Christians took it over as their sym.
bol of the resurrection.
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Happy Individual
“1 am not thin-skinned. 1 am
first to laugh at my own foolishness,
“What a merry life you must lead.”
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Fair Exchange
When a man proposes
But straightway on his shoulder
Fler head is dropped instead.
He's apt to lose his head.
Changed With Age
Fussy lady (who has been a long
time in selecting her purchase)
But | don't think this is lamb. It
looks to me like mutton,
Exasperated butcher—It was lamb
when I first showed it to you, madam.
Believed in Hereafter
Bob—Do you believe In the bere
after?
Babe-—\Why-a--yes,
Bob—-Well, how about a little neck:
ing? That's what I'm here after,
Man Displaced
Annabelle-—Mabel hasn't a thought
for anything nowadays except her new
automobile. She's perfectly In love
with it
George (sadly)-Another case of
mun being displaced by machinery.
What, Indeed?
“Don’t see any more stuff like Spar.
tacus to the Gladiators.”
“Eh
“What's become of all those fellers
that wrote for the old Third Reader?”
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