THE CITIZEN.
THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1902.
saying that she
• / other girls," and
i'l Harry D e a n e
agreed with her
F* • V en *' re ' J - - ' n "
Jr*V deed, he went
% \ much further in
) J-mi, is * )e " e ' t^ an
7 s^e ' or B^e
ij meant that her
! jf:. y I usual way of
I /Va doing things
IW \ was different,
' Ju while he not on
' '' ly thought that,
but thought she
differed greatly in being more beautiful
and lovable and harder to propose to
than other girls. She didn't follow up
any of the usual leads that are so like
ly to bring up the momentous question
naturally when young people are to
gether. On the contrary, she seemed to
realize several sentences ahead what
he was going to stammer out when he
had made up his mind to propose and
never failed to change the subject skill
fully. Of course this only made him
the more eager to have his face set
tled.
When Harry came home from the
city for his Easter holiday, it was with
a grim determination to go back as an
engaged man or know the reason why.
He knew that he would have to do
something clever In the way of pro
posing, and, as he had studied the mat
ter carefully since Christmas, he felt
sure that his plan was one that would
surely succeed. But in coming to that
conclusion he overlooked for the mo
"HEBK'H MY PABT OF THE SPREAD."
njent the well known fact that she was
not like other girls and that the best
laid eggs as well as the best laid plans
"gang aft aglee."
They had spent Easter eve together,
and the time had come when he should
take his leave if be did not wish to
break the Sabbath. But as be stirred
as If about to go May said:
"I have a cake of my own making
that I want you to try before you go."
This was exactly the opening he bad
been wsltlng for all evening.
"Thank you," be said. "And I have
something of my own cooking that I
want you to try."
"Something of your own cooking?"
she asked, opening her brown eyes
very wide.
"Exactly, and I hope you will enjoy,
it."
"What la It? Candy?' '
"I didn't know candy was cooked. I
thought it was Just made."
"How witty you have become Bince
you went to the city!" she retorted,
with a mock bow.
"Oh. you have no idea," be replied
calmly. "Now you go and get your
cake, and when you come back I'll
have my spread ready."
May left the room, wondering what
on earth was coming. Of course she
rather expected a present or souvenir
Of seme kind from him after he had
been corresponding with her for some
months In as affectionate a vein as she
would allow.
After she had left the room Harry
stepped out Into the ball and took a
neat little package from his overcoat
pocket. He placed it on the table aft
er unfastening the cord with which it
was tied and waited for May. She re
turned presently with a plate of cake
and n tray bearing steaming cups of
toffee.
"Here is my part of the spread," she
laid, "nnd if you don't like it I am
ifrnid there will be trouble."
"And here is mine," he said as be
pushed the box toward her.
May opeued the box with as much
curiosity as might be expected from
an ordinary girl. She found a golden
egg carefully packed In batting.
"Why," she exclaimed, "I thought
the goose that laid the golden egg was
killed long ago!"
"So it was, but this one was laid by
the great American hen especially for
your Easter celebration."
"Oh, and there Is poetry
am afraid that is more than I can
swallow."
Harry blushed modestly while she
read aloud:
"Try to est me, and you'll And
My contents show the jtver'a mind."
"Will 'show the giver's mind.' Doeti
that mean tl.at the egg Is not more
than half baked?"
"It isn't baked at all; it's boiled," he
answered testily.
"Tliat means that it has l>een in hot
water. Docs it follow that you are
likely to get into hot water too?"
"I trust not," he replied fervently.
"But, say, this cake of yours is simply
delicious."
"I suppose when I eat this egg I'll
have to compliment It too. But, come
to think of it, nil egg is something that
one should always take with a grain
of salt."
"Not this one," he said eagerly. "This
Is an especial egg."
"Well. I'll have it for brrnkfast and
sec If It Is gold all the way through."
"Oh, it is iK-tter than gold!"
"Better? And it is going to show
your mind, so the poem says. Dear,
dear, I never thought you had such a
wonderful mind!"
"Now you are purposely misunder
standing me."
"On tiie contrary, I am not under
standing you ut all."
"1 wish I could make you under
stand me, Miss Hartley"—
"Why, do you find me so stupid that
I can't understand?"
"No; I simply find you too clever to
let me see whether you understand or
not. But don't save the egg for break
fast. I'erhaps you wouldn't care to
open It at the table with the chil
dren."
"Why shouldn't I care to open a
golden egg If It's renl gold? I am
nfrnld It Is only plated!" she exclaim
ed, noticing a spot where the gold leaf
was rubbing loose.
"I wish you would open it now," 6aid
Harry.
His persistence was Just exactly
what would naturally keep May from
opening the egg to please him, but it
must be admitted that her curiosity
was very thoroughly aroused. Besides,
he somehow 6eemed different from
what he used to be before going to the
city, and she was beginning to feel
a misgiving that she might tease him
altogether too much. Finally she de
cided that she would satisfy him and
her own curiosity by opening the Eas
ter egg. Taking the cake knife in her
band, she took one more critical look
at the egg and then exclaimed:
"Oh, I wish you had put the poetry
at the other end of the egg, for I
would like to save this wonderful shell:
But now I'll have to spoil the verses
while opening it."
"Why, no," be protested. "I put the
verses near the big end so that you
wouldn't have to spoil them."
"But how could I open the egg with
out spoiling them?"
"By opening it at the little end, as
everybody else does."
"At the little end! I never opened
an egg at the little end in my life.'
"Well, it isn't too late for you to be
gin now."
"It is entirely too late when I know
better. Everybody knows that the
big end is the only end to open an egg
at. If you open that end, you have
room to get your spoon in."
"Spoon nonsense. You would think
that one ate eggs with a tablespoon to
bear you talk."
"Well, one would think you bad nev
er eaten eggs at all." she retorted,
"when you don't know which end to
open."
"Hut I do know at which end to open
tbem, and that is why I fixed that one
as I did. My Mother taught me as a
child to open my egg at the little end,
and I have never forgotten it."
"If it had been sensible, you would
have forgotten it, but I want you to
know that my mother taught me to
open them at the big end, and it just
makes me sick to see any one open an
egg at the little end. That's the end
that the yolk is in, and you are always
in danger of cutting too deep and
mussing things up."
"My!" he said, with an attempt at
being sarcastic. "How well you know
the anatomy of an egg."
"Well," she answered hotly, "I know
the auatomy of eggs so well that I have
no further desire to investigate the con
tents of this one, even if it does show
the giver's mind." And she replaced it
on the table.
"Oh, well, I'm sure I'll not insist,"
said Harry, "and I suppose you can
a ■* —ar"^
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THE EGO PELL TO THE FLOOB WITH A
CRASH.
afford to get sarcastic about the giver's
mind. You don't appear to have enough
cf your owu to enable you to open an
egg properly." As he said this he rose
ajigrily. Now, you need not be sur
prised that these young people were so
foolish as to quarrel about the proper
way of opening an egg. We can all re
member how carefully the historian of
the Lilliputians has recorded the events
of the cruel war that raged between
the big Endlans and the little Endians.
A lover's feelings are more soft and sensi
ble
Than are the tender horns of cockled
snails.
So it is no wonder that their tender
feelings were wounded by this trifle.
As Harry rose angrily from the table
he accidentally struck Against It in
such a way that the golden egg, which
May had put down, started to roll to
ward the edge, and before either of
them noticed what was happening It
fell to the floor with a crash. As it did
so It burst asunder, and something
bounced out that could not help at
tracting attention. As it rolled off into
a corner every turn threw out sparkles
of prismatic light. May uttered an In
voluntary "Oh!" as soon as she saw
what the egg had contained, and. for
getting ail about her anger, her face
flushed with surprise nnd pleasure,
dancing up at her from the wreck of
the egg, Harry saw the change of ex
pression on her face, and the absurdity
of his anger came over him like a flash.
He began to laugh and, stepping across
the room, picked up the engagement
ring with Its flashing solitaire.
"If yon won't try to eat my Eastei
igg." he said, "I'd like a chance to eat
my angry worda of the last few min
, utes."
"All right," said May, "and I'll Join
you."
He looked fair into her laughing eyes,
then took her unresisting hand in his
and siip|K-d the ring on her finger.
"Can you understand the giver's
mind now?" he asked.
"Yes," she whispered.
"And do you object to It?" She made
no answer, but it was one of those
cases where an answer in words Is en
tirely superfluous. When he finally de
cided that he "really must go now," be
stooped down to pick up the remains
of bis Easter egg and found that it vim
broken fairly in the middle between
the big and little cuds.
"Look!" lie exclaimed. "Kate has ar
bltrated our discussion. The shell has
broken Just where I had cut the hole
in it to put in the ring."
"That's all right," said May saucily.
"I accept the decision, but I think we
had better have scrambled eggs and
omelets for awhile at first."
Hoped to Strike (he Right One.
"Here are half a dozen prescriptions
I would like to have you fill as soon as
you can," wheezed 111 vers.
"I can see they nre nil for the cure of
• cold," remnrked the druggist, looking
them over.
"It's this way," explained Itlvers.
"When I had the other cold. I tried all
these. One of 'em cured me. but I
can't remember now which one It
was."—Chicago Tribune.
To Be Considered.
"I see that your town has been con
sidering the Idea of Imposing a tax on
bachelors."
"Yes," answered the young woman,
"but we thought it over, nnd we con
cluded that the men might be mean
enough to take the money to pny It out
for what they spend for caramels nnd
thenter tickets."—Washington Star.
Lake Baikal's greatest distinction is
Its size. It Is the largest fresh water
lake on the Asiatic or the European
continent, being 400 miles long nnd
from 10 to 05 miles in width.
Before submitting to the inevitable n
wise man takes pains to ascertain that
It is the Inevitable.—Chicago News.
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She i*r.i me a song ci irium, ... c hjnn of the Easter time. \
<Y - That iwept o'er the chord* of feeling with the of it» V \' l \
I I \ . words and rhyme. rll \ \ ill
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' ' The theme wti of love tha.t conquered, that won in the war V l ,
,j ; with death ~" A I
|| Of hope in a life immortal surviving the fleeting breath. \V ; Jjj
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ml HIM ''FCR* Like a grand. triumphal pean. the psalm cf a love supreme. 1
M/f \ My soul was filled with its rapture-I lived in • strange. \
W 'v; sweet dream. Cj :/ \
l \ / And a calm came over my spirit. • peace without douM ' !j
\M P or fear:
■I . - | (fit on the waves music upraised to a purer ypher;
YRIGtf TBY /?AAV</r/SOAr CO NEV/?OXF< |||f j I
j " T Bright vistal opened before me. demesnes that the foot -./.
(\?) 1 ne'er trod: q} J
I longed for a bliss which only the you! finds in rest with God. \ |
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(ft wonderful anthetn eno. its la:t notes dying away f '
I the youth wind breait.-J Hi promise of verdure and "Jfj
. '■ flowers for M>y- • 0
J> V The jubilant chimes of Easter rang cut with a *!ad refrain. ; I
/ j V 1 felt that for man. as nature, the yprinrfti.r.e wc>jid j JJ
""V come again. V V // V^
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I thought of the risen Saviour. I thought of 'lis v |i
empty tomb. jj
And over the jrtves of e*s-.. I saw • t ' ir.ioat. .'.•»/ >/
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EASTER MUTIS.
BY FRANK TOWNLEY
To make Easter merely a "Sunday
of Joy" would lie to rol> the holy Sab
bath of that reverence always d;ie to
the first day of the week. But reli
gious observances, while always ear
nest, are various, and different people
have applied their own peeyllar hu
mor and customs to the celebration of
Eastertide. Now It Is typical of the
resurrection of our f.ord, again of tin
bursting forth of spring and to pome
folks of lively yet conventional views
the close of a long season of fasting
and denial Among the pioneers of the
American border there was little unity
of religious :11Ii and often not enough
of one kind to set the fashion for s'at
ed observances. But Easter had its
traditions, and there was so little to
make the burden of border life agree
able tU.:t ev,Ty event was seized upon
by the young as an excuse for frolick
lug.
The Easter egg somehow appealed
to all peop.o.of whatever liueaye. An
article of food and commerce, treas
ured like ;: -1J at ordinary times, the
eg- was etcused from fixed duty on
Easter and given o\ir to the carnival
in for all kinds of sport. If nothing
more delirious was thought of. there
wrsi an cgg feast all day. with a menu
of fried, boiled, scrambled or poached
eggs at every men!. Small boys look
ed forward to Easter, or "I'aas," much
the same as to Fourth of July. They
wanted by the hatful, the bas
ketful or tin- barrelful, and they stole
them as shamelessly as city urchins
do the fuel for bonfires.
Dyed In various colors, the Easter
eggs came from hidden stores for the
family feast. and when the amusement
of stealing and dyeing for general use
became to> tame the boys also laid by
stores for a vagabond feast In the
woods. E:;gs were roasted In ashes
and devoured with the relish that goes
with an o-.K of doors appetite. To lend
further zest to the feast the boys of
-one neighborhood would raid the hid
den stores of another. If the party
raitled was a'.ert, there would happen
a scramble r.n fierce nnd bloody as a
football rush. If the contest was close,
then raw or eggs burning hot
were tired into the faces of the com
batants. Perhaps there was economy
in the long run in this recklessness, for
the boys who reveled in an Easter
feast didn't have any appetite for eggs
the remainder of the year.
In olden tlines the church gave to
Easter a festal coloring by letting the
people down t<» their common tastes at
the close of I,< :/\ Witty stories and
anecdotes were told to arouse the
"paschal laugh." With all nature
smiling In spring It was natural that
tlie human heart should open itself to
joyous thoughts.
New clothes on Easter Sunday Is an
olil custom. An ancient verse runs in
this strain:
.At Kantr-r let your clothes bo n»>w
Or else l<«; sure you will It nip.
There were many superstitions about
new clothes for Easter, nnd Shake
speare records the custom. Vanity and
the dictates of fashion due to the
change of the seasons may be at the
bottom of the modern notion of don
ning new gowns and bonnets at Eas
tertide. but it is also a happy and Inno
cent way of expressing Joyousness.
Lent Is over, pleasure may resume Its
sway, and woman should imitate the
trees and the plants by putting on
fresh adornments.
The maids and swains of Ireland in
the good old days Indulged In what
they called the "dance of Joy" at the
dawn of Easter. Happiness is a cure
for evil, and perhaps in the evolution
of creeds and customs the great spring-
I tide festival may become again a car
1 nival of in-.njecnt merrymaking for the
devoutly religious as well as the secu
lar world.
m mioi wis
BY A. B. LEWIS.
[Copyright. JSCS. by A. n. I^ewls.]
Mrs. Dubbs hadn't lived with Mr.
Dublin twenty-live years without know
ing his peculiarities. He never made
Christmas presents: he never observed
birthdays; he did not regard Easter as
the proper day bring out new head
gear. Mrs. I iiibbs had always rebelled
about the latter, and the time had final
ly eome when she meant to break out
in < pen defiance. She began long
weeks ahead to cut nickels and dimes
oIT the liouschold expenses and lay
them aside for another purpose, and
when at last Easter drew near she
counted up her savings and found 1 lie
sum sufficient to buy what her soul
craved for. She didn't expect that
Dulibs would be pleased, but if she
got out of it without a solemn lecture
she would l.e more than satisfied.
Quecrly enough. Mr. Dubbs had not
only eonie to the conclusion that he
uceded a new hat, after wearing his
old one for five years, but he so far
went back on. his record as to decide
to I ting it out ICaster Sunday. It took
considerable scheming on his part to
buy a new "plug" and get It home and
deposit the box on the spare bed up
stairs the day before Easter, and, al
though he was home when his wife's
new bonnet arrived in Its bnmfbox. it
was sneaked up stairs Into the spare
room and left beside bis hat without
his being any the wiser.
That evening as Mr. Dubbs was re
turning home from the store he found
a puppy on the doorstep shivering with
the eolil. and lu the goodness of his
heart, for he was good in rtreaks. he
picked u[> I lie pup and carried it in
side. In the goodneCs of her heart
Mrs. Dnbbs welcomed and fed the
stranger, and. instead of turning it out
lu the cold world, she let it remain and
make Itself at home. Shortly before
bedtime Mrs. Dubbs smiled to herself
as she looked over at her husband and
said:
"John, 1 do wish 1 had n new bonnet
; for tomorrow."
| "Y-e-s. and I wish I had a new hat,"
j lie mumbled In reply.
I There was silence for a time as she
I patched a p-'irof trousers and he read
his paper, i.tid then he suddenly start
ed up aml remarked:
j "I wonder where that purp Is?"
"He must be up stairs!" she gasped
| as she looked around.
It was n r :e between them to the
top of the st i "s. and they came out
neck and neck. M
As they sto id In '■ ■ « \>f~f
the door of the ' J J/ '
spare room they ,J j | ~ i
sa wI he dog. He i ip •_
was still chew- j.
lug away, but j tig S M
11: I nearly (In ,
if lied (in the t j ;
bed and lloor j ij | m J
were strips of | "JviM / I-l'
: bandboxes and
j pieces of hat ./
| brim and hat j
crown, and tuln- i|| i 1 j Hal
f fried with them | .Jjfali
j'Z's s m**!}-'
straw and glass _ , 'J
ornaments and - 4' | A
| torn velvet. Tho .yi< / * y\y \
i pup had done hbi
"My Easter
bonnet!" walled lljl.ll
I tho wife.
I "My Easter u I
: hat!" shouted ___H /i
! the husband. ~~^«l —p"" 1 *
And that was ** ■
I (ill all except MR DL'BIIH »'I( KKO UP
i that the pup was TUE I ' up *
dropped out of a second story window,
the lights turned down and the clock
wound up. and as the deceivers slept
they dreamed and moaned and mutter
ed, and Easter day was no more to
them.
A Cynic on Marriage.
Sardines are a delicacy fit for any
epicure, but the other fish was thus
summed up by an epigrammatic Cor
liislitnan: "Pilchards." he said "are
like wives. When they're bad, they're
awful, and when they're good they're
only middling."—Pall Mall Gazette.
Admirable Caution.
Book Agent—ls the head of the house
in?
Servant—Yes; he's in the library try
ing to write a letter on a new type
writer he has just bought.
Book Agent (hastily)—l'll call aga ! n.
African Illvers.
All the rivers of Africa have re
markable peculiarities. They seek the
ocean that is farthest away from
their source. Their course is always
broken by falls, and their mouths are
stopped by numerous sandbanks.
ONE OF WOMAN'S WAYS.
She Hate# to ray Ont Bill* That Are
I lean and Cri»j>.
"Most" women hate to spend new
money," says an observant salesman.
"I haven't tlie faintest idea why this
should be so. but I've noticed it often
right here in the store.
"A woman will make a purchase and
pull out her purse to pay the bill, but if
she happens to have to part with a
clean, crisp note In making up the
amount she looks greatly iinnoyed. I've
seen women with fat wads of bright
brand new bills flustered wbeu they
came to pay for purchases because
they hadn't sufficient old money to
meet the charges. They would dig out
the contents of their purses and stow
the crisp notes to one side, and if they
couh'.n't scrape up the sum in a few
cases I've known them to go out with
out buying.
"Others will give utterance to little
feminine exclamations of dismay and
will hastily pay for the articles select
ed in the new money. Then they will
march off with quite a show of indig
nation, just as if they had been invei
gled into spending the money.
"I know one man who always takes
his salary home in beautiful, clean cer
tificates. lie has caught ou to this pe
culiarity of the sex, and he says it
saves him all kinds of money."—Phila
delphia Itecord.
Cliinr-ne Honesty.
As for the honesty of these people, 1
appeal to every English merchant or
banker from Peking to Hongkong to
answer if he ever heard of a dishonest
Chinese merchant or banker. So far
from that, not only has every English
bank two Chinamen to receive and
hand out money, but every bank in
Japan has the same. The English will
tell you. half in jest, that the Japanese
is an oriental Yankee and does not
trust his own people, and they will tell
you, half in ean.est, that the English
bankers employ Chinese to handle their
money because they never make mis
takes.
These people of China have never
had anything like a bankrupt law. If
a man cannot pay his debts or some
one does not secretly come forward
and pay them at the end of each year,
he has "lost his face," and so lie dies
by his own band. Yet, with all their
piteous poverty, they have no such
words as "hard times," for everything
must be settled up at the end of the
year. There can be no extension of
time. Confucius forbade it.—Joaquin
Miller in North American Review.
and Cancer.
There Is a remarkable coincidence be
tween the spread of cancer and the
largely increased daily consumption of
effervescent wines and waters among
the wealthy classes. Prior to the six
ties champagne as a drink was, even
in higher circles, partaken of but occa
sionally. nor were aerated waters con
sumed in r.nything like the quantity nor
with the frequency that they now are.
These beverages, and Indeed all effer
vescing drinks, owe their sparkle to the
carbonic acid gas which they contain.
My contention is that the upper classes
by their habit of constantly Imbibing
effervescent beverages, which arc solu
tions of carbonic acid of greater or less
strength, so prepare their mucous tis
sues as to make them a favoring host
to the cancerous fungus, if fungus it
be.—London Medical 'l'iines.
I„eatlier Kallnic Ant*.
It Is said that In Rhodesia white ants
destroy boots and articles of clothing
left on tables or hanging on nails. The
following is from a letter received re
cently from South Africa: "On awak
ing in the morning you are astonished
to see a cone shaped object on the
brick floor a short distance from your
bed with two holes at the top. On
closer examination you discover that
the holes have Just the size and shape
of the inside of your boots, which you
Incautiously left on the floor the night
before. They have given form and pro
portion to nn ant heap, and nothing is
left of them except the nails, eyelets
and maybe part of the heels."
The Three Meal Habit.
Our three meal habit is a fearful tax
on our working capacity. It trebles the
temptation t<> overeating. Our cham
pions stagger under the weight of a
physiological handicap. One-lmlf the
functional energy of the system is di
verted by the exigencies of digestion.
No other liygienlc mistake lias done so
much to make us a generation of dys
peptics as the custom of after dinner
work. Its victims, moreover, incur the
risk of contracting that form of moral
dyspepsia called pessimism. It tends
to rob the working day of Its reward.—
Dr. F. L. Oswald in Success.
Il«*r Sorrow.
She—Harry, you said something last
tvening that made me feel so bad.
He What was It, dearest?
She—You said I was one of the
sweetest girls in all the world.
He—And aren't you, darling?
She You said "one of the sweetest."
Oh, Harry, to think I should live to
know that I have to share your love
with another!
An Old Hand.
"What wr.s the first tiling your hus
band said when you gat started on
your wedding Journey?"
"'Excuse me while I go forward and
have a smoke.' You know It was the
third time for him." —Chicago Record-
Herald.
F.t liortrnrrd.
He—Your friend, Miss Dnshwny, has
quite a military air about her.
She -No wonder She has participat
ed In no fewer than seventeen engage
ments.—Chicago News.
/The best part of the Klmberlcy dia
mond fle'il covers nine acres only.
Ilnylnic n Tltli*.
It is not expensive to become a noble
In Ilavarla. To be made a simple "von"
costs a matter of £75, to be raised to
the "rltterstand" £IOO, to be made a
"freiherr" £238, to be made a "graf"
costs £SOO, while to be made a prince
only costs £I,OOO. These prices are only
for one person, but the government
kindly makes reductions in the case of
whole families wishing to turn noble
all at once. Thus for £2,000 or £3.000 a
small family can be made princes,
though they are only permitted to use
their title within the kingdom of Bava
ria. i
fewisite
w < -V- \ \,
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tt~ ASTER comes in
v . ""- |n.m( burst of plant
'«rlk^fvl|Ykfi, growth, when
I»:irk and wood
re fi~t *V our attention
13 WfvfrS anew to the
,¥.ir . kV'i.ii marvels of the
5\ ill Mil ora '
il ft H'v Our old pagan
Sf*. J I/ V'j* ancestors were
/h )yA ' u as observant of
) Jj. these phenome
•' 1 na as we are,
jpuL. ant * at about
the date upon
which we cele
brate the resurrection they held a joy
ful festival in honor of the deity who
personified the opening of the spring.
The early church, with its habit of
adopting as many of the popular reli
gious rites as possible into the new
faith, found it an easy matter to trans
form the feast of the earth's awaken
ing from the sleep of winter, to the re
joicing that Christ should initiate the
resurrection of the souls of men from
the sleep of the grave.
Before the Christian era throughout
Europe blossoms bore the names of the
pagan deities, but with the revolution
of religious ideas the plants had to be
rechristened and the legends attached
to them reconstructed to conform to
the now faith.
Perhaps from a feeling of reverence
but few were named for Christ or any
member of the trinity. We still have
Christ's thorn, which is supposed to
have furnished the material for the
crown of torture.
Upon the Saviour's mother a wealth
of flowers were bestowed. The plants
coming to us with the prefix "lady,"
THE ANGEL GAVE ABEIi THREE SEEDS.
as lady's slipper and lady's tresses,
were "Our Lady's" before abbreviated
by time. Our Lady's thistle received its
naiiMM'roui a legend connected with the
flight of the holy family from Bethle
hem. As Mary nursed the Infant by
the roadside a few droits of milk fell
on a plant at lfer feet, and the leaves
retain to this day the vouchers for the
story. The virgin's bower, marigold,
maiden's hair and all like titles were
originally named for the Virgin Mary.
The fritlllarln, or checkered lily, be
fore the crucifixion was pure white,
with upturned cup. It stood pfoudly
erect during the suffering until dark
ness enshrouded the earth, and it saw
that all nature but itself was grieving.
Theu it bent low its head and douned
garments of mourning and began to
weep. Si ill it hangs its head in som
ber attire and still each petal sheds a
pearly tear.
The veronica gets its najne from a
resemblance to the imprint of Christ's
features left on St. Veronica's hand
kerchief when she pressed from out
the throng and wiped the perspiration
from the Redeemer's brow.
It has never been decided what tree
or trees furnished wood for the cross.
Bede says the cypress, the cedar, the
pine and tin- box, but St. ChrysoStom
quotes from Isaiah Ix, 13, "The glory
of Lebanon (cedar) shall come unto
thee, the (ir tree, the pine tree and the
box together to beautify the place of
my sanctuary." The four woods are
considered symbolic of the four quar
ters of the globe over which the in
fluence of the cross shall finally extend.
There is an old English legend carry
ing the cross back to tho days of our
first parents. Adam sent Abel to an
angel to petition him to show them the
path back to the garden of Eden. The
angel gave Abel three seeds and direct
ed him to plant them, saying that from
their trunks would spring the path to
paradise. The seeds were planted, anfl
one tree at least was flourishing at the
time Solomon erected his temple. Tills
tree was cut down to furnish a ridge
pole, but after it was brought in it was
found to be too short. Then It was
cast aside and lay waste by the pool of
Bcthcsda until It was taken to form
tho cross, which, according to Chris
tianity, will guide us to the paradise
lost fo us by the weakness of the first
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PARAGONS OF DUTY.
Droll I.emenda of Filial Piety as
I'rnrtlrcd In Japan.
The Japanese make much of the duty
of children to puivnfs. In some of
their popular stories they exaggerate
the wholesome virtue until it becomes
absurd. There Is a group of such tales
called "The Pour and Twenty Para
gons of Filial Piety," some of which
Mr. Basil Hall Chamberlain collects in
"Things Japanese."
One Is the story of lhe paragon
cruel stepmother was very fond of fish.
In spite of her harsh treatment he lay
naked on a frozen lake until his body
melted a hole in the ice. He caught
two fish that came up to breathe and
set them before his stepmother. An
other paragon lay incovered at night
In order that the mosquitoes should
fasten on lilui aline and allow his
parents to slumber undisturbed.
Still another, who was extremely
poor, determined to sacrifice his own
child In order to save food to support
his aged mother. He was rewarded
by heaven with the discovery of a ves
sel filled with gold, on which the whole
family lived happily ever after. A
fourth gave her father a chance to es
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tiger which was about to devour him.
The drollest story of all is of Itoval
shl. This paragon, although seventy
years old. used to dress in baby's
clothes and sprawl about the floor. Ills
Object was piously to delude his par
ents, who were more than ninety years
of age, into the Idea that they could
not be so very old after all, seeing that
they had an Infant son.
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THE OLD WELL.
A Story of Moss, Microbes
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lie paints pretty and pathetic word
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of physiology or pathology. When he
sings a song of the old well on the
farm and of the moss grown bucket in
which the water was drawn, he hasn't a
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