Evcu More l'o;>uinr Now I linn When
We Boiled Tliem In Cnlleo.
Notwithstanding the advent of the
rabbit, the egg continues in undimin
ished popularity as the emblem of Eas
ter. The crude, homely practice of
coloring hen's eggs In the country dis
tricts at Eastertide is increasing, rath
er than losing Its vogue, and in our
cities Easter times see the develop
ment of all sorts of expensive and ex
travagant novelties, in which eggs,
real or simulated, figure extensively
Our shops are full of these novelties
and one can find value for any amount
of money, small or large, that he wish
es to expend for them. They appear
extensively, this time in the Jewellers
shops, both in this country and Eng
land.
Eggs, In which costly presents are
rlaced, are mere papier mache shells
covered with hand painted satin. Fre
quently, however, a lady will order a
plain, white satin egg, to be painted
upon by herself, and then return for
filling and dispatching. Returned
travellers will bring in ostrich eggs to
fce painted ard filled; and an egg of
the; extinct g 1 -jat auk is described by
the Strand Magazine as having passed
through the lands of a big London
dealer in such novelties
The record <gg, as far as size is con
cerned. was »ecently manufactured by
a London II m. Its shell was entire
ly of choco:ate, nine feet high and
eighteen feet In circumference. It held
about a ton 'if superfine confectionery,
besides the whole expensive trosseau
of a South African millionaire's bride.
A great number of the wedding pres
ents were also packed in the egg. The
sweetmeat part of the order, including
the elaborate external decoration, cost
£SOO. The packing of the filled egg
was a work of art, and the whole was
insured for many thousands of pounds
before being delivered on board a Cas
tle liner at Southampton docks.
Easter eggs worth SIOO,OOO have been
eent out by the same house, but the
value, of course, lay chiefly in their
costly contents.
Of couise, to some extent, topical
events affect the designs of Easter
novelties but the craze must be some
thing which can be fashioned into the
shape of an egg. Thus, a bicycle
wouldn't do. But a motor car has
been prouueed. The motor car Is one
mass of chocolate, weighing eighteen
pounds.
I have seen in Paris Easter eggs as
big as ai. ordinary door. Not all
6weet stiitf, however. One, I remem
ber. was merely a huge shell of inter
laced cane or wicker, which was to be
filled witt moss and stuck all over
with fresh lowers —a costly and beau
tiful ornament for a lady's boudoir. It
cost 1,500f.
A very 112 >nny Easter conceit is pro
duced by ai, American designer in this
way:
About a gross of hen's eggs are
bought and blown; the contents of the
eggs, by the way, are sold very cheap
ly, at so much per quart.. The blown
6hells are next taken to the drying
room and left there a few days, before
being weighted or balanced. This is
done by pouring in through the hole
a little fine shot, on top of which is
poured melted wax.
The eggs are then stood on a pe-rfect
ly level surface and allowed to settle.
Then they are placed in the hands of
an artist, who judges from the shape
of the egg (and tho shapes vary) what
character shall be imparted to it by
means of oil paint.
Some Ancient Ranter Custom*.
Years ago the celebration of Easter
was invariably accompanied by many
very quaint and interesting observ
ances; but few of these customs have
been brought down unimpaired to the
clcse of the essentially practical nine
teenth century, and are, therefore, lit
tle known to the present generation.
The sending of Easter eggs still re
mains in vogue, but this custom, too,
is slowly but surely dying, being prob
ably killed by the more popular and
less expensive Easter card.
The exchange of eggs at Easter was
formerly a religious observance, the
custom dating back to the very earli
est days of the Christian Church. In
many European countries, notably
France and Russia, it Is still religious
ly observed. Among the Russian peas
antry the exchange of visits and eggs
on Easter Day is very common, being
accompanied by the salutation "Christ
is risen!" the usual response being
"He is, indeed!" In France, begging
for eggs on the part of the village chil
dren is very popular, while in Itaiy
hundreds and thousands of eggs are
blessed by the clergy, previously to be
ing distributed among the people as
charms against many spiritual and
bodily ills.
rolyglcl Menna.
No restaurant in St. Petersburg will
be allowed hereafter to have its bll.
of fare exclusively in a foreign lan
guage. By a recent edict a Russiar.
version must always be added.
Katter Clilckeni.
Dr. l>uck—Tour feathers are just to«
pretty for anything.
Henrietta—Yes; ycu see 1 was hatched
from a dyed egg.
Lizotte?
Yes, that Agenalse lassie, half pens
ant, half world! ng, who revealed the
sweetness of woman's presence to the
little thinker and dreamer that I then
was.
I must tell you thai they are good to
look upon our glrla of the Gascon
country. They have not the rather
hard type, the accentuated Greek type,
of the Arlesienr.es, but their tall fig
ures are less supple, less stocky, their
more humid eyes have more sweet
ness.
Lizotte was an incarnation of this
I charming and piquant type.
When I became her friend I was 15
years old. I lived la Fontgrane. Ev
ery day I went to the parsonage to
take a lesson in Latin from the Abbe
Destourbes. The Abbe was a kindly
teacher, a lover of Virgil, whom he re
cited with devout intonations, like a
I prayer.
But what was best in the parsonage
! was Lizotte—Lizotte Destourbes —the
little niece cf the abbe, the daughter
of the Destourbes of Agen—he who
kept at the corner an important estab
lishment of fruits and candies. Liz
otte was some months older than I.
She loved fun like a. child, and none
the less did rot disdain from time to
time to play the lady, as she paced
along the sidewalk on Sundays, at
tracting much attontion from the
young fellows.
Unforgetable days, those Easter hol
idays in the parsonage at Fontgrane.
Never Vince have I made such tremen
dous journeys nor su:h curious ones as
! those which I then undertook with
Lizotte in the attic of the parsonage—
a real wilderness of entangle J beams.
Further, it was the season of ap
proaching Easter.
I recall above all others a certain
evening of April, at the commence
n*nt of Holy Week.
Lizotte and I wero enjoying a holi
day on the plea that we had to attend
to decorating the church. I dined pleas
antly enough at the j)2rsonage between
the Abbe Destourbes and the littlo
minx, who amused herself by kicking
me on the shins under the table. We
had finished the frugal repast that
was served up for the Lenten period,
and had already left the table when
a messenger came to call away Abbe
Destourbes to a vety eld lady who was
very sick and wished to make her con
fession.
He instantly donred his overcoat,
; took his hat and stick, and sallied out
with the final instruction that I was
not to leave Lizotte alone in the par
! sonage, for, the nigiit being dark, Irma,
| the housekeeper, p.icompanied het
master, lar.tern in hand.
The charge gave nie great pride, but
i at bottom I was forced to own to my
| self that she had in me a rather poor
| defender. She was at that time far
braver than I. Taking me by the
i hand, she drew me into the intermina
i ble, winding corridors of the house,
then into the cool solitude of the nave.
She whispered into 12y e:ir at the same
time awful stories of {hosts, whose fa
vorite season, as <3 well known, is
Holy Week, for enjoying themselves
in consecrated spr.i:). Suddenly she
burst out into a song, her fresh young
' voice accentuating th t vowels in the
! Languedoc fashion.
Come, divine Messiah,
Bless our unfortunate days!
Come, source! of life,
Come, come, come!
But when she cewed the church an
swered to her voice in such horrible re
verberatory echoes tin-1 we madly flee
back through the sa?ristry and the
1 long winding corr ciors to the dining
room of the parsonage, where we fell
into chairs, affrigh:nd and laughing ai
our fright.
Then as the Abbn Destourbes did not
return, Lizotte enu Derated to me pi;
the presents she i 1 d received on hei
birthday, which foil thu year on Palir
Sunday. At last, IQ r little friend rose
from her chair aud iv-jiit on tiptoe tc
open the bul'et at tie dining room
; She drew from It i box of whiti
wood, which she laid cautiously on the
tabic.
This box was a present which Liz
otte had brought from Destourbes
d'Agen to his brother, the cure. A
hundred of the finest prunes were ar
ranged side by side In layers of twen
ty, upon beds of laced paper. The
prunes which Lizotte had brought
were phenomenal ones, large, meaty
bursting with juice and IUSCIOUB and
perfumed. The girl was right in the
pride with which she displayed these
products of the paternal business. At
to m-3, 1 should have wished to c6m
pare their taste at once with their
fine appearance. But alas! the slight
est theft would be easy to discover.
The prunes fitted in one against the
other like stones in a mosaic, and
(doubtless because such luxuries were
interdicted in Holy Week) the abba
had not yet touched them.
After a long and contemplative
i lenre Lizotte said:
1 "If I let you taste one of these
prun is what would you say?"
I readily acknowledged that the ex
periment would be very agreeable to
me.
j The little minx made that gesture
1 which signifies in every language,
"Wait a moment; don't stir." She del
icately lifted out of the box first the
I upper layer of prunes, then the sec
j ond, each in its bed of paper, took a
prune from the third, carefully re
plr.Td the two layers that she hnd
taken out, then closed the box and put
It baelt In the buffet.
All these maneuvers were executed
with an ease, a perfect mastery, whlcb
filled me With admiration.
. But now LlzOttS had returned to me,
holding between two fingers the stolen
prune. She began by appropriating to
herself at one bite exactly half of the
pruie. This seemed to me entirely
equitable. Then, Just a3 people offer
sugar to a lapdog, she iendered me
the other half in her red finger tips,
amusing herself by withdrawing it as
soon as I approached my mouth to the
morsel.
A pretty game! My lips caught with
out retaining sometimes her nails,
sometimes her brown fingers anii
sometimes the list of my little friend
Then I seized Lizotte's ar m, I snapped
the prune, but when I had swallowed it
I still held imprisonedxthe slim little
hand with my lips above It.
Oh, that exquisite hour of innocent
caresses! All who have known such
an hour know also, I think, how to
love most delicately. Almost swoon
ing away, I murmured:
"Oh! Lizotte! I love you, I love
you!"
Suddenly Lizotto thrust me away
from her. She turaed a little, hiding
her held with her arm. Astonished;
I raised my eyes. I saw the Abbe Des
tourbes standing in ths frame of the
doorway. He was looking straight at
us. He was very red. The scene of
which he had been a witness had un
doubtedly disturbed hiin violently, for
his breviary was hanging from the end
of the little piece of cloth in which he
usually carried it, and the devotional
pictures, sliding out of the pages, were
whirling around the floor like choris
ters escaped from a sacristy.
Ho said severely:
"Pick those up!"
Lizotte did not stir. Half turning
her back, her head slightly bent, she
was nervously playing with her fin
gers on the strings of her apron. I
noticed ihat her shoulders and her
chignon shook.
"She is weeping," I thought. At
present, having deeper thought ou this
matter, it is my opinion that she was
laughing.
Sheepishly, I picked up the sacred
objects and replaced them in the bre
viary. The abbe did not scold me. Ho
contented himself with saying:
"Go home to your parents. It is
time for you to be in bed."
After this event I was no longer al
lowed to play with Lizotte. That was
an awful grief to me. but you may be
sure I spoke of it to no one, and so I
began to know, before love itself, the
delicious suffering of love.
At the Easter season, when the holi
days arrived, I still saw at the church
and afar off the pure profile, the supple
figure, the knotted kerchief of Lizotte.
But, alas! never more did she laugh
at me or box my ears. Never more
did my lips touch her brown hands.
All this happened long ago. Never
theless, when I visit Gascony. when I
walk in Agen, I sometimes meet Liz
otte.
Only Lizotte is a woman. She has
married a notary. She wears a hat.
\nd she is no longer Lizotte.
Color UllmlneM®,
It has been scientifically proved that
a woman's color perception much ex
ceeds that of a man, while men, as a
rule, have a keener sense of smell.
Women's training in the details of
dress doubtless accounts for much of
this superiority. Men, however, who
were almost color blind have yet
shown surprisingly good taste in the
selection of dress goods for their wo
men folks.
While on this subject of color, one
may mention that a popular lecturer
or. dress advised women to wear
"street gowns the color of their hair,
house gowns the color of their eye*;
and evening toilets the tinge of their
complexions."
Another Frenk.
"That young man of yours," said the
observing as his daughter came
down to bre jMit, "should apply for a
job in a dime museum."
"Why, father," exclaimed the young
lady in tones of indignation, "what dc
you mean?"
"I noticed when ! passed through the
hall late last night," answered the olc
man, "that he had two heads upon hi
shoulders."
A Boxful of Or«lcr«.
It Is stated that the King of Slam,
who recently visit sd Euroj-e, has had
to have a ercclal bos made to hold all
the insignia of the distinguished orders
conferred on him by brother moil
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The following "news item" published
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pretty good temperance lecture:
A carriage containing four well
dressed men in four stages of intoxica
tion Htopped in Union street, near Sev
enth avenue, Brooklyn, at about 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. On the
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