fHEY sat together on a big boulder, in a daisy field, and the summer sea stretched blue and sparkling in front of them. They were a man and a woman, and they were making love to each other, or they would not be worth talking about. The lorja-making was of the unadmitted, unier-the-surfaco sort, so far. He broke off one of the big white flowiJru and put it into her hand— with care, as if she oould not manage her own hands, and he had to open and shut them for her. "Tfy your fortune,he said; "let's see if the daisies are to be trusted." "I hope they can be trusted not to tell the way you are trying to hold my hand," said she, but she did not say it or take her hand away for exactly seven seconds. "Try your fortune) let us see whether to believe in daisies or not." So she began pulling off the petals. "Heloves me; loves me not; he loves me; loves me pot;" and with each assertion a slim little leaf dropped in har lap. It was coming out, "He loves me," and she played false, and pulling the last two together made it "Loves me not," and then sat help lessly waiting—obviously waiting— for the contradiction she had in vited. Well, it came, not with any fine speeches, but with two or three broken words, and a timid grasp of the little hand he'd been so bold to gra»p about two minutes before, and then there was the old touching miracle of a new heaven and a new earth. That was the way they got them selves engaged, and very naturally, as they were young enough to take pleasure in sentimental notions, they called daisies their flower, and made {huoh of the part the one sacrificed had played in their drama. "It's not what you might oall a rare blossom," said Phyllis, with an affectation of the critical, when they were sitting again on the same boulder and adopting the daisy as their emblem. "It's because there is no limit to them that they suit for my part of the love in this business," said Dick Tyson, with more sincerity than clear ness or elegance, but Phyllis found the sentiment satisfactory. These particular lovers were not born to overthrow the tradition that true love never ruus smooth. They quarreled in a month; of course, they had quar reled before that, but in a month they had a row that amounted to some thing. "Mr. Allison rowed me over to the point to-day, and we gathered mussels there for an hour," Phyllis said, one day, as she settled herself in the stern of Dick's boat, and Dick answered, heartily: "Nice fellow, Allison;" and then, just as Dick was giving his at tention to getting clear of the landing and into deep water, Phyllis declared that it seemed to her as if they were making a great mistake, they were not meant for each other, and so on, in a tragic voioe, trailing one hand in the water and fastening her eyes upon it. Her heart seemed to faint away in her breast as the moments brought no denial. At last Dick said, still row ing: "Yon must mean something by what you say! Is it that you think you have made a mistake?" Phyllis controlled her breathing by an effort as Dick spoke, and then she said: "Are you giving me a chance to say I have? Is that what you want?" "I want to hear it if it is true," said Diok, leaning on his oars and setting his teeth. To him it seemtnl plain enough that he was waiting for his death sen tence; to Phyllis it seemed that he was crushing her with his indiffer ence. What oould that mean but that he did not love her, was giving her the woman's privilege of breaking with him? "Very well, then, if you wish it, it is true," was all even her pride could drive her to say. "If you wish it, it is true." Surely no man would take that for a sincere renouncement! But feeling real emotion makes peo ple very poor judges of the weight of their own words or anybody ebe's; and Dick was feeling a great deal. He did not grasp the exaot form of the sentence. He heard the strange, hard voice—tlie voice of a woman on the verge of hysterics; but lio did not know that—and the words "it is true." He rowed back to the landing, and without wafting for assistance, as an older woman certainly would, Phyllis sprang out and took her way to the house. CHArTEB 11. Phyllis was sitting before her easel in the antique room of the Art Stu dent's League. She was working on the worst drawing in the whole room, and though she had no more talent for drawing than she fc:sd for political economy, she knew enough to guess as much. She had been suffering from an attack of womau with a big W. She was never going to marry, never, and she would carve out a ca reer for herself and be an indepen dent soul. , Two girls were chattering behind her. Said one: "You know Dick Tyson, don't you?" and Phyllis drew her charcoal across her paper in a way that gave a squint to the Greek deity she was working on. "He's just back from Europe. He called on my aunt, where I live, the other day. I used to know him when I was a little girl, but he's grown locs handsomer since then. He's coming to our house for dinner Easter Sun day, and he said he was going to our church that day to see my new hat, and come home with us afterward," and this odious girl giggled self-con sciously. Phyllis was torn with conflicting emotions. She gratified herself in more ways than one by having the accidental misfortune to back into that very girl's easel and knock it over; she then, with her apologies, managed to strike up an acquaintance THE EASTER FAIRY. with "her. The next was Ejster Sun day. What more natural than that the talk should turn that way, and that the girl should tell about the music they were going to have at St. Elizabeth's. Easter Sunday that year was a day that made itself famous. Never was more weather to the hour. It was cold, and it blew and stormed a little, and sleeted some, and rained a good deal. Phyllis got up and looked heart brokenly out of her boarding-house window over a world of wet chimney pots. On her dressing table was a bonnet, a bonnet that had absorbed her attention for days, and that showed more artistic ability than any master at the League ever credited her with. She had made it herself, partly because she knew exactly what she wanted better than any milliner could, and she had very clever fingers and understood volumes about the be coming, if she could not draw. The bonnet was made all of dai3ies —great white, yellow-hearted daisies —and there was a daisy pin to fasten the strings with. There was no law against her having a bonnet, was there? No one need attach any signi ficance to that, surely. But it was a lovely bonnet, and now such a Sunday! "Dare wear it'" said the Dragon of Respectability, who always fought PHYLLIS WORE HER OLD BROWN HAT. with her. "I should think not! No one will be lunatio enough to wear a spring bonnet to-day, and perhaps by next Sunday you'll have matured enough to make your bonnet suit your years." "Don't you think any one will wear spring bonnets?" Phylliß asked sotto voce of the good-natured man at her elbow. There was such a curious note in her small, plaintive tone that he turned and looked down at her with a little curiosity, and then he said, that dear perjured man, who knew that he did not know a thing of what he was talking about: "Of course they will. Many ladies always do, no matter what tbeweather; they look upon it as a sort of religious duty," and he twinkled at her; but Phyllis never had much sense of humor, and now there was no more'in her than in a catechism. Phyllis had never before regarded a man's opinion on feminine attire but —but she thought this was a very sensible man, a man with a peculiar knowledge of the world and nice taste; and at the proper hour one solitary Easter bonnet—a daisy bonnet—took its way to St. Elizabeth's under the protection of an umbrella. That evening Phyllis went to church again; a boarding-house parlor is such a bad place for any private conversa tion that even the street is better. The storm had not abated, and Phyllis wore her old brown hat, and had a beau for her only adornment. "Thank God it was such a stormy day," Dick whispered in her ear, "for if that blessed bonnet of yours hadn't been the only light one in church I'm suoh a stupid owl I'm afraid I mightn't have seen it; I might not have seen you—oh, Phyllis, Phyllis darling!" "I was mortified to death when I saw no one else had one on," said the young lady in candid accents. "If I'd dreamed tbat you were on the con tinent I suppose I'd have gone home again rather than have risked your seeing mo make such—such a guy of myself. But just for my own feelings I've loved to wear daisies some way ever since" She stopped. "Thank God you didn't know, then," said Dick fervently and sin cerely. He was just as big a fool as ever, but Phyllis did not mind this time. I, Awaken, sweet flowers! \ The snow in valleys has melted at la9t. And the desolate night of the I { year 19 past; The ice-chains are broken, the robins are singing, \ Awake to the call of the / Easter bells ringing! / Paaclial Candle's Symbolism. The Paschal candle is the name given to the light which appears on the Gos pel side of the altar during mass and vespers from Easter to Whit Sunday. It symbolizes the rising from the grave of Christ the "Light of the World." In the year 1457 it is recorded that the candle used at Canterbury was of 300 pounds weight. There is also men tioned as a matter of history that on one occasion the Paschal candle in the church at Norwich, England, was so tall that it had to be lighted through an opening in the roof over the choir, The Rabbits ami tlie Keg*. The little folks believe the rabbits lay the Easter eggs. With the dawn the small members of the family are up and searching for the nests of multicolored eggs, over which a little white rabbit sometimes presides. But a candy one calls forth equal shrieks of delight. An Eastnr Prayer-ltook. A prayer-book ordered for a popu lar young woman is of elephant skin, with silver corners, and the clasp iB a tiny silver rabbit. The elephant skin is the latest fad and is u dull brown, which harmonizes excellently with a smart tan frock. I 8 ITS CUSTOMS. 8 BASTER8 ASTER is a mova ble festival which is celebrated an fenst was in an cient times devoted toEastre, the God dess of Spring, and the whole Easter month was set aside to do her honor. Socrates attributed the introduction of the festival of Easter in the church to the perpetuation of an old usuage. * * * The observance of Easter dates back to about the year 68, at which time there was much contention among the Eastern and Western churches as to what day the festival should be ob served. It was finally ordained at the Council of Nice in the year 325, that it must be observed throughout the Christian world on the same day. This decision settled that Easter should bo kept upon the Sunday first after tno fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, but no general conclusion was arrived at as to the cyclo by which the festival was to be regulated, and some churches adopted one rule and some another. Tbis diversity of usuage was put an end to, and the lloman rule making Easter the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon was established in England in 669. After nine centuries a discrep ancy in the keeping of Easter was caused by the authorities of the Eng lish Church declining to adopt the re formation of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582. The difference was settled in 1752 by the adoption of the rule which makes Easter Day always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens on or next after the twenty first day of March. If the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter is the Sunday after. * * * Pretty customs which have obtained in recent years are the decoration of the churches on Easter Sunday, and the sending of gifts of flowers to one's friends, to invalids, and to the hos pitals, and the distribution of the pot ted plants used in the churoh decora tions among the sick members of the congregation. Another custom has obtained, which should not be allowed to degenerate into extravagance, and that is the sending o'f gifts at Easter. Among all the quaint ceremonies which characterize Easter Day the practice of giving presents of eggs is doubtless the most ancient, as well as the most universal. Eggs have been associated with Easter always. The Jews believed them to bo emblematio of the Passover; the Egyptians held them as a emblem of the renewal of the human race after the deluge, and tho Christians as the symbol of the Resurrection. In ancient times the eggs would be boiled hard and dyed, then olergymen and laymau alike would play ball with them, and after much sport eat them. The simplest method of coloring eggs is to use the aniline dyes, or to coat them with metallic paint and frost them with diamond dust, or to cover them with gilt, silver or colored paper. To make an Easter egg with a faucy head, blow the egg hollow and thon rub the shell gently with benzine to make the color take. Then give it a complexion wash to suit the character. Then hold the egg with the small end down and paint the face. When this is done glue the egg into a hole cut in a piece of card board, placing a tissue-paper bat on its head. A pen-wiper may be at tached to the card. Egg caricature is another popular idea in Easter-egg decoration. Pre pare the eggs as before, and paint upon them a caricature of a man, woman, child, crying baby or Brownie. Spool thread of either black or yellow may be attached by a little wax and will serve as hair. The funnier the faces the more delighted the children will be. A simple way by which the little folks, unaided, may prepare Easter eggs for themselves and their little friends is by tying up each egg sepa rately in a piece of bright-colored silk or cotton, having previously pasted on the surfaoe of the egg some little design. Have the eggs boiled slowly for half an hour and then set aside to cool. When quite cold untie the covering and the eggs will be found nicely colored and with an im pression of the design clearly repre s nted. These eggs may be placed in egg-cups which have been lined with fringed tissue paper, and placed upon the breakfast table on Easter morn ing. There are countless other Easter conceits, such as nests, birds and chickens, all of which may bo evolved with a little ingeniutv, and will bring joy to tho children's hearts on Easter morning. And children should early be taught the significance of the holi day, and encouraged to remember the children m the hospitals, to whom a little nest of Easter eggs will be a re minder tbat it is Easter day. Virtue of im Earner Wiiul. If the wind is from the east on Easter Suuday an old wives' super stition bids one draw water aud wash well id it. If thi°. is done all attacks of rheumatism for the ensuing year will be avoided. The lowest grade of molasses, which is unsalable, is used as fuel. Over 100,000 tons were used iast year. HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES. Cleaning White Fur Rue*. White fur rugs may be snccessfullj cleansed with naphtha if properlj used. Wet a small portion of the rug at a time with naphtha and rub 'v it) a soft cloth until the space is cleaned Then rub another piece and so on un til the entire surface has beeu cov ered. Hang in the air until all odo! of the naphtha disappears. Above al things take care that the gas is not lit in the room where the naphtha is be ing used or that the work of cleansiu is not carried on near a fire. Kerns for Table Decoration. A pretty table decoration recently seen was accomplished by pressel ferns. The centrepiece was of grow ing ferns, and strewn in careless but artistic profusion about the clot! were pressed specimens of the sami green. The fresh ferns cannot be s< well used for this purpose, as th< leaves would turn and wrinkle. The present variety is obtainable at a flor ist's and may be used more than once if properly put away in flat boxes o between the leaves of a book. Destroying the Water Bug*. It is dangerous to use the sures method of getting rid of water bugs, that is, bichloride of mercury solution used to "paint" infested places. Bui :iine, patience and powdered borax will meet all but the worst cases. Bprinkle the borax wherever tho pests are likely to find their way, as along pipes, cracks and angles, around the Bilges of shelves,etc.; they will dimin ish in number and at last disappear. It is surprising how keen these little pests are to avoid substances which Liave been doctored for their benefit, but a patient course of vigilance and cleanliness will drive them away. Sometimes they are only parulyzed md not killed outright by the poison, [n the morning the infested places should be gone over early and all the j lead and partially paralyzed bugs be : swept up aud burned. The smoke oi ' burning gunpowder is said to be ieadly to them, but must be used with ;he utmo'st care iu small quantities, dampening the powder first and burn ing it iu a fireplace. A Proper Clollirs Closet. A woman who investigated how the I mnnmerable suits aud jackets are | laken care of in the shops where these ire offered for sale discovered that ; '.lie necessary economy of space comes | Iroin the use of metal rods upon which ;he garments are suspended on wire langers. She promptly applied the j iame principle to her own limited sup ply of closet room, with the result '.hat she is able now to utilize the waste space that can be found iu any j :lothes press, however small. From i i near-by plumber she got all the gas | nipe tubing she needed cut in the re quired lengths. These were mounted n the closet by simply securing them on the hook boards, taking care that i >hey fitted snugly between walls, l'wo or three do/eu of the cheap wire dangers completed the closet outfit, ind now'skirts and bodices, wrappers uid jackets, are kept within easy j -ouch in compact space and iu good iliape. Ju particular is the parloi I lloor closet, when thus equipped, I found to be much more useful, for ibere may hang the reserve overcoats md heavy storm wraps of the entire | household, which have heretofore ■ jften proved too bulky and unmau ! igeable for it.—New York Post. Recipes. Bean Croquettes— Mush the beans 110 a paste, season well with melted j butter, pepper and salt; add one beaten egg and enough crackercrumbs to make the paste thick enough to liould. Form into balls, dip into oeaten eggs and crackercrumbs aud fry brown on both sides. Chocolate Blanc Mauge—Dissolve >ue half box of gelatine in water. Put one pint of milk into a saucepan and when it conies to a boil add one cupful sf grated unsweetened chocolate and twelve tablespooufuls of sugar. Add the gelatine just before turning into the mould. Serve cold with sugar md cream. Mutton Ragout Put one table ipoonful of butter iu the fryingpan, dredge in a little flour, add two small sliced onions and fry a light color, putin a few thick slices of cold mut ton aud fry a rich brown, then add a uupful of cold water, a half can of peas, pepper, salt and a little butter, »ud thicken with a little flour. Bread Sauce(for Turkey)—Put one aalf pint of milk into a saucepan, with one small onion, and when it comes to a boil stir in one tablespoonful of fresh white breadcrumbs which have been rubbed through a sieve. Boil foi fifteen minutes, then remove the anion; add two teaspoonfuls of cream »ud season with salt and pepper. Serve in a hot tureen. Apple Fruit Cake—Soak two cup 'uls of dried apples over night in cold water. In the morning chop them fine, add two cupfuls of molasses and | *tew for one hour. When cold add one cupful of sugar, three-quarters of ?upful of butter, two well-beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in one cupful of salt and one teaspoonful of cream of tartar iu two and one-half cupfuls of flour. Bake for one hour. Broiled Beef and Oyster Sauce- Put into a stewpan twelve oysters with their liquid strained, add three ;loves, a spoonful of butter, salt and pepper to taste, a half teaspoonful of Hour, and simmer for live minutes. Have ready in the centre of the dish » round wall of browned potatoes, into the middle of tlii* pour the oystei sauce and around the outside place dices of roast beef which have been previoiicJy browned. Garuish with parslev. WHEN LOVE LIVES. When all tbe world, for Spring's sweet sake, Its festal robe of green put on, And flowers were gay in field and brake Because the Winter's power was gone; Within tho white-pearled hawthorne tree You heard the mated thrushes slug; You hud no word to say to me, For all your thought was of tho Spring. Ani when a thousand buds uncurled A thousand scents your garden knew, Vnd when the wonder of the world— Tbe Summer world grew clear to you; i'ou heard the skylark overhead Between green fields and sky of blue; fou had no heart for mo, you said, Summer had won your heart from you. But now the woods grow thin and brown, The dry ferns shiver in the breeze, The year puts off her bridal gown, Puts on her mourning draperies. Down in your orchard robins sing; Ah ! Can you bid me go, my dear? For Summer's gone, and gone'is Spring; "lis Love alone lives out the year. HUMOROUS. An Irish philosopher says it's a wise man who Lias his ufter thoughts first. "What frightfully tall collars Harry Higgs wears." "Yes; he can't see that his shoes are not blacked." "We didn't have time to stop, so ive bought a lunch and ate it as we drove along." "Ah, I see—you dined a la cart." "I rise for information," shouted in excited politician. "I am very glad to bear it," said a bystander, "lor nc uian wants it more." "Your daughter has a rather pecu .iar name." "Violetta Jerusha? Yes, but the grandmothers slie is nameJ after are both rich." "Mv first dumplings !" she exclaimed: AniJ she looked so very sweet lld was carried away and protested. '■They look nice enough to eat!" "I can't goto jail," said a funny vagrant. "1 have no time." "The court provides that," said tbe magis trate. "I give you ten days." "The .Tinkle girls have given up all ;beir social ambitions." ".Money run out?" "No; they couldn't teacli their mother to say 'candelabra' Teacher—You must know "book" .s neuter gender. When did you ever hear of a masculine book? Tommy— I've heard of "hymn" books, miss. Magistrate (sternly)— You're a piti able specimen of humanity. What brought you lo all this degradation and disgrace. Prisoner (proudly)—l< took three policemen. ('holly—l'm the only one left in Loudon. Grace—Then why do you stop? Cholly—Why I wondered how Wobinson Cwusoe felt and I wanted to liud it out, don't you know. I'here are poem 9 unwritten and songs un sung But don't let this fact get your nerves all unstrung; Tis economy wond'rous for midnight lamps \nd think what an awful saving of stamps. "I trust," she said, patronizingly, 'that, you are a true artist—that you confine your efforts to an elevated plane." "Assuredly I do, madam," was the reply. "I am a frescoer, and invariably work with a ladder." "You say," remarked the pedestrian, 'that you have vainly wished for work." "Many a time," answered Meandering Mike. "What is youi favorite occupation?" "It all de pends 011 where I happen to be. In Oregon it's pickin' bananas, and ir Florida it's shovelin' snow." A widow went to the office of the nsnrance company where her late husband had insured himself in order to receive payment of her claim. Dur in ue conversation which ensued the iierk remarked sympathetically that he was very sorry to hear of her hus band's death." Whereupon slie fair ly staggered him by remarking, "You men are all the same—always sorry when a "poor woman gets the chance of 1 little money." Promenading in Munilii. The Caljada, in Manila, Philippine Islands, is an odd sight in the latter part of the afternoon, when the day's business is over and the air is cooler. Every one is there, and, as nearly I 3very one knows every one and has 1 more time to be polite than folk have | in some other paris of the world, the jrowd is in a state of continual saluta tion. The newcomer fears the prome naders have got to going so they will not be able to stop, but when the grand bells of the cathedral toll for vespers he will discover his misappre hension, for every one in that great throng will bow or kueel silently, with uncovered head, and, before he has realized what he is looking at, the throng is nodding right and left as in dustriously as ever. The native women dress prettily,and .112 they have money, very expensively. They wear only two garments—a short chemisette, coming hardly to the waist, and a sava, or skirt, made 112 a single piece of cloth, and wrapped tight ibout the figure. The material is pina. from the fibre of bronielia, a kind of pineapple. The best quality is ex quisitely tine and is transparent. A single sava will cost sometimes a? much as S2OOO, a scarf S2OO and hand kerchiefs from s2"> to SIOO. The threads are so light that great care must be taken in the factories to pre sent gusts of air from tangling the lelicate strands. History'* Grcateat Kanquet. The greatest banquet in liintory „*ook place on August IS, 1880, when the 40,000 mayors of France sat at table in Plais de l'Tudustrie in Paris. There were three relays of about 18,- 000 guests each. To prepare the feast required 75 chief cooks, 1300 waiters, scullious, cellar-men and helper.-*, 80,- 000 plates, 52,000 glasses, knives, forks aud spoons in proportion,4o,ooo rolls, and fish, meat and fowl by the ton. The bauquet was part of the centenary celebration of the events of 1789.
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