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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. "fen. IJaster ITAII Comes Are on Iteeord as Even Great Makers of the Dru.-Employing Their Genius for tlie Small Purpose of Plaguing Enemies. U Different Characters A Womans Utopia Natural Law lH 'T'HE tf)b()iet By ED WNO (MfVtfC. HOWE u list empress of Russia a g'Mt woman; never a breath of acandwl atuiut her. Bit devoted o her children, to her church, and actually loved her husband. Every day of her life aha did charity work, or talked about 1L She believed In tending mlaalmiarle to convert the heathen. She loved art. and llv.-- lu an emotlniinl and atmosphere all her life, to the entire neglect of practical common che and education; the talked Incessantly of Justice for her and actually treated them so badly lh.it finally they beat her to death, together with her husband and children. Knther ne, also of Russia, wna not a beautiful character; In fact, good deal of a torn boy, but no one ever Charged her with being a fool. She mga so much devoted to common sense that he Invited Voltaire, master of It, to her court ; the hid against Frederick the Great In an attempt to buy him, that he might give her auhjeeta the benefit of his wisdom. No fortune teller or mystic were admitted to her circle of friends or advisers; had she Invited a Rasputin to her court by the back stairway, she would have slapped his mouth had he talked the nonsense Rasputin tnlked to the last empress of Itusxia. I dont know there Is any moral to this, hut It Is a curious Incident In history I often think about u sub-Ject- 1. That youngsters be taking part In any April Fool pranks on Easter arent likely to Ey ELMO SCOTT WATSON year Yuu iic Amerha has problem on its hands, pur Castor comes on April 1 and. ns ever) body April 1 Is April Pools' day. So. what to do, what to dot J Shall the silrmn significance of Faster Sunday as s religious feslivnl prevail during (he day, the beaut, of Its symbolism unmarred hy nny sacrilegious shouts of April fool I" hr shad tin youngsters exercise tlndr right to 'fKiof' cin-l- (itliiT and their eider on this dn Wliu'li. hy tradition and hy cilMoiu, Is dedicated to H.o piaotltal Truly, It Is a "pcrplcxtiii proldom of ioiidui'1'' and one nondors how Hit' mil mho It to tlio sat 'fad Ion of both them-Shos iiiol tlndr tddors. I sm li a situation doo-orti.rritidy. nr ' very oficn. 1 lio ru'es h.v which the ilato of lia-tSunday Is tiod allow tills to liappt oi i.v a In 'Ui in ory II years. Within (ho moniory of iimipo.p now living It has liappom1 till four tin ps. In 1m;iJ pastor Sunday oatno on April 1. nga.ii in 1877 and attain In ISsS, I o ienilv It would sppui that the next time woul' bo In I'd dl hut, tliio to t he vagaries of our cal ondar. 4lio eleven-yeaold rule didnt work. For In it was ono day olT that schedule an Easter Sunday In that year canto on April 2. It didn't pot hark on t he cloven your rotation until Ih-wboti Pastor Sunday and April pools' da tt coincided. Hint happens apalti this year and will happen again It years from now In lilt Although latstor Sunday and April Pools' day t, so far ns the ossontin poem utteily spin! of e::i h Is eonrerneil. It is intoroMihg t note that. they trace hack to si nil lar origins religious festivals among the an clouts oolo'iratinp the coining of spring. Although wo inodorns have changed the form and the moaning of those festivals, we have retained some of the very same symbols wliieli those ancients I CLl c i i ' J"l-or- 1 n' Ir 1 r & -t ; kV7i inooii-iMon- - i. f 'if T7i V'-'TC- '. f; Used. The eeleliratlon of April Pools' day Is usually traei'd hail; to the festal riles of the period of the vernal equinox in Persia. It was the day when the Persian New Year began and was very .. . close to the dd Pnglish New Year's day of March 25. The sun was then entering Into the sign ot the frisky ii ml playful Aries, so it was appropriate that on that day the season of rur III sports and vernal delights' began. In India there is a similar eelohration on March 31 called the Hull festival, which was H time for a 'i SC general ludid'iy and many Jests, Including the practice of sending people on long and fruitless errands. the Orient the custom came into western Europe many centuries ago. The ancient I tomans took delight in planning all sorts of practical Jokes in connection with their feast of the Saturnalia and more particularly in playin harmless, though often very humiliating Jokes, on each other nt the time of the athletic tournament, held in honor of Neptune, around April 1. one solemn niitiipiarlnn lias declared that the first big April pool joke in history was the time the Homans invited the Sabines to attend this Neptune celebration and then carried olT by force the Sabine women. Just ns April Pools day had its origin In pagan festivals, from which it has departed a Ion way, so did Paster have such nn origin. The Christian peoples of the world, of course, celebrate it as the anniversary of the resurrection The association of the rabbit or hare with of Christ, hut in some of its elements, includ Easter lias Its foundations in the ancient belug that essential one of n resurrection. It traces lief in European and Asiatic countries that tlie far hack heynnd the beginning of the Christian harp is the symbol for the moon. - The moon is era to the religious rites of several different the watcher of the night, and the ancient peoples. It is associated with the vvor Imre is a nocturnal animal. Tlie young of the ship of Astarte. a goddess of the Phoenicians, hare are horn with their eyes open and are said Isis of the Pgyptians, Pinna of the Creeks and never to close them. Since the date of Easter is Homans nml Host re of t lie Teutons. governed h.v tlie moon, it is easily seen how the In fact, there are some who say that we get rabbit, which is tlie symbol for tlie moon, came tile name of paster from this Teutonic goddess, to lie an Easter symbol also. l.ostre. who was worshipped in the spring, As for tlie egg, the Egyptians regarded it as an others claim that it is derived from flip emblem of tlie recreation of tilings and of mens word east, one of the four cardinal points. It regeneration and associated it with tlie worship Is also the cardinal point which has always of their goddess. Isis, as did the Phoenicians, been most important in nil religious ceremonies tlie Creeks, omans and Teutons with their of all races and creeds. This is because it is the who were tlie objects of their veneration part of tilt heavens where the sun is seen to n spring festivals. rise tlie sun. brinecr of light and licit, the Then. too. tlie egg with its life germ destined very giver of life itself. Tlie most primitive in to produce a living creature when warmed by tclhrenee of tlie most primitive man recognized tlie mother lien Is easily associated with the idea the tact that the sun and life were inseparably if tlie earth blossoming forth tinder tlie warm associated and it was only natural that when ays of tlie snn in the spring, both closely akin he came to worship tlie tiling which was greater to tlie general idea of resurrection. Since the than he, he should turn to the Past whence urreetinn of Christ occurred in tlie spring, came that greater and higher thing which he t is easy to see how tlie symbols of tlie egg and revived life in tho springtime came to lie recognized as being the life giving power. The symbols which we have retained from associated with this event in tlie history of these pagan festivals to nssoc'nte with our cole 'lirist ianitv. The egg as a symlioi was taken hrttion of Paster Include the vvldte lily, the ralv ver h.v the Hebrews ns un emblem of their hit and the egg. The Creeks and Homans pri'od from bondage and next the early Christ. the white lily above ail other flowers nncl in ies took it over as their symlioi of tlie their earlier civilizations it hail already come to symhnli'O purity and virtue, hence an appro Mention of tho Hebrews makes appropriate at priale symlioi for a festival celebrating renewed this point comment on the fact that tlie feslife. tival now known as Easter was celebrated by V, vv Mi open-eye- jM d s reMir-eetion- i day. Theyre having fun of a different kind at tha annual Easter on the lawn of tho Whito House. 2. This could bo cither an April Fool Joko or an Easter symbol. It would b a better Easter symbol If It looksd mors like an Easter lily than a calls lily. But It Isn't either. Its a Hollywood star wearing a strikingly original costume, to if you think it'e a real lily, the joke' on you. 3. Can rabbits lay Easter eggs and. If to, la that little bunny responsible for such a big egg? Or it it just another April Fool Joke? The young lady in the picture it wondering! 4. Don't be deceived by the wise took on the face of this Easter rab-biHes probably thinking up a joke to play on Easter day which it also April Fools day this year. t! r t 'Tx--, Poe's Graphic Sketch' of Wiu&hickon Beauty Howe About: Artists Painted Comments Idea of Utopia," wife writes, Is to have her husband far smarter than she Is In the necessary activities of life. Such a husband earns more money than she could, and siiends nnd Invests It with better sense. He makes It possible for her to he with InterHe esting and Important people. flatters her constantly, and considers It definitely his business to make her life a success. She has time to keep herself decorative. , . . This will flatter tlie men a little, and the poor devils get so little of It I have gone to tlie trouble of reprinting It. A woman's When It fame !o "getting your own hack," the paint brush may easily prove mightier than the pen. Our great artists nowaday seldom descend to "jierioinalitlea In Ihelr paintings, but litis was a common trick among even (he tint rank men ijot so long ago. For Instance, that eccentric genius, Whistler, never hesitated to use all his powers for "getting Ids own hack." lie was admittedly an adept In the gentle art of making ene- mle," anil hi resentment at real or fnnchal Insult took at times a fantastic form. On one occasion he quarreled with the gentleman for whom tie had painted the famous Peacock Room," and took Ida revenge hy pulntlng a life sire sirtrntt of him at n devil, complete with hoofs and horns. Similar was the unenviable predicament of Sir ltoiwrt Slieard, a gentleman noted for his penurious habit, wlm, hy Incurring llie resentment of llogurth, found himself depleted In one of Hint artist's pictures as a miser sitting In Judgment on a dog for robbing Ids kitchen. On lids coming to the cars of Slieard's eon. tlie latter repaired to tlie painter's house in his absence und destroy ed the canvas. On another occasion s portrait of a nobleman which Hogarth had painted was returned to ( he artist s I icing nothing (Hitter than a gross caricature, and payment refused. Tlie next day the peer received this let- ter: "Mr. Ilogarth beg to Inform hi lordship that If lie does md send for his picture within three dnys It will be disposed of, with tlie addition of ARTIFICIAL SILK MERE IMITATION OF REAL THING Tlie news that the world famous firm of CotirlauM I to build more artificial silk factories in Lancnsltire comes nt nn appropriate time, for tlie fiftieth anniversary tills year of (tie registration of tlie first patent of a process for producing artificial silk on a commercial scale. la those fifty years a revolution In elotlie lias taken place. The output figures prove Its extent. In 1S!1 the total production of tlie new wonder fabric was nlniut SO.tSKI pounds. Today it la in tlie region of 500,000,000 pounds. Like most great Inventions, artificial silk was brought about hy strokes of luck, and much patient work on tlie part of several men over a period of years. It was some children making chains of cherry stones hy rubbing out fibers from the stones on a grindstone who gave a German weaver the Idon of the nierhanlerl production of wood pulp. Today wood pulp is the origin of viscose artificial silk, for your stockings really come from trees. Tlie Invention of guncotton, or, to give It tlie scientific name, nitrocellulose, was another step towards artificial silk, fifteen years later. Then Count Hilaire de tiiardon-net- , watching silkworms, noted the way they made their silk, nnd tried to Imitate the process artificially. Using tlie pulp of mulberry trees, he made cellulose, then nitrocellulose, which he squirted through tiny I lull and some other little append-ages- , to Mr. II re, the fmnnua wild-- j beast man; Mr, II. having given that a conditional promise of an evhihitlnu picture ou Ida it lordsldp'a refusal." Tlie money was promptly paid and the picture removed. Wlilte engaged upon h!a picture, "The Taking of Soura," Horace Yep ' net received a rati from a niemlr, now (Icn-as- i d, of the Rothschild family, who a'keil him what lie would charge to paint Id portrait. Upon being Informed that ffl.ouO was the figure, he cried angrily, I I won't pay auch a ridiculous price." "Very Well, replied the artist. "Some day I will make portrait of ynti for nothing." i And he was as good at his word, for there ami then lie painted the great financier's face Usio the hodr of a flying rltlr.cn. In whose hand lie placed two money hags eavh marked (l.rsst." A piilntuig of himself In the act of holding Id nose with one hnnd, while with the oilier he pushed wny a dili of fisli, wa tlie covert threat of Sit Joshua Hey Hold to Robertson, Ids on the latter's pressing for payment of a longstanding account. a horrified; Tlie poor tradesman stn-a work must be a ipprcssril, or all tlie world that knew Idm for Sir Joshua's fishmonger would credit the painters Innuendo. He therefore had to sacrifice his money nnd acquire tlie sketch hy cancelling the bilk A case of the paint brush . Lonbeing mightier than the don Answer. j fr "Ni-nen- Bhrn Edgar Allan 1ue lived and worked In Philadelphia from 1838 to 1814 Hie scenic beauties of tt Wl aahlckon valley Impressed tlie poet 0 much that he gave a vivid description of the region In sketch with himself as the narrator. The tale, entitled Morning on the Wlssaliiekon," meale Poe drifting in a skiff upon Hie surface of the stream during a sultry summer day-Ihalf slumber he lets his Imsgh nation conjure up visions of the of Indian day, "when plo nh- were undreamed of." Tho picture I lo striking contrast to the popular conception of the unhappy genial who wroto such morbid work a "The Haven and "Tho Murders In (ho Bus Morgue," while living at 530 North Seventh street, where the one hundred and twenty fifth anulveriiary of Id birthday wu recently celebrated nt a brilliant gathering of writers and other notuhl-- . The occasion also marked tlie opening of the Ioe hunso a a shrine to hia memory. Extolling tho beauties of the poo declared that were K flowing In England It would bo the theme of every bard, and the common topic of every tongue. If, Indeed It hanks were not parceled off In lots at exorbitant prices, as building site fur the villus of Hie opulenL" n n d Animals Take Few Rivkt hunters rejiort that wild animals seldom die from aceidcntfk The elephant weighs a couple at tong; he tine a thick hhle; when nroused, no living thing can withstand Idm, but he take no ebuneesx I there not a lesson to be learned In this for human beings, who are se much weaker! We In America are thought lews; both as drivers and ns pedestrians, we take wanton chances with our lives sad with the lives of others, it oat accidents occur either on the street or In tho home, Curtis Billings suggests that mankind should learn the lesson of safety from the animals, for bavs holes Into heated air as a silkworm learned when fear Is not they cowardice. exudes Its gummy silk substance. Ilygeia Health Magazine. This gave him filaments of a stuff 1SS4 lie patlie Imped to weave. In ented tills But Hie French government would MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS not allow him to manufacture, beMrs. John Kenlto of cause Ids silk was highly Inflammatoo Na St John s St. H Casper, Wya. Myt: ble. For five year lie worked lo rewa In i weakened, runmove tills danger. Then followed two down condition. I wM nervous didn't terribly years of experiments lo overcome real well and bad a heavy 1S01 of but small in the ache my difficulties, hy production . back. I tufffrrd from Ir- artificial silk was being made. Today V regularity, feminine weak- nraa (female catarrh) a4 Its manufacture Is one of our greatwould get nrh awful est industries. London Tit Bits. hfidaehea. I tued Ir. Pierce's Favorite PreBig gam on js-n- prce. - j script ion and H relieved me of the female From tlie beginning of tlie human trouble, headaches and pcrvounwm" Franklin's Many Honors race every man of reasonable InBenjamin Franklin was honored hy telligence has finally admitted that many organizations for his ability CRISMON & NICHOLS natural law la tlie supreme power, and accomplishments In various lines ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS and cannot be changed. What we ft. West cenOffice soand Laboratory for of activity. The British Itoyal ancient Israel as the Iassnvpr many call the Capitalistic System (and Temple 81, Halt Lake City, Utah. P. O. turies before tlie birth of Jesus Christ. It was which so many say Is tottering) la ciety awarded him the Copley gold Ho 1708. Mailing envelop and price based upon the events which took place when natural law. Every race of men has medal, and Louis XV sent Idm his furnlahed on request. tlie Hebrews were saved from tlie destruction practiced It, hated it; millions have appreciation; both Harvard and Yale which was visited upon the Egyptians, as given said there Is no death, hut every conferred on him honorary degrees OLD AGE PENSION INFORMATION-in Exodtts 12:27. The first Christ Inns, being one has defeated his own arguof M. A. ; he was elected a fellow of mi stamp LEHMAN sIlIMig Uembolrtt, in tlie main Jews, continued for a long time ment by dying. . . . Get food, tlie Royal Society of London ; the to observe tlie Passover as well as other ancient clothing, VirIn of nnd William College Mary extract from life shelter; ceremonies. Hut gradually these early followers such comfort as Is In It. That is ginia made him a M. A.; tlie ScotPARKERS of the cross began to substitute tlie Christ for the law of Nature and of the Capitish university conferred a D. L. deHAIR BALSAM the paschal lamb of Israel in the Passover ceregree upon him; he was elected a talistic System. Living In Idleness OwDuvei Dandruff Stop Hair Falling monies. member of tlie Philosophical society Imparts Color and off the neighbors Is tlie doctrine of Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair Eventually there arose a difference of opinion a rebel thrown out of God's kingand $l 00 at DruwRiFta. Edinburgh; Oxford conferred the deC'riVl y ( iwn Wki Patch nruef N T. Sri fTIwcog between the Christians of Hebrew descent and dom. gree of D. C. L. ; lie was elected FLORE6TON SHAMPOO Ideal for qm m those of ('.entile descent as to the time vvtien of the American with PhilosophParker'eUairBalsam.Makeeth connection president and fluffy. 60 cents by maii or at drni these ceremonies should tie celebrated. Those ical society for life; the Academy of hair toft At one time Silerins was In effect Hiaco&Cnenucal Worka, jiau. of Hebrew descent declared that the day of tlie Science of Padua, tlie Royal society death of Jesus should he the date of the eliding dictator of old Rome. Silerins noof Paris, nnd the Medical society of where says tills In his writing, hut of tlie paschal fast, which In Hebrew rites London all elected him to was on the fourteenth day of the moon in the Introduction to the memoirs says Silerins was head of tlie and army, (lie evening. Therefore the Easter festival, which followed, might fall on any day of the week. close adviser and friend of the emReal Bitterneo a man. weaker In that anThose of Gentile descent, however, wanted tlie peror, The worst disappointment you can first day of tlie week, Sunday, to be tlie first cient time Silerltts was in the posifewest Hotel tion of the modern Mussolini In experience la disappointment In day of the resurrection festival. Thus the Friday or Hitler In Germany, alpreceding would he observed ns the date of the Italy, crucifixion without paying any attention to the though not an equally great brawler. Silerltts confesses In his memoirs day of the month. that were he free to completely orFor 323 years the difficulty between tlie Christians of Jewish descent nnd those of Gentile der the affairs of the penplp, he descent continued. Not being able to decide the could not think of a plan better recurrence of Easter, tlie council of tlie early than the plan they had worked out REAL ARTICLE Means Christian church finally appealed to the nstrnn for themselves. He often thought, i. oniers In Alexandria. Egypt, for aid. However, he said, of an Ideal world, hut the the scientists were not of natch assistance, for old human nature always Intruded, they had no lunar tallies such ns we now have, and he could agree on no plan that Of Bayer would probably work better. GENUINE computed by master mathematicians. They atSilerins was a vigorous, adventempted to make rules, hut tlie variations of the Manufacture ASPIRIN full moon in reference to the year would not turing man with women, and cause Easter to fall on Sunday any more than thought much of better relations beany other day. All wanted It to come on Sunday, tween the sexes, but concluded at so each nation celebrated to suit itself so that last that a new and better way, When you go to buy aspirin, Remember this for your own it would come on that day. Titus in A. D. 3S7 offering less quarreling and sufferiremember this: Every protection. Tell your friends just tlie Gauls celebrated Easter on March 21, in ng, could not be devised. 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths The tablet of real aspirin of about it for their protection. Italy it fell on April 18, and In Egypt It fell on charges of the men and women Demand and is manufacture Radio connection in every room. Dayer 25. April he against each other are true, stamped with this cross. No get Genuine RATES FROM 1.50 Eventually the selection of a certain Sunday said, but I can think of no remwithout this cross is Bayer Aspirin, i tablet was definitely fixed In the Sixth century A. D. edy. Just opponu Utmmom Tabtntack GENUINE Bayer Aspirin. It was designated as the Sunday between tlie In his time the political parties ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. fifteenth and twenty-firs- t Safe relief for headache, colds, sore throat, days of tlie moon in tlie were distinguished by colors; the first month of tlie Jewish lunar years. It was radicals were called pains of rheumatism and neuritis, etc. blues, tlie condirected that the computation should he made servatives greens, etc. He sided Genuine . Bayer Aspirin Does No i Harm the Heart to wemf n. the tables of Victorias of Aequi according with neither; charges of both were taine. introduced in 457 A. D. Because of tlie true, he decided, as were the fact that P.ritain had ceased to lie a part of tlie thnrces of the poor against the rich, Household Hint Serioui Objection Not an Eaiy Mark Homan empire, tlie Sixth century decree did not the charges of tlie rich against the The one obection to being regardIn baking pie shells over inverted Even If It ends in nothing more affect tlie British church nt first, nnd it conwor, hut he did not bankrupt his ed ns a groat thinker is that you pie tins, prick bottom nnd sides of than target practice, an Idea Is some tinued to calculate Easter on a basis previously ov eminent trying relief as have to be dead too long. Los An- pie shell pastry. This will enable thing at which to shoot Toledo plans, Home. nt The matter was finally dis- ic could think out no approved remedy prom-Muthe shell to hold Us shape. Blade. geles Times. posed of at a synod held nt Whitby in Yorkshire success. 47(71 A. I)., after which the clergy of tiie British in Isles conformed to the general practice of tlie western church. I have long observed that w hen I Accordingly Easter is now observed by hotli nn out of condition I cun get CENTS A PACKET IS ALL YOU PAY tlie Homan Catholic and Protestant churches on jronipt results hy eating less ; hy the first Sunday after tlie full moon (or foura meal or two, and hciiav-nFOR teenth day of tlie moon) on or next after March better In other . . . l. So it cannot he earlier than March 22 nor There are a few things the hulk of later ttian April 25. Thus it is possible for tlie lie people have never learned. One astronomers and mathematicians to tell in ad s that they mast be their own decvance on what dates Easter will come each year, ors their own philosophers their and they are now known for more than a century vvu relief bureau. A great scientist in advance. Tims, too, we know hmv often it is tavs that nothing in the study of AT YOUR that .voting America will lie confronted with tlie he Mars, of the soul, of tlie old NEIGHBORHOOD STORE Every packet dated problem that confronts them this year that of Jrceks, has Interested him as has celebrating on tlie same day two occasions which he study of his own body; of are nt the opposite poles In character even it. subduing it, getting bless-ng- s though thev trace hack to a similar origin. ni'tead of curses rrom It. 1 &, a- . Salt Lake Citys SEE THIS CROSS It the feaaiSfiE.rir'r HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE . g g regu-ntin- Western Newspaper Union. FERRYS $h PUREBRED VEGETABLE SEEDS |