Show w1Y EijijS ARE PRESENTED AT EASTERo < Legends and Stories Associated With the SeasonHow the I Day is Celebrated at RomeWhy Lilies Are So Extensively t Ex-tensively Used in Church Decoration on Easter 2 t i I New York April I Easier eggs are 1 being bought by the thousand i brightly I bright-ly colored with various tints they will I A be presented to friends find relatives on the lawn oC the White UOUHC at Washington children will participate in the uwal cggrolliirg frolic But not I 1 many oC all the puicbasera givers or J lollcra of Easier eggs will atop to think what the eggs arc meant to typify or thinking 6uld know The Easter egg Is used so extensively at this reason because It IB symbolical 0 1 I of the springing forth to life ol the I springtime and of the breaking out I from the shell of winter oC llowcra and ti ecu The custom of coloring the eggs in avery a-very old one and there IB no dcllnito Information legardlng Ha origin As L to the nvwilmr of the coloring It probably prob-ably ha no significance In Scotland It used to be the custom for young men and boys lo get up early on Easter Sunday and go hunting for wild fowls eggs The finders were thought to be assured of good luck for the rest ct the year Prom the Christians point of view the eggs have always boon considered as emblematic of the resurrection resur-rection and of the I future life Many legends and stories old strange and incredible are connected with Easter Sunday An Irish peasant will tell with many wise shakes of the head that the sun danced In the heavens heav-ens on that day and children must getup get-up before It rises in order not to miss the beginning of the happy spectacle In ISast > Yorkshire and many other parts oC England It Is considered unlucky un-lucky not to wear new clothes on Easter day To sec a lamb on first looking out of window is a good omen though It Is believed In rustic England that it Is always lucky to see a lamb or a dove for those are the only hnpoa ale aiehenemy of the human race dares not assume t If the wind Is In the cast on Easter Sunday Ills considered In Germany to I be a wIse plan to draw water and wjush In Irior then the wind cannot do any harm to the bather durjnp thc majn 1 der of the year An old proverb about Iaaler wathC1 Is A good rlal of rain on ISaelor clay I GICK a crop of good gratttt but llltlo good hay At Homo the day is ushered in with he I firing of cannon from the castle of St Angelo and about 7 oclock In the morning carriages filled illh richly dressed occupants pour toward St PctiVs Formerly the pontifT officiated On his head 1 he wore a Jeweled tlaia and his vestments blazed with gold e wan escorted to his throne by soldiers of Hs court the Noble Guard lining the way When the Sacred Host was elevated the military men dropped on their knees and presented arms and the NobleR drew their swords mho silver trumpets were then sounded After mass there was a great deal of I the same kind of ceremony and civic and religious festivities followed The cardinal archpriest now says mass and the Pope officiates at a private pri-vate mass In the consistory within the Vatican U is said that the reason I Eaoter lilies are the flowers chosen to decorate the churches Is because of I rhrlstB allusion to the lilies of the Hold which ho nnoke of In his sermon on the Mount telling his hearers to consider them I will ronslclor Theo and melt my cares In the bland accents of hH soothing Volt 0 Who from thu hlllb of Palestine looked around For a lair spoclmon of skill divine And polntlnc out tho lily of thc held Declared tin wisest < of all Isrsiel kings In his full glory not arrayed HUo then less people who see the multitude of lilies used on Sunday In the adornment of churches will iodize what has been the labor of bringing these lovely lowers from the places where they were grown or oven what care has ben necessary lo force them Into bloom for this time of year America uses Tor all kinds of decoration but especially especi-ally for Easter ten times as many lilies or lowers an any other country A llorlst has said that this Is not an Imported fad but an original one The lilies that aio peculiarly Easter lilies are in bloom in their native soil in Bermuda at this time of year and yet there in tho Innd of flowers an American uomnn was astonished a few years ago to llnd that no flowers were placed upon the Unit of the churches on Easter although the worshipers could look out through open doors and wlndous to whplu Holds while with llllen and to hedgerows showing a wealth of blossoms Many of the lilies used here have Informer In-former yon is coma from Bermuda having been sent as buds packed well in moss When put In warm water these buds will quickly open and thus nunntlLlcs of lilies are obtained with little trouble Flowers raised In this country are grown from the bulbs |