| Show a Y A WOMAN TIT ILL canyon and meadow menlo mil mu millinery H un cry shop hn and con cOli confectioners have havo long bug celebrated ed oil et thin coining oC or the Master time In n II perfect array of or color It bloom mini Hill nile meadow hlO put on 0 their mantel of or orl l lint III holding son service In bubble gurgle of or sprint stream in and is OS the imre liquid I hiu Id nots 1101 of time the InrI The lio canyon Mopes sire yellow with dogtooth yin 10 lots lets und and buttercups but while time the delicate husk oi 01 o spring beauty Is peeping hUi hl h where time tho last II I are nrc melting bonnets hULl and elegant znna are doing honor to 10 the tue show windows pro ore elO they 1111 join in time the parade arnde of the great Christian festival flora Is im III In nil alt her beauty hul radiance ond splendor from rom mom the tho Ih florist windows w 01 before tho the final 1 arrival of mE that holy day lIa when hiko n a I l she wafts sweetest e at III it the rite confectioners everywhere chickens coops coop of them nests of ir I them Huffy and aims yellow ollow anti and ducks duck and rabbits rub bits and amid oh ohm yes tho thio egg aid I to t t one ono who cleverly describes It AM ho sees It In Iii tho tue window Pa Paper per eggs and china eggs silver aller eggs em and glided eggs large eggs and small final eggs gIS candled el eg d ands andis Jeweled eggs I eggs In Ism nests of moss nos and amid eggs ega III In beds bs of or flowers eggs decked out nut as liS manikins and amid others opening to 10 dh slim close a n whole brood or of tho feathered tribe eggs with rith laco Inco paper end bearing a Il burden of sweets oth others ers HS daintily fashioned to 10 servo serve MS jewel cases co sell eggs glowingly colored colore and I I Most of or the tue eastern people with festival this title period of or time tho vernal venial equinox Tho Jito hull Itoh of or the lIll Hindus was ns hold isell hll l In iii March rime Tho I isis Iris rejoiced over flier Quins at nt this period when tin time passing of o time the sun Sl over tile tho collator brings back b ck to the warmth summer gladness in new and amid bud hlll budding ding lUll life The h Gorman commemorated comIl the tile return of with an abundance of tiE display IIa Thus mitts underlying ag time limo and a ad place Inn nn guage n 11 era ell and race Inel limo tho same recurrence of some custom clI lom stands out omit like Easter of time tho present plesent lIt day and through It tho th same golden olden thread to 10 One who truly lives Ues Quoting further from rein this writer on Iho limo Easter time limo whose name nt It the tho plC writing Is not miot known eggs bacon hacon were verc a n favorite Ill c article ot of diet In III tho timo good old od days d of tho tito eggs which were freely Creo ex ox exchanged changed as its gifts wro vero called pace paste or eggs coming from n asia paschal tho tile name given to 10 Kast I cr or In countries using time the Roman lan languages 1 It II being derived through the Greek from tho time Hebrew word wore mean meaning lug ing passover r tho Jewish feast occur occurring ring at al about the tito same time an tilt tho festival On Good Friday known us its Black Friday II I long ong Friday I Passion 1 Friday Still Friday Friday and Punch Pasch of Cross hot lint cross crONS buns formed part of or tho the breakfast The he day da before borolo Easter Haster was Willi devoted to 10 a general cleaning tile tho house was and set imet In III order ordel u ii charger of hard imari boiled hollee eggs egg was vas sent to 10 the time church chUlch to 10 ho be blessed the bacon hacon and custards and nil II tansy cakes tansy a n nhit hitter bitter hit tel boris used by b the Jows the tho new clothes set get out Dill for Cor not to 10 wear weal distinguished by 11 tiny sketches or nus sages ages of tiE K good od will timid and kindly friend friendliness liness a thousand and one une variations vane of ot the tho statue same theme have isaic hll 1 tempted shop shoppers items pers and led to their thell undoing In III a financial way vay wa Vor Jor who that has Imas a achild 1 achild child In the tho house could W II resist the time marvelous Ingenuity of or limo iho many man con colts cull which call out almost clamor clamorously the good news newts that springs greatest festival tho the Lord Lorti of oC Feasts in us II nt Lit hand 1 this sanio sno clever writer tells UK till II probably derived Its name from that of or IV a II pagan al goddess Eastri whose fes festival the tho celebrated In the tile month of lC April which they the called In lit hinr vir honor I Whon hen Chris bris Christianity Christianity wa was brought to the tho It tt Itla ItIs Is la not unlikely they confounded their old ohl Id time limo or 1 festival lIml with that which tho the church observed ob erYe In memory of the tho resurrection anti and gradually oily ally its 1111 tho the now new faith supplanted the tho old olti tho th wan imP forgotten but h hoC hor r name namo was given gen to tho the day which time the church e imet t aside an as n one of rejoicing According to the tho th old Saxon Ij Lenton l handed down from rom the season lUIon In which It III is observed Lonton means spring amid Is not only tho the beginning of or longer days but time the fast East pro pre precedIng cedIng Easter Eister 1 As Ass wo se all know or 0 should know this tha Ih Jewish as solemnized for or 40 43 days InA from ilIR no ISO doubt linn come down lawn through tho tim ages agon time the custom of or tho the annual fast In commemoration of or nil all that thai kid lod up tip to 10 that j triumph of oC life lite over death Many nations have observed tho tim spring as 1111 n 0 I festival time when whan time tho returning un brings to life tho the dor dormant mount mant forces S chilled Into death by h I win In tors harshness Tho rise by b an silt annual nual games In lii honor of or Flora accompanied by II supplications supplication for or on silt tho Brass gm trees 1111 A flower 1111 timid and other oilier products of tho time earth during the tho your year rite Tho Greeks likewise J fertility on oil tho tile coming of o tho the spring with ninny many man ceremonies The Tho Druids lighted urn sacred tires fires at nt timo tho period of or time the vernal ernal equinox now new clothes on J meant amoUnt bad bod luck Iu k to 10 tho the unfortunate one through throughout out tho Iho YOUr year In Ireland time tho beginning of ur time the day dayi with tho tin was WIH i welcomed with Out Omit Leist and time the peasants averred tho tim still HUH danced with Joy JO in honor of tho the resurrection In lii the time Catholic church most sol solemn Is la time the service of o Iho time Thursday Friday anti and Saturday preceding Huster I altel called culled meaning gloom Lights ale aro extinguished Impressive ot of the darkness that shadowed time the earth and to tim deepen time the ceremony silence reigns In tho tile church Darkness anti fasting vigil pen pon penitence melm tenee I mourning g and amid solemnity y Pro pre preceded ceded tho the day da In iii memory memol of time the great gloat passion when time tho Son SOli of ci Man Ian suffered for or the time sins of or mankind but tho time day tia Itself was itoH III ushered d In lit with every sign of or gladness and amid Joy JO Music lights Ugh It can 1111 candles cues Illes unworn plays tho tilo pealing of bells tho the singing of or orjO jO enrols the limO exchange or of gifts III the tue liberation fit if prisoners tile the giving of or nuns alms the lIlt of o games nil tho Iho methods that tho Iho fertile mind of man amen could 1111 conceive to 10 express his isis Joy for tho time promise of life lito fulfilled III in tilt Ihl resurrection were iere called Into Light and life have triumphed over ovar death and ami darkness I LADY |
