Show 'a ' b 'L " ''i'’rr VAX- ’A’ “e' ‘ t -'4 44 s r t 4'377— - ift ' V " x £4 47 ' tAJU X 1 im ££ - A r f4 444 ' - U -4 JIT' I® “ Si LONG O' 1 I - GIRLSf AND J 7 - ' - 'I ' 1 planned If Irm Easter come I 4 of course by “their elders and held in honor of tho goddess Eastre who the patron goddess of flowers ivai old of old customs the Some the which prevailed at the feast of pagan goddess linger still in the Christian of beautiful our feast of have even Easter and we borrowed of some our practices from the Jews who in the month of Nisan or April kept their festival of the Passover Many and curious are the customs which havft eome down to us are gl firirnfttAri that shine brighter thA on fiim ' 1 end the into the world rainfall means much A Easter new All Easter Sun on '"WSl z deal good of JSh proverb: the rain good crop hay" of II1N Z-xife-sa suit 1 rurts "A good Gives a V aTi v Ve-rw-g-lM Easter day grass but little on shines upon Easter Sunday If the sun rustics will on clear to tell you it -that will shine Whitsunday and in Sussex peasants say that if the sun shines if on Easter it will shine never so day In the year verY custom or using eggs in various ways has always been associated with Easter and making presents of colored in all eggs is common parts of the world renchman has described this A among his own people: “With a people so ingenious in trifles as the Parisians" says ihe “this opportunity the nilffhf nmtcihlsr day but that lit- Easter me llvh— ' : I flf V imTMlt Ill IR ill 1 B PSulbx r civilized best-loved aiHO Over bonnet day Thus celebration r PAPER ' special protection against lightningand an omen of general good luck of In a great many countries the world including our own there is a 8Uperstition that the sun dances for joy Easter morning and hundreds of jm people rise to see this feat of nature In Scotland particularly the people firmly convinced that the sun not are only dances but gives three leaps in honor of the event Whether or not really the sun did dance was a question discussed by grave scholars who time ago before Christ 'was born little children pagan looked forward to a springtime feast very much like our Easter This feast was 3 I f fl : lifa ' : Wot We aster ll Zsiaaffity ’ 44 - 4 W-44:C - -S-To' 4 - I -1 4 '- - -' ' 1mBh 4 BOYS -V 'ar- A - 4 'A" f 1 A- -A 4 i' I"' Jl 1 ji custom is not lost so that that egg-shaped Persians the on certain a festival -and In England cross buns are Good riday and hot always thought of classes rich and poor noble and peasant eat hot cross buns Upon this day as If it were a matter In of duty other days folk thought that if one neglected to eat the buns burned to the his house would be ground within a few months A loaf of bread baked on Good was supposed to cure ailments of loaf was crumbled and put into water after Which the patient drank the mixture if and felt immensely relieved at once from the old records we may judge If one would enjoy good luck from Easter to Easterone must put out one's lire on Easter eve amj kindle fresn one is This a with flint and steel very p'tfes- Ha Ss3 4SK?S- able ' material One would think that the once imperial eagle of rance had all summoned the birds of air to the come and build their nests in shop and deposit their eggs there for go where you will look into whatever shop you fancy there you see see eggs from the size of caraway comfit such as is found in the nest of the humming bird to one as large as an ostrich egg Passing along the streets are women with barrows crying aloud: 'Des oeufs! Des oeufs!’ Why should the egg be so closely in minds with Easter? This our is question which almost every one would like to have answered Of course the egg is one of the most and wonderful and mysterious perfect things in the world In its development of life it is the symbol of the revival of nature after its winter sleep and the glorious springing up of life Partly Christian and partly pagan is the origin of Easter eggs The early Christians looked upon the the symbol of the resurrection egg as as have said but in the minds of we the Romans the egg was connected with springtime sports in which they ran and were awarded races on an oval track These eggs as rewards for winning honor of games were in the mythical twins Castor and Pollux who came forth from laid by a an egg swan to their legends Some people believe the Easter egg custom is takenat from the ancient law of who the time of the the Jews placed on a table two unleavened cakee two pieces of lamb some small fish and a hard egg which was the symbol of a bird called Ziz concerning which the rabbis tell a thousand curious together All tans Kai - 'L'1 ' 3a windows a I riday icj t — HH e‘ -Sis - ’ " certainly could not in the nature of things dance Another superstition which was given much for that credence— and is still matter— is that one should wear something Easter Sunday and new upon thus insure good lucSk in heart affairs Thus did the institution of the new it a fl connected a ' World’sfasterpieces — WHEN r4 was bornSn a comfortable rench the Rue Quai by on amount du Bae there was the usual of certainly would have joy but there been more joy it his parents could have future and looked forward into the great seen that same little lad as the make artist whose magic brush could winter saving live all through the dreary Ills months on his canvases honnTMilM father oiled the child looked Baptiste Camille and Jean to the time when he would be a man little Jean The was not like other children at school and although he was he would not not stupid in the least Perhaps this was apply himaelf h he was drew verv well when so found it ever tiny and more to make pictures on his paper figure on All during than- write or the years when he was being educated cherished a big at Rouen the little Jean Hfj home fr v long-deferred artist time the style of art in Men had rance had been Classic painted certain subjects and abode Baptiste by strict rules but now Jean along with entirely came new ideas and became the greatest name of this time which marked the of the school of painting Romantic known as Corot strove to Jean express the things on his canvas his spirit of were suppressed and even hazy impression and he put down the he from viewing a himself received landscape His success in doing this critic has said “his was as one excellence" strongest The haunting beauty of the of the fleeting beauty the interesting t it 3W-’ II according Paes-over details be-r-aiitn — this beginning - ’’ to Up well-a-Ha r S3 stories Even from Persia comes the tale of There Is a story from that the egg land of two brothers who had a strong influence at the time the world was One of these brothers made an good spirits the egg in which were all full of other made an egg demons These eggs were brokeh together and so good and evil were set loose in the It is in world memory of the brothers created out-of-doors -K-r Legend eggs is who lady of She the egg dashed another upon his story of a day this heart with German presented great that a iron insulted she tit of ground in when it broke open disclosinga rage golden yolk Inside the yolk was crown of rubies and inside this It is engagement ring pity that we do not know more concerning the fiery lady and the generous prince because the egg nia" be to this seen very day at a museum in Berlin In Swabia the children not are to make a picture of the hare is a sin against the moon And in of the soubh our own land the rich in imagination will swear to the power to avert evil held by the left hind foot of a graveyard ralifeit killed in the dark of the moon is considered In many lands Easter holiday week and at this time it to used to be quite common cease of all labor suspend trade and sorts close the law courts Also liberal alms were given to the poor Upon Thursday of Ehster week used to be the custom for the English king and queen to wash the feet of as many in poor subjects as they were years old memory of the act of Christ in washing the feet of his apostles When Queen Elizabeth was 39 years old she this ceremony for the last time and James II was the last monarch to observe this custom beautiful Of course old and customs of are passing with the growth this practical but hidden in the remoter age places in the villages and hamlets is where the rush of commerce not so felt keenly we may run across the customs which the imagination of generations of people have built up about the Eastertide and it is quite lingers about the season true that there something of the old eharm which it held for the first peoples— for the and for the and for the ewe it was upon so the a a a wonderful a allowed because it negroes -week a it performed old-time Persians J well as Romans for as those long-dead forefathers of who greeted ours other Easter mornings on sunny lips the glad risen!" tidings their on the of each with Christ is Lily OLDER legends a ' S 1t --- A ' if — V y 4 ihiihii II "SPRING”— ambition7 ' By Jean iii ' schoolf'he hi-?-dismay ’ - I -1 r - ii II CamiHe ptiste -Ba close to his heart' It to become an artist and deplct-for was beautiful things In others"gave-hlm the nature which so Iriuch Joy graduated from he was confided this 'ambition to his father he found that ai)dsmuch to ? 4t was'fu not' approved'16 ‘Vntl 1HAVL 11 jevtfl TTI ’man with- more than cessful business w lcf lie t nOUsn JIK’Jlvy inv nuprn 7 would' accumulate that his son likewise add thus establisha family for-'' of ‘tune consequence' Now Jean Baptiste' must have loved very When ' - ' Corot ‘dawn caugnt and of the misty twilight he and transferred to canvas for all the world to love He saw Hght In everything and the colors he used and silvery pale were cool greens and browns he liked best Other 'soon fascinated men were with his worlf' and imitated him so that' ontalnebleau-Barbizon after a while there was a school devoted to at the study- of light and shade And fairyforests of rance here front the the' meadowlands and fromthe new-type of artists the drew tbeir inspiration'-So you may aee -7- and-grays i -f jjor ‘3 (ivsiiQ jv i rifj i ivf put : 14 i A A ST Vt-n I l Vvi i --- - --J 1- he-LtUe-Jan-ltad-KrowH— u-nto -4 n v - 4441 v j - V agj iBp- wHiwIf Im! iVfTT f I IV quivering — hnwCX tb o-uite— -sure— - r- colors the it of the 'self-love ” consoled !n looking upon —her than with' the lowly Worship of the other powers — presently the mooq which had been cloud shone benlndawlspof down and turned the olive to trees silver and showed the oriental flowers but most shone upon the grave sweet Christ or a moment only the lily bore that look then contrasting her pride and vyith the humility of the nfhAr hiiYnniiv were ana th uie lunmay or head In shame aiid sorrow ner gown and a faint red swept over her flush ivorv DfttAl— the same that tinges them still L And Rlnea tha “drooped its head and has never once ip pride above of holding-lt the heads of her sister fiowera of of all face -flush - - - - -But 4 "--thought ' ’ ' “ - ’"s3v 1 11 Mil I 1 M nnt ImnArtant nafiiftn’iro must Beautiful examples of Corot’s neauiuui eAamuius ui coiDLS work worK may be seen in the Louvre the Luxcmoourg ana ouier crencn gaueries in as well as tne most important nm-ars miicpnnia ann raiiAriA uwn jana Iia m“ nis ui ins Kcrei Hiiwiiiun uul minci ana agreed to bepome apprenticed to a' iie uraper oiq nouiuig oy nanes ana to ne sirove very: nart to succeed in np in (tjninirniai wiiriaminourn nn AA ’ r ” I hill-sldes at -th XWiW-AV- ' - -’'money V-j than written history are which cluster about the Easter liy The most beautiful hge7fd-of therltlyfollows' It solemn night was on that still and before the Passion when Christ walked in alone Gethsemane Nature alone sympathizing was lie with him in his looker agony up and the stars cast down their softest light The leaves of the olive trees whispered together and the little breezes wandered down from the hills and swept hts hot brow In the garden beautiful flowers and were many although they could not speak they tnetr sympatny understood by maae sending out faint perfumes upon the air At last the Christ raised his sorrowful face he pacing as was along the path and cast a glance into the shadow At first it seemed that every flower bent before him lovingly and reverently but his eyes as grew accustomed to the gloom he spied a single white splash of and there a regal lily ’stood with head upraised or the lily had reasoned thus In the pride of her own of beautv: "I flowers It is am the queen fitting that these my humbler brethren should bend and bow to show their but sorrow am so splendid and beautiful that the very sight- of me must have a ofpower to console will be a white shining- in vase the darkness that the Christ may find pleasure in contemplating my exquisite grace" of gentle eyes the Christ The rested long unon tho lllv And stand rfraiehterrtfl ' -mkuL hX BB the forward H m At last his father must have realized that Jean Baptiste only was wasting his time in the business world and when the young man was 26 years old he gained permission to begin his career as an little lad a certain colored There prince “ - “ T |