Show LEGENDS OF THE LILIES The rhe he lily Is regarded as os a saint a nt among flowers and the reason lilies les are aro so largely used In tho time decoration of or churches Is not only because tho they are are the most perfect of typos but be because because because be- be cause of their symbolic meaning 1 One Ono beautiful old belief bellof about the lily relates that tho time candidates for the tho Virgin Marys Mary's hand after having ng sought tho time Lords Lord's I blessing each left loft his own staff In the temple In tho the evon- evon ing The Tho next morning time the dry rod of oC Joseph wits vuis found green reen and blossomed blossomed blossomed blos blos- with lily Illy flowers Howers Another nother pretty legend is that Mary Maryon on her wa way to the tho temple templo plucked n. n lily Illy and u upon on pressing It to her breast it became white white Lily of the tho Virgin Madonna Flower and several other mystical names wore given to the Ill III Illy and have reference to this legend A Gorman German belief points to the Hartz mountains as the tho birthplace of oC the white lily Illy A beautiful girl Irl named Alice Allee was carried off by hy a n wicked lord Justas Just Justas as he reached his castle the Ume guardian JUl spirit of the place wrested the girl from corn his arms On the time place touched b by the feet reet or of orthis this Inn innocent cent maid sprang the tho white lily Illy This stor story is la believed IJ by the thc J 1 peasants of the time Hartz mountains and every year car hundreds of them mako make a pilgrimage linage to the castle to behold the dazzling daz beauty of or the flower that nourishes there A He Legend Another GerSman legend leg runs this WilY way and relates to tho the red lH lily Illy Once I tho the garden of ot Gethsemane was walt full tull of ot flowers lowers of all kinds and find J them none nono so lovely ely as tho the splendid ld Illy I with her hor clustering bolls proudly up up- right It 11 was evening and tho the Lord came camo to walk in his garden Jarden As S he ho passed along each cach flower bowed before him but when ho canto came to tho time lily Illy her liar haughty haught head remained erect defiant In her conscious beauty Tho The Lord paused and looked at her hor for tor a tL second secondi She Sho braved the tho mild eye oye of reproof then slowly bent her head while blushes swept over avel her Still the I Lords Lord's gaze rested on her hor lower sank her head deeper burned her crimson then tear after tear welled up in her lily cups cupa At this the Lord passed on When Wen morning en canto camo mo all tho the flowers lifted their reads reads nil all but the tho lily that once v was as white among them thom Her head remained bowed in shame To this day 1111 she sho blushes over her sin ain of vanity and tho clear cr crystal stal tears of ot repentance still sway away In iii tho cups curra of ot the tho slower Hotter that refused to bond before tho the Lord Another legend connected with the tho I lily Illy Is supposed to be bo a thousand years ears old and Is as ns follows follows- Once there lived JIved In China Chinn two brothers The elder In Inherited inherited In- In tho the larger shuro share of or tho the family i wealth but seized od the time be best t part also of ofIlia I his Ilia brothers brother's leaving him only u row few acres of rou rough h. h pebbly pebbly soil soli a upon n noa which nothing would grow s except at ono end where a marsh bore rank bushes Chinese f Poverty and hunger drove the younger young young- or er brother to despair and he lie threw throw himself eH on oil his iila rough roue-h soil and bemoaned his fate rate Suddenly he ho heard his name called and upon looking around saw sate sawa I Ia a beautiful fairy who wino bade bado him arise and mind suits said Thy rimy patience has hns been beon seen b by the tho gods and a reward Is In iii store storo I Ib for or then thee Lo 10 where th thy the head rested thou hou shall find It beneath the time soil soll To reach it I Is no easy task but rest not thou until that has hns been found which will bring theo then fame and make theo thee honored for tor a a. thousand generations Tho faIr fairy vanished thin the rocky ground and marsh was still sun there thero but hop hope lived In the young mans man's heart for forlong forlong long IonS days ho du dug and at last found tho the promised treasure a a Illy lily bulb V With th faith In the fairy's promise h he took It up planted It and nourished it till there thero grew rew from rom it a flower fairer and sweeter than thun any he had ever eyer seen t Men came camo to buy the flower and ami riches poured in upon him Other Othor bulbs bulba sprang from Its Ib root Ills name and his flower became fam fam- ous Thousands came to see him hint to buy this flower which has Lae over since born horn tho the name namo of or Seen Fah tint thin flower Hower of ot tho the water fairy and which H Is Isnow now after atter a thousand years considered consider consider- od ed by all Chinese th the tho emblem of ot a n happy happy hap hap- py JY new year ear |