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Show I Easter Sag ? Bf Mary Graham Bonner Ira (. 1924. Western Newspaper Union.) llffTTj yffjil HE churches are filled with fSI2jj flowers. Many people are wearing SisAfc The church bells are ringing, ring-ing, people are hurrying to church in a new, vigorous, glad spirit. The choirs are singing. The congregations congre-gations sing, too. "Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia !" The air still holds some of the winter's win-ter's chill within it, but there is, too, the warmth of spring to be felt. Everyone feels it. Everyone is smiling, smil-ing, happy, gay. They are wishing each other "A Happy Easter." Children have been given gay Easter ggs and they have been given choco- j I " ' I 7 late bunnies with sweet chocolate expressions ex-pressions on their little chocolate faces; even their ears are alert in their chocolate fnshi.m. New clothes are being worn. Or old ones are spruced up. There is new lifr. new courage, new Joyo:isn'-ss in The air. "Alleluia, alli'Iuia, alleluia!" |