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Preparing the Eggs for Easter * OMK-MADB Easter eggts fre ?jiwutly fall In effect be cause they are not properly prepared. I/x* over each egg care fully to see that It is not cracked or all work Is wasted, then wash off with warm water to remove uojj. Put aside such eggs as are to be boiled bard and colored and In a separate mound put those wltb most perfect surface for painting or other decorations. Make very sure there It 00 mixing, as a broken raw egg Is not pleasing. Colored eggs can be made any tint wltb special dyes, or It these are un obtainable cheap ribbon can be boiled in a lit**6 water and the boiled egg submerged in It until the right tone Is acquired. The old fashioned calico egg will be pleasing to this generation of young sters. Tie eaoh egg In a piece of cheap figured chintz of high color and It will leave its design on the egg when put in boiling water. If you have nothing else for color ing boll the egg after tying up in the red skins of onions. Quaint designs can be boiled into the egg by tracing figures on. the shell of the raw egg with a hard tallow can. dlo to make a white surface, then col or the rest of the egg In dyed water. When eggs are to be painted for place cards or caricatures* they need more careful treatment. Wipe the washed egg in powdered pumice to re move gloss of -shell and make painting take better, The blowing must be carefully done or the shell will crack. Prick both ends with a coarse needle. The hole should be Just large enough to per mit the contents being expelled. Too large an opening Is disfiguring, besides making a crack more* probable. Put the egg to the mouth and blow gently at first, then hard and steadily until nothing more comes. Rinse with warm water and blow out several ;imes again. Dry carefully so all wa ter will run out. To paint the egg trace the outlines with a hard pencil, then color with good water colors, as they dry most quickly. If the egg is to be filled with candy one hole may be made big enough to hold tiny candied drops. When the shell is filled paste the'bole with thin paper. Any one can palht some sort of facp on an egg shell, and if further derations in the way of hat, hair, or stock aro added great delight will be givenr A girl with artistic ability can make fascinating place cards from egg shells k in the forms of rabbits, owls, pigs, cupid heads, old ladies, or gay belles. These aro pasted to flat cards on which name or Easter greeting is written In gilt letters. When the egg represents an entire figure the feet are painted on the card; when only the head, it can be set on a short tube tP represent a neck, and this can be draped with stock or collar. Use a good glue in pasting the eggs to the card, as paste or mucilage will not hold well. Great fun for an Easter party is to supply the blank cards, blown egg shells, scissors, paints, and colored pa pers and set the guests to evolving their own egg ornaments. Prizes can be offered for the most successful.' Glorious Easter Atmosphere. Eternal life no longer signifies a nere continuance of being, but a noble expansion of human nature to fit conditions which surround and sur pass the boundaries of our little earth ly life. The Easter atmosphere is one of faith, hope and charity, with sug gestions of a spring such as never yet bloomed upon earthly soil. ? The Christian Register. Easter. Out of the dusk a shadow. Then a spark, Out of cloud a silence, Then a lark, Out of tho heart a rapture, , Then a pain, Out of tho dead, cold ashes I.ifo again. MOTH ER'8 EA8TER HAT. WHEN THEY HARVEST COFFEE ... . . ^ ? __ * Guatemalan Picker* Are Paid Little, but Make Attractive Scene on 1 the Plantation. The harvest season on a largo cof* fee flnca In Guatemala is the busiest time of the year. At the first hint of dawn a great bell calls the Indians to { work, and men, women and children, laden with wide, flat baskets, start for the fields, where all day long they pick the bright red berries. The re sult of a good day's work for each picker Is about three bushels of ber ries. At sunset the great baskets, piled high with the crimsou fruit, are brought to the weighing house, where the contents are weighed, each picker receiving a check for the amount due him. The Southern Workman says the wages are 7 or 8 cents a day, paid In full every Saturday night. Thero Is no more beautiful or attractive scene in the world than a vast coffee field In this country when the harvest ing Is In full swing, for the costume of the Guatemala Indian Is the most I effective and picturesque in all Cen tral America. The woman's dress > usually consists of three pieces; a long cloth (generally of many hues, red and yellow predominating) wound several times around the lower limbs; the Juipll, or shirt, richly embroidered with curious designs ? birds, animals, arrow patterns or geometrical figures in many colors; and a gaudy. belt or sash holding the two garments to gether. The hair Is worn In two heavy braids, often intertwined with gay ribbons. In the north the women wear curiously woven bead bands sev eral yards in length, wound around and around the head and tied in a double knot over the forehead. They are made of silk, richly colored, ending In .heavy tassels of silver, and are very effective. HORSE TAILS ARE IMPORTED They Come From Many Lands and Are Used In Making Brushes and Cloth. An Hem that seemed odd In the manifest of a steamer lately arrived from Japanese and Chinese ports was this In the list of her cargo from Tientsin: Plfty-flve cases of horso tails. As a matter of fact horse tails, or the hair thereof, are a common ar ticle Importation Into this country from China and from pretty much every other country on earth. The American market gets largo quantities of them from China, but more from Russia; and horse tails are Imported here * from every * other European country and from South America, from Australia, from all round the world. On the other hand there are more or less Amerioan horse tails exported. From various causes the supply of horse tails, like that of anything else, may in ono country and another vary from year to year, and there may bo years when the world's supply Is short and years when it is plentiful, with corresponding changes In the range of prices. Horse tails have sold as low as 20 cents a pound and they have sold for as much as |2. If stocks are scarce and high in London, and ample at lower prices heTe, New York 1m- < porters ship horse tails to London; in the contrary circumstances London importers might ship horse tails* here. Horsetail hairs are sorted for length and colors and they are used either alone or mixed with other fibers in the manufacture of various -sorts of brushes and mixed with other ma terials in the manufacture of hair cloth. . , Tuning Bells. When bells In a chime produce dls cord they can be tuned. The tone of a bell may be raised or lowered by cuttiryg off a little metal in the proper places. To lower the tone the bell tuner puts the bell in his lathe and reams it out from the point where the swell begins, nearly down to the rim. As the work proceeds he frequently tests the note with a tuning fork, and the moment the right tone is reached ho stops reaming. To raise the tone, on the contrary, he shaves off the lower edge of the bell, gradually less ening or flattening the bevel, in order to shorten the bell, for of two bells of equal diameter and thickness the shorter will give the higher note. A noteworthy instance of bell-tuning was at Lausanne, where twelve bells, in three neighboring steeples, pro duced only seven distinct notes, and gave out a most curious discord. Wear of Traffic on Roads. A machine that measures the wear caused by traffic upon public high ways Is among the scientific instru ments on show at tho exhibition of the Physical Society of London at the Imperial College of Science, South Kensington. "In speaking about this machine an official of tho road board referred to the wear on the various main roads of London. "Wood pavement," he said, "wears down cine inch In about six years, except In places where the traf fic Is particularly Intense. The as phalt paveirient In the city wears down about half an inch in t?p years. The ordinary country hlghwfr wears dolwn two inches in from thrfe to ten years, according to the amount of ?raffle." How Me Knew. "How do you know that man to a parlor fisherman f" "No man could And tine to do any real ttehln* and at the same time learn ? the names of se large ft collec tion of tronfc fllsa." EASTER. "MOElfafo-. World-Wide : Observance of Easter By HELEN BRUCE WALLACE HIS day of Christian Joy is world-wide in its ob servance. Prom sea to sea, from the frozori North to the equally frozen South, "The World itself keeps Easter Day, And Easter larks are singing, And Easter flower* are blooming gay. And Easter buds are springing. Alleluia, Alleluia." , Sometimes that observance falls short in the true meaning of the sea son that symbolizes to the Christian a risen Lord, and hope of Immortality. "Like our Chrtstma: celebrations, the religious side of Eastertide is o'er shadowed by the social. The change from the solemn peni tential week just paBt to the Joyous ness and light and color of Easter morn has for most of us too little of religious element* Even though ws Join tho throngs surging tho churches and revel in the Easter flowers that bank tho altars, and join in the Easter carols of praise, we fall far short of realizing what a lack of Easter would have meant to civilization. ?> The world Is a better place to live In because of Eastertide. Though the spiritual side of us be but poorly devel oped the material should rejoice iji the blessings and comforts bestowed by the ages-old belief in the risen Lord. What the world would have been without Easter; what women would have been we can but faintly Imagine. Without tho hope that sprang from that open grave fn far-away Judea, life would lack a high, Incentive to purity, truth and love for our neighbor. If this were all; If with the ebbing of life there were no hope of a "be yond;" then would selfishness and pleasure reign supreme, the law of might would prevail, and this world be a worse place than It is for the poor, tho sick, and thq lowly. If we cannot wholly approve of the world's method of observing Easter and the days Immediately preceding it, the fiaster festival with Its curious ob servances have an Interest In that however feebly, they draw universal attention to the day of the risen Lord. Odd points of resemblance may bo seen In many of these observances, and like many of tho great days of tho church, the customs assoolated with It have been drawn from pagan worship. Easter la a time ef Joy and gladness, for it cornea In the spring, when, ac cording to pagan belief, Nature awoke from the winter death sleep and er erything breathed of life *nd hope. Therefore there la a common note of Joy in Easter celebrations, whether it be among the cool-headed Anglo-6ax on, the undemonstrative Scandinavian, or the intense, passionate Latin races. But perhaps nowhere is the spirit of the day more* emphasized than in Russia, where when at the stroke of midnight on Easter Ere, the priest announcea to the kneeling multitude "He Is risen," the congregation bursts into** unanimous response, "He is risen, indeed," and Joy in the bleaaed thought is expressed in warm em braces among friends. During all of Easter Day, tho Rus sian peasants visit among their friends, exchanging tho Joyous greet | ing with each acquaintance, "ChriBt Is j risen," to which the other responds, ! "He Is risen, Indeed!" followed by the | triple klBS on either cheek and fore head. I Yet even hero is tho trace of pagan i Ism in the use of tho Easter egg, which was tho symbol to tho pagan of a new life. On tho round of visits 6ach I Kuest presents a colored o.uk to the hostess, receiving ono in roturn, with refreshments thrown in. | In most Christian countries the joy of Eastertide is shown in music and flowers. Every church makes special preparation for tho great day, but probably nowhere In the world Is such , music heard as in St. Peter's, in Homo, of which Mrs. Humphry Ward hus glv-' en us so improssivo a description in Eleanor. Besides tho flowor-bankod churches the newer custom of marking Easter tide with flowers in tho window of each house Is one of much beauty and symbolism. When in palace and tene ment alike thero is a common bond of commemorative Easter flowers' c to greet the passer-by, tho classes cannot bo so far apart as tho pessimist ?thinks. In Catholic countries the Joy of Eas ter is less impressive than tho solemn observances of Good Friday. Tho churches are thronged with reverent worshipers, the procession commemo rative of tho Crucifixion, the burning of Judas in efilgy, so common a prac tice in Portugal, Greoce, Mexico and South American countries, all bear witness that despite scoffers tho story of The Cross with tho Joyous Resur rection is not deemed a myth. It is said that Portuguese sailors in whatever port they may be on Good Friday at sundown commit Judas to the waves as tho sailors sing the An gelus. And there are thoso who say Christianity is passing. Less religious in its symbolism is the universal Easter-egg, beloved of children. Young America with his Easter bas ket or Easter huht this morning, does not think that the Parsee children have eggs distributed to them at their spring festival; that tho small Hun garians sprinkle their girl friends with rosewater and in return receive gifts of eggs; that French children in coun try districts will today make a round of visits begging for red eggs; while the little Russians will, for every gift of a red egg, set free a caged canary. The Easter bunny Is another cus tom borrowed from Pagan times, as the hare was associated, with tho moon and new life. It may be from the firm belief of ematt Germans that if they are very good tho whlto hare will steal into tho house on Easter Eve and hldo beauti ful colored eggs, that young Americans feel thejr Easter celebration Is incom plete without their bunnies, toy or real, candied or painted. A curious, but less common belief is that the sun danoes with Joy as it rises on the day of Resurrection. Our forefathers utilizing pagan worship of tho sun taught that in it was seen an emblem of the Sun of Righteous ness risen on Eastern morn. There are certain parts of Europe, where to day the people rise early to climb the hill to watch for this phenomenon. However, it may be kept, whether with heartfelt worship or perfunctory following of long custom, this Easter morning finds the world united in cele bration of that great day that brought joy and hope to a small band of men *nd women, weeping for a lost leader whom they called The Christ ? until' their faith was tested by the dire trag edy of tho Cross. The joy of that long gone Easter morn has crown with the ages, until Its radiance Is felt the world over, eren by those who do not call them ?elres believers In the "Risen Lord." at r yr:- T^-.-nr: - ? t- ? ' ? SPRING Millinery Exhibit NINETEEN TWELVE We announce our formal showing of the new Hats tor spring and summer wear. 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