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HER EAS' By EARLE HO Q ? Copyright, 1913, by American Press i 1A LOVELY one, 1 But I?I do For how can eyes > With such a fa '-i ,f >jt . .* ? " faster Egg Rolling . ii* t '< > I ^ " / ^UST about the prettiest annual j 4 function in Washington is the Easter Monday egg rolling on J the White House lawn. This event levels all social classes, bringing the sous and daughters of foreign diplomats to an even footing with the children of humble artisans. * : For on Easter Monday, bright and early, thousands of little boys and girls will gather in the big back yard of the White House and will enjoy the right that is theirs on that day to roll theireggs down the slopes of the lawn. It is the time honored custom to throw wide the mansion's gates to all the 1 children of the city for this splendid event. The Marine or some other big band is requisitioned to furnish music for the little ones. ? For two or three weeks ahead of time Washington's youngest generation carries on big preparations for the egg J rolling. The boys gather their eggs : with an expert discrimination in favor j of those with hard shells. They deI FER HAT, 'OKER. EATON. Issoclftticrri. ^ >?%%?%mMf?WH??HH%%H%WW 9 they call your hat, j: not know, | ? 4<? WM M <1 ivasic tunc un tnatf ? ice below? j at the White House fermine the strength of the shell by tapping the eg? against their teeth, the 1 compact by sound and "feel" fixing the character of the shell. The chosen ! eggs are then boiled hard, and the own. er is ready for the liual "picking" process. On meeting another lad he says. I "Say. will yon pick?" Of coarse if the s? >rul youngster is properly armed lie i 1 acquiesce. Kneh then grasps an egg in one hand, with his fingers covering its surface so that only the tip is presented to the opponent. They tap the exposed tips against each other until one is broken. Then the other end is brought into play. When an egg suffers fracture at both ends it is forfeited. The eggs thus cracked are still available for egg rolling and are therefore dyed in brilliant hues with the hard shelled survivors of many frays. The pictures show several groups of little ones on the White House lawn and a scene of children in the act of rolling their eggs. EASTER ERGS ORIGINATED j IN A QUEEN'S COURTSHIP j j __ __ | By MINERVA SPENCER HANDY. J i I LIEN Marguerite ?i Austna j I M n was in her youth and beau^ to the south of France to visit the shrine of her favorite saint. Some say it was to pray for a young | and handsome husband. If so. her patron saint kindly granted the prayer in advance of the petition. On her way she stopped to rest for a few days at r.ourg. a village on the edge of a deep i forest and at the loot of the majestic j Alps. On Easter Monday the people for ] 1 -1 +--rv Aiwvnn>i\ T ? > tllli OlK- I mnes nrouuu uit-i iu rugu,,!; jw n.v, tomary Easter frames. The young regent of the Netherlands from her place j beside the chatelaine of the castle enjoyed the scene hugely. It was very 1 interesting to watch the older men shooting at targets and casks of wine, the winner being allowed to put iiis lips to the cask and drink his til!. Eat when the young couples began to gather for the most exciting event of the day then the princess grew enthusiastic, for. you remember, she was young and fair, and even queens dream dreams of handsome, loving partners. The moment arrived for the contest. One hundred eggs were scattered over f the ground. A young man and a maid!en began the figure. While the onlookers laughed it was a serious affair j for the dancers. The couple that could skip over the eggs, giide between them, twirl about them in all the varied gyrations of the dance, without breaking or cracking an egg might marry each other in spite of the opposition of their parents".' Each couple was allowed three trials, and. the dance being successfully concluded, none dared oppose the union. ^ a ^ - 'iv... While the merrymaking was hi its i IJClglil Xilt* JSUlUMi ul ;i liuinui ^ iivin ran? through the forest. Soon appeared a company of horsemen in such brilliant uniforms that the simple peasants stopped in their dance to graze and wonder whom they might be. At their head rode a beautiful youth, dressed as only the nobles of the time dared dress. He sprang from his horse, bent a graceful knee _to the chatelaine *of the castle and requested ?er hospitality. Of course the hostess granted it at once, for this was Philibert, the handsome Duke of Savoy. The dance, which the coming of the duke had interrupted,- was now resumed with greater merriment than ever. After watching dancers Marguerite in jest said, fT would that I were one of those simpfe peasants and might try the dafrice." Philibert bowed low before the fair fegent and said, "Madame, will you permit me to be your partner in the daYrce that is gofng on before us?" This was equivalent to an offer of marriage, and, hearing it. the crowd became wild with enthusiasm. Cries of "Austria!" and "Savoy!" rang through the air. and cheer followed AU/sam Vf o woniAtiifn #rf?0^lA1Xal V Q/\. V.UCT1 iUai^UClllU ^AOViVUOiJ quiesced, and the handsome pair took their place in the dance. A serious task was before them. They must dance around and around' eggs, between eggs, without breaking any. But members of the royal families' were accustomed to the dance. The feet' of the royal lady were as light as thistledown. while those of the handsome knight were graceful in the extreme. When the dance ended not a single egg had been touched. Love in those days was not long in kindling. When the duke gazed intc the sparkling eyes and upon the glowing cheek of his partner in the egg dance he knew that the custom of the country wasn't going to be broken. And so it proved. One year from the day the two were j married. Their guests were given souvenirs of gold and silver eggs filled with spices which they called Easter eggs. iuis tusiuiu wars rumiuuwi uu each anniversary in memory of that happy day in the forest when with beating hearts they together tripped the measures of the egg dance. **************** ^ J EASTER, DAY OF UNIVER- ? * SAL JOY. * * * * * * This is the dav. mv brethren, * jL. * J. of universal joy throughout the ? * Christian world. We no longer * J behold our altars covered with % * xidges ol" mourning to comment- * -X * orate the passion, crucifixion and * * death of our Saviour. They are * * decked in gleaming white to eel- * * ebrate his glorious resurrection. * * No longer does the "Stabat Ma- * * ter" or the "Miserere'' or the * | * "Lamentations." those plaintive * i * notes of the church, resound in ^ J * our temples. The "Gloria In Ex- -K ; J celsis." with frequent alleluias. * I greets our ears once more. No * ! J -V 1 ? more do penitent multitudes ? i *- strike tnoir nreasts m antnnsn ol -* :l 'X J heart and follow their suffering ^ * Kedeemcr as he bears his cross -* >. * to Caivary. but in spirit we see * * Marv Majrdalene and the other "* *- * * Marys, with the apostles, hasten- .* * in?,' with joyful and eajrer steps * *- to the tomb from which their * * Lord had risen.?Cardinal Gib- ? * bons. * * * * Ribbon Flowers For Easter. The Easter ?irl will wear a tiny bunch of posies very much on the order of a man's boutonniere pinned on the lapel of her coat. These flowers will be made of ribbon. fisl" h S'?J m ! k-'i&iUw* i Child's Frock. This dainty little t'rork will make up effectively in dark l>!ue linen. The waist is in kimono style and die skirt circular. the front panel extend<M-ik ^?kVs\ rjn I i fri --" -- <DJA'E LINES' LItESS. -^r^r *' ^ ^ l in? the full loiisrth of the dress. Cuffs In nd coIln r are of ]?:iIo blue pique, and a .smart finishing touch will be added | if the buttonholes are worked i:i a ! similar shade of blue. -"S r 7 v *-' ?r? The Use 6f Light Tones. Every woman kndws that white is "trying"?that is, its lightness of tone throws the darker tones of flesh into strong relief, a contrast not always supportable. The eye, however, accepts white much more comfortably than a pale color unrelieved or wrongly judged. A whole figure of one pale tone tliay look cool and bright and will certainly l>e conspicuously visible and generally decorative Jn a crowd, but considered as a single figure the eye will ^eek for relief in a variety of tone and just as the dark touches of eye, nostril and lip take the eye in a face the points of contrast will arrest the eye In the figure. A very famous French d^smakef, TTOW dead, derived nts creations from birds, and the perfect taste of nature always dares the redeeming contrast. Witness, for example, the ermine's tail. pii ar ii a in aiaui FALSE HAM NUVV IS UNFASHIONABLE Tbd Coiffuro Brings the Locks Low on the Forthoad. Sever tvere coiffure effects so flat and less false hair used. The smaller the head the better. The only false hair used now by fashionable women is a roll to pose at the back of the head, on which to place their hair. The ends of the hair are tucked- in under this, and a barrette is fastened' to cover the spot where stray hairs almost always show. The mass of hair is marcelled once a fortnight or so. and if there are not too many short hairs the effect will be neat. The Psyche knot is returning to fashion. and the helmet form, which is so becoming. is still worn. In this the back hair forms the modern French twist, and the hair is drawn over the knot and in a way effaces it. Good effects for the low coiffure are those of a simple braided strand of hair or a knot formed in a flat figure 8. A tendency toward a slight flulfiness' now marks dressing of the front hair, and for evening wear its becomingness is undeniable. The present styles are well adapted to the smoothly parted hair worn by so many women, by which method the eyebrows are visible, the ears are almost covered and the hair is massed on the nape of the neck. Everything seems to incline to the low forehead, and for a woman who has not such this is easily secured by bringing the hair over the forehead and fastening it there with an invisible pin. When the hair is caught back in the chignon the front looks unite natural. Everything is possible in fashions of hainlressing. and perhaps in a few years the liijrli forehead beauty may arrive. Turned Down Collars. The narrow turned down white foliar holds its own. for no style of neckwear was ever more becoming to woman. These collars are made now of very sheer, open patterned machine embroidery in lacy effects, and usually the collar opens at either side of a narrow vest of tucked net or some similar material. These little collars are often noted on afternoon tea frocks of smoky gray or taupe colored lansdowne) whose supple silk and wool texture is at its best in the draped effects of the moment. j OO'CfT p[|! | {UpQ j ^ Ik an ao '%&) Si '*?> viasLati^ 13 ^3 j I ! A Rival to the Pan?.! 11 a Canai. 1 Coinnaratively lew i tT. ons have yivc.i s-Ti.-us ::Lteiilioi* to '1)0 l:i<t ih.:i a hai'a'e ;:ii estimato-l lot..! ?osi <;i S i< ll.t I > i - ? 11 ii' <'< !;St iV'.'-lod a-'ToSS eeliTm! : . I W!*s?;>;nt j Now York st:iIe. This wat wailed r,|i waterway, wkii lis looks. water I n.iies. spillways and kiyhway iTidues. winds aiM'oss the state from Tin* 11?!< I son f.? Tonawandn. Ljivina: across to The old Erie canal. Oswoyo canal. Lake (/hamrlain. St. Lawrence and the urea t lakes, openinir a errand hijrhway from the seaboard and the first city of the Union. "When one considers that the canal extends as the crow tiles miles across the state and with the Iii'Mivtuw tn T -i !.-<> f'l iru m i|;i in ! nd T.:do? Ontario Ii.ms a total lon.irtIi of miles it will bo recognized as one of the largest engineering fonts in canal construction, ranking second only to the Panama canal. There lias been no end of difficulties met with, such as quicksands and lio-us. and frequently bridges had to bo built, to make the work possible.?Amanda Smith (fray in Leslie's. Bullets With VV'innc. Tests have been made in Germany with a special projectile which is intended to repel dirigibles and which is designed not only to pierce a gas eui volope. but also to set tire to the teas. This projectile, tired from a rille. is provided with little wine's that open I in {light tinder th.e intiueiu e of a sprint:, i * * ' j compressed while th.e projectile is still in the ritle barrel, but expanded as soon j as the muzzle Is passed An ordinary J buiiet ieaves SiiclT a sinail hole in an { envelope t]?ot the pis escapes through j it but slowly. The wings on the iniI proved bullet tear a hole of appreciable size in the fabric. What is more, they retard the bullet sufficiently to cause a friction device to ignite fulminate contained in tlie bullet. The experiments gave encouraging results.?Chicago News. ..? - ?- Turning In Vain. The Turning Worms is an unorganized group of Now York meu who refuse to endure the petty grafting that the city is full of. They never tip a hat cheek boy; they will not pay 2 cents for a one-cent newspaper, and they will not pay 10 cents for a telephone call that costs the hotel 3 cents. And before long they are going to appeal to the public service commission. We forecast that the situation will be unrelieved. The hotel keepers say that they have a perfect right, if they like, to charge $1 for a twenty-five cent telegram or $4 for a dollar and a half novel. And we suppose they have. Also a study of the way visitors to New York spend money in the hotels leads us to wonder why they don't.? Franklin P. Adams in Metropolitan. " ? ?~~~ m ? ^ * A * Di*. George Turner, recently knighted in England partly because of his devotion to the lepers at the asylum at Pretoria during his long career in South Africa, is himself a victim of the dread disease, contracted through his work among the afflicted. For several years he has been living in seclusion in England. During his residence in the Cape Colony he produced a curative and preventive serum which stamped out the rinderpest in that section, saving the country millions of pounds. Then for years he worked among the lepers without pay, endeavoring to find a cure for the disease. On reaching the age limit he retired to England to pursue bis studies into the bacteriological side of leprosy. Man With Half a Brain. During the Swedish maneuvers a soldier named Blomquist received a bullet in the head as the result of the awkwardness of a comrade. Trepanning was resorted to and half of the brain removed. The man was discharged cured and took his place in the ranks again, but some of his faculties were found to be deficient, and in particular he had forgotten how to read and write. He was discharged from the army and was made the object of study by some doctors, who? to coin a word?re-educated him. In addition to his pension Blomquist receives ail allowance of ?50 a year from a learned society, the members of which wish to keep him under observation. Dundee Advertiser. Over a Ton of Cake. A confectioner in Peckhaw Rye. England, made a monster cake recently which, when completed with almond paste and sugar icing, weighed 2.SOO pounds. This vast cake was not baked in one piece. It was built up of large wedges of cake, each baked separately. and they were built up in eleven tiers on the plan of a bride rake. It i occupied six men for a whole baker's i day to build the cake and put the sug| ar icing around it. To make it and j bake it five men wore busily employed ! for four days. The almond iraste round the cake weighed 800 pounds, and the sugar coating or icing weighed 200 pounds. Broadening the School. "The school authorities will lose a splendid opportunity if they continue to confine themselves to a bookish program and fail to take a position of leadership in the great social movement now going on throughout the country." declares J. D. Eggleston, chief rural school specialist of the United States bureau of education. HIM Or THE O^T The Ohs'jfveurs Story, "I >111:-id' r the driver said, !; or i I' ll the I'll ti: iili of i; li'l I .i:i; ?11'fii^h liov/i. r < . > . I And I was an.! e -t our:--1 : '! the thrills thuro . i "I'f'tn tli.- day thai t!?::- ourred j'.l hfty miles to no lire and, you can lake my word. I wasn't driving slow. The road was < 001!. !.t;t narrow, a ru:l l'-n.-e .in either v':--. And th car sped like an arrow in a swift and easy lido. "I took the curve at forty miles, then at our highest six-ed I shot alont? those forest aisles with just the i-o.'iil to he d. When suddenly there stepped into our track a iitlic child With sold en hair and eyes of blue?just looked at us and smiled! "Not fifty feet ahead was she, and I too scared to touch Or think of the emergency or o'en throw out the clutch. And even then it teas too late?no time to * turn osideNo space, r..? field, r.o open prate?the road was ten feet wid- ! "All these I saw as in a dream?the lassie's happy face? One of those moments that wili teem to hold a lifetime's space? 'Twas just 1 me smile of innocence?ah, would it bo her last?? And. then she climbed upon the fence and watched me thun ler past!" - Cleveland i'laiu Dealer. t ? ** ?-*r. ' .. < .. Economy. ' An artist who pa>sed a jrrc-nt part, of his life in the Latin <iuarter tells of the frugality of a Frenchman who lived on a pension of francs a week, involving a cm ions system, which the f I-'reiumiian thus explained: ? . "Ket eos simple, vaire simple! Sunday I tro to ze house of a trood friend, and zaire I dine s<^ extraordinaire and eat so much I need no more till Vednosday. On ^at day I have at my res liiuruiii uj;u iar^r. vuut: mou "j. -~ tripe and some onion. I abhor ze tripe, yes. and ze onion also, and togezzer zey make "me so ill as I have no more any appetite till Sunday. Pet ees vaire simple!"?Tit-Bits. w ^^kar~- y ">T Charlie's Turn to Ring NowT^-J "-?y' fie was not a very rapid wooer, and she was getting a bit anxious. A persistent ring came at the front K t door!"" - vj "Oh, bother!" she said. "Who caa I ' * be calling?" % "Say you're out." he suggested. (.?>? "Oh, no, that would be untrue," sli? jjj protested. * "Then say you're engaged," he urged. "Oh, may I, Charlie?" she cried, a? i cVia"fa1 1 Infa VOo ormo ouc iuiu uio aiujo* And the man kept on ringingthe front _ _ door bell.?Fun. ^ ^ A Chicago politician imported his cousin from the old country and had him appointed a smoke inspector. This ?; was in the old days. He was turned ^ i loose to inspect without any instroe- F tloos whatever, and this is the report he rendered at "the end of the first J month: , "I certify that I have inspected the ; . smoke of this city for the thirty day* J ' past. I find plenty of smoke and ap- * * parently of good quality. Respectful- . e l 1 y submitted."?Kansas City Journal. Hardly Presentable. ^ A greatly disheveled bargain hunter approached a small cigar stand which she mistook for a street railway station ami inquired of a clerk: "Can I go to Niles this way?" "Well, you can all right" replied the , clerk, "but if I were in your place I'd fix: up a bit."?Youngstown Telegram. Easy and Comfortable. "Don't you over find it hard to be a freak?" asked the stoutish, tightly : laced woman who had stopped to converse with the fat lady. j "Xo. not a bit" was the reply. "I ; often feel sorry for some of you people who seem to find it so hard not to be freaks."?Chicago Itecord-Herald. f ? I Vod-e-ville. He?Say. sweetheart, that footpad that robbed the two classy co-eds the j other night must have been a poker player. * She?A poker player?why? He?Because he held up two queens. ?Sun Dial. Awful. < Kitty?Why are you so glum, dear? f Marie?Jack made an awful threat last night when I rejected him. Kitty?Whai ?to shoot himself? Marie?Oh. worse than that. He said he'd never propose to me again.?New York Sun. In the Future. "Oh. ma." exclaimed the (laughterof the candidate. "I just saw papa kissing the 'cook lady!' " "That's all right. dear. Ho is acting as my manager, and I want her vote for toil ay's election."? Judge. >. First Step. "Mr. Pater, I love your daughter. Do you object to my paying her attention?" "No. hut I warn you you'll find it a lot easier than paying her hills."?Boston Transcript. Lack of Time. Ber.ton?Have you tried nil the remedies that your friends have recommended for your rheumatism? Tnlser?Great Scott, no! I haven't had the pesky disease more than three years.?Life.