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Krf..* V> : ' * - ' * r . > ^ $ 3 Arrangement of Attractive Easter Table 4 - By A dele Mendel nAME HOSPITALITY, who Is ever on the alert for some h h unique manner in wmcn 10 uec- | WlJ orato a table at Eastertide. | will find numerous golden suggestions from which to draw, If she looks to the springtime for inspiration. More and more Eastertime is gradually developing in the joyful recognition of the return of the spring. The singing birds, blossoming (lowers and bright, sunny days are always associated with the thought of Easter. There are many old beliefs connect* ed with Easter, which have been handed down to us. Eggs have always been identified with the Easter celebration, and formerly were exchanged, containing love sentiments much as we exchange valentines today. Another | custom was to bring colored eggs to i the parish priest, who blessed them before they were distributed to the i poor people. Another superstition which proba- 1 bly is responsible for the origin of the ! "Easter hat" is that, to be successful in love affairs, one must wear some new article of clothing on Easter day. The appropriate colors for Easter decorations are pure white, lavender and purple, yellow and white, with accompanying green for floral decorations. 1 illies, both calla and Easter, wisteria, fleur-de lis, violets, or any spring flowers are used effectively. Fluffy little chickens, colored eggs and rabbits figure prominently in East er decorations. The discriminating 1 klN :$'>*' ,*4k->>'%.& VH - * i < $%** "- mm rl # , / mm 3K jiv v > kvl<% * i?r - > % J = M&J ' ' kd? Zak & *'" \ - >X?V7 A " 111? M - .;, ||jgp~ '" JL y ^ hostess who has an eye both to economy and effect can cripinate really artistic decorations at home. A pood idea is to purchase one or two favors and try to copy them. With a little practice you can make many novel decorations which will help make your entertainment a success. "Threefifths of the joy of eating is in the appearance of the dainties of the table." The table illustrated embodies many novel Easter ideas. The table cloth is of crepe paper, designed with rabbits and great splashes of violets, though if ono prefers a white damask cloth may be used. The centerpiece is a great bunch of Easter lilies, with green leaves, in a large bowl, covered with lavender and white crepe paper, which has edges cut to form leaves. At the base is a stunning lavender M aline bow. Four crystal candlesticks, with white crepe paper shades tinted In lavender and ornamented v/ith violets, add to the picturesque effect of the table. Fluffy little chickf ens, which can be purchased for a few cents a dozen, are attached with baby ribbon of lavender to paper carts. These wagons hold small candy eggs. The Ices were sprinkled with crystalizod violets and served in tall glasses, covered In lavender and white rulHed paper and trimmed with long-stemmed violets. The piece cards have little chicks perched on the corner of the card. At each place Is a bouquet of violets, either real or Imitation, for a souvenir. Ins'ond of servlnR Ice cream, an Faster gelatlv* would bo very appro 4 prlate, as it is violet-colored. This 1b made by flavoring gelatine with grape juice/pouring into an egg shell. When the jelly is cold and firm, remove the shells and you will have clear violet eggs. Arrange these around a mold nf Hnvnrlnn nrnnm Yellow and white wero the predominating colors used in another table. The centerpieces were of large wicker basket, covered with nrtiftcial moss and filled with yellow flowers. At each place the place cards were of blown eggs, gildeu, with the name of the guest written in white ink. Tiny nests of yellow spun sugar, containing eggshaped bon-bons. For holding nuts there were little yellow paper baskets, made by covering a small, round box with paper, to which is fastened a handle of wire, wound with paper. At the top, tied on with a gold cord, is a bunch of real or artificial flowers. For this luncheon the chicken salad was served In very small flower pots, with grated yolks nnd whites of eggs sprinkled on top, and a sprig of parsley apparently growing in the center. The sandwiches were cut egg-shaped. The ice crenin was served in a nest of lady fingers. The small cakes were egg-shaped and iced in yellow and white. It is always wise to provide soino entertainment for your guests. When luncheon is over give each guest a string and bid them hunt for the egg at the other end. The strings cross and recross about the furniture, and much merriment results in the hunt. Here and there a nonsense couplet can be tied to the string, to give zest to the search. At the end of each string should be found an Easter souvenir. ' The children to seine extent have appropriated Easter as their day and much pleasure is derived in giving a children's party the week following Easter Sunday. A table which certainly will arouse the enthusiasm ef juvenile guests has a large basket in the center, covered with twigs nnd green. From this rises a white rabbit, holding in his front paws an Easter egg. From the basket an iwouiio, ai tun truu ?&,'.' X^if v i' . - 1 v jt ^-'V,?? 11 '- | ;\f/ '&# ,tf %Mm &k V ' h-* h <\ 4?r*? k % ;- - \\ ffi'f k, >4; ?<* : .-&#s :a?| -yzptx m$: A r #,Vst ?li$ C / ' ..k%2 of each ribbon is a diminutive rabbit, holding the place card. The candle shades ore decorated with designs of rabbits, cut from docorativo paper and appliqued on to the plain shade. For bon-bon boxes have Faster eggs filled with candies, or boxes in the shape of rabbits. Serve the ice cream in nests made of strips of candied orungo peel. For entertainment, after the children have loft the dining room, award a prize to the one who can draw the most perfect rabbit blindfolded. A game which will provoke much merriment is to have candy eggs in various places in the room and announce a prize will be awarded to the one who finds the greatest number. Another npvol idea for a children's ' table is to make a huge egg of crepe J paper on a v.ire foundation, and also three or four ladders of w ire covered with twisted paper. Then set little chickens on the rounds of the ladder, as if they were just emerging from the egg and were coining down in a great hurry. Other chicks could peep out of the egg. The egg could hold Easter favors to "be d'stributed just before tho guests leave the taLle. At each place have a nest made of paper moss in which place a little candy . chicken. After the luncheon Is served, give each child some colored crayons and an easter egg and announce that you will award a prize to the one who displays the most originality in decorating the egg. . Copyright. 191S, . I . I ^^The Lord^s^Rise^^^X Our lieart* with bit ter_Sne/were add \ \ But yesterday. |\j Thia morn rejotcir^ the/ cveilad, | \) rorv_nnai nam naen yrom ?ne aead. }J And Death and Hell are captive led' Shout, allyejjlad angelic Ihrocg, / / And mortals too*' join yc in one triumphant aonj, fdh riecn Jtom the dead|^* ith naen aa He aaid' ^ j yy jlorioua anthem roll. viOj \ In loud acclaim'^ t earthyrom pole to pole. 1 I wide the tiding* apread, J J ith riaenyrom the deady J fUrssagr (That Eastrr Bringa jy* ' HE MESSAGE of Easter Day to IfyJ men 's promise of a new and L-yyy, nobler life. E?jg?5 Men may dio out of a meaner self here and now into a nobler self, if so they will. And this is the pledge that the offer of Christ to humanity shall find yet higher fulfillment in still diviner forms of being yet to be. So history runs, proclaiming not so much the descent as the ascent of man. step by step, into tho kingdom of the Highest and Divinost of all. Nature is life. Anything in it that looks like death is but a token and certificate of life about to commence anew. Every end thcro is only a beginning?some lower form lotting go its life and casting away its coarser self, that it may re-appear again in forms more beautiful and pu-e. Tho mere leaves that seem to fade and rot, pass downward into the root life of some rarer plant more lovely than themselves, and when tho sun and rains summon them anew come forth in forms more wonderful and hues moro rare than ever they had known before. Tho creeping worm dies out of its meaner life into a winded beauty which Egyptian art and Christian symbolism have alike borrowed to utter?the one its struggling hope, the other its clear undoubtir.g taitn. And this is at once tho fitness and tho suggestiveness of our Easter blossoms. We miss tho lesson of yonder flowers if wo look on them as forms of mere adornment, or see in them only the hues and fragrance of a fleeting life. Beautiful as they are, like us. they will fade and fall. But their special appropriateness lies in this, that in all plant life under Heaven, death is the stepping stone to life moro fair and rich, the law of which is held with themselves. Tho autumn winds strip the plant's branches bare, and wither its blossoms, and to outward semblance quench tho life out of it wholly. But when the spring rains come again and the sun's kindlier rays kiss the greenness back again into the shriveled branches, there has been at work all the time an answering law of life within those branches, more powerful than all other powers besides. And thus our vernal buds best symbolize our Easter fact. How can our hearts refuse, then, to echo those notes of triumph gladness ?? Bishop Henry Potter. ETERNAL LESSON OF EASTER Comes as an Answer to the Age-Old Question, "If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?" There are those who think of death with a shudder, and of the other world with a sinking heart, because death seems to be a breaking of all tho tlpa wllioh fir.i rwl ? t.- ..io. ferenco of the soul into a fori ign worlii, writes Charles K. Jefferson, 1) D., LL. D.t pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City. Tinworld in which wo now live is dear to us because wo know it so well. It is cozy and warm, and we prefer it to any world of which it is possible for us to think. Tho luart likes the old. It shrinks from the untried. Hut the message of Easter is that the other world is our homo just as this one is. The universe is a big house containing many rooms, and we pass from one room to another. The home in all its parts lias been furnished and is conducted by infinite love. The baby does not feel himself a stranger when he comes into our world. Love lias prepared tho way for him, and love lias also prepared tlio way for us in tho world eternal. We are not going to a foreign land, wo are not to live in the midst of strangers, we aro not to suffer from homesickness in a world that is cold and strange?we are going homo. From the first hour we shall feel at home, and we shall fall in at once with the ways of life there, and shall find niirselvoH In thi? nrr.m. ?>/- <. />?' friends. It is an old question which lias haunted the human mind from the beginning: "If a man die. shall he live again?" Easter says, "Yes!" and declares that in the hour of death, a man stands up alive, and complete, and at heme. When Jesus presented himself to his disciples on the first Easter they knew him They found him to be the tame friend which ho had always neon. Ilis disposition hud not changed, nor his attitude to them, nor his purposes for the world. He was the same Jesus. "It dotli not yet appear whet we alia*' be," but of one thing we may bo ce- ain, and that is that we shall alwa; j be ourselves, that our friends shall be themselves, and that the Christ we have known hero will be tho samo Christ forever. Some people get so tired doing nothing that they have no strength left to i do anything else. \? I i 5 ij The Easier lily leans to me W As {f it hade me stay And /torn try mind put Worldly thirty // I gazt upon it and can hear whir of angels' wings: Tha$'k Heaven for the higher hopes y I he Easter lily brings. Their pur p., \ Th, wr Ae? ' H8( ' ^ U' "r' ^ \"y \ ? *X. "Christ Is Risen; I Will Arise" HUMANITY had grown dry, old, withered. All the best springs of its nature had dried up. and there was no How of invigorating hope, and barely anything of pureness and sweetness issuing from it. The etnperor of the world was at once "a high priest, an atheist and a god." The fairest and noblest in life permitted their names to be inscribed upon the "tabulae" of those who had failed to maintain even the tleanliness of the flesh. The human ace had gone to seed. Hut by the overruling of Providence, One Life had been prematurely maintained in righteousness, true to man's original. Divine type. Mown down by tin* sword of injustice, this harvested seed was sown in a garden in Jerusalem. Sown, as the sower of wheat flings his good grain into the soil, and simply leaves it to the mercy of the Master of the earth and the Lord of life! As the farmer merely closes the field gate upon his seeded field and can do no more than wait! Just as we sow the forms of them we have loved, set a stone, or some mark to show where we have laid them, and come away to *?soothe ourselves with weeping Till life's long shadows break In cloudless love." There is a wonderful vitality in a seed. A wealthy man once built a great stone tomb for himself and carved upon it: "This tomb, the ever jasung a none or its owner, must not bo opened to all eternity." Inadvertently the workmen buried a tiny seed with the impious dead inan. Swollen by tho moisture from his decaying corpse, it sprouted, found a crevice where light shone through, grew to it, and through it, and today a tall tree stands with its roots in the old tomb, and the stones so laboriously built into place are shattered and thrown aside by the resistless growing power of what had been contained In that tiny seed. There is an immortal vitality about humanity. That sown in the garden at Jerusalem burst through the tomb, and appeared again, as much more glorious than the l'.ody which had been sown, as the field of corn is lovelier as it waves in the autumn somsMnn than the ban- grain ttie farmer sewed In the spring. "Sown in a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." It is a prudent thing, however, to apply the actual tests to the seeds of the crop, upon the vitality of which much may depend. That sort of a test was applied to humanity at Easter time. i One of ourselves, bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh, was sown, and by the mastery of the Master of Life, the resurrection process was accelerated, and the Innate vitality of man was proved to be a great, glorious reality. It Is the message of spring. It comes to encourage us, just when wo are committing so much wealth to tho iftrrn nier ai/\ o nins I? iEaat^r EUi er lilies, as 1 pass window where Ihey show \ v ity. bring back to me 1 faith of long ago J tear my mother sing gentle Savior's love tear a call that's clear f sweetly from above. ' ^gWk , ru3^1 for 8a'n trough at \ Forgetting those old pre ^ Learned long before we lear . The World and its off at t ^ But when, at Easter time, i * White lilies come agalt ,- Our thoughts turn HeavenW / Still sways the hearts c soil, and its Master.- It says to the farmer, "have no four for results, since the (lowers have come through the ground, your grain will also cotne. The Easter lily is a sign to you of the gracious beauty which will crown your hard labor, which will follow what is so disagreeable at the moment. There WJlfi linthlll tr lnv??1v ?Mw? lilmr I ...... .vvut>in l\MV MJ lllSWUl IUC i I I ^ bulb, remember!" The resurrection message is a signal set up in the race through lifu, reminding it that there is nothing more certain than "Thnt nu'ii may rl??> on impplng ntnni-i Of their dead ii'lvrt to higher things." "lit* is not here," said the heavenly intelligence to those who sought a dead body in the tomb. To the world of men tho message runs, "do not grope in thu grave of disappointed hope, or of unfulfilled desire." "New| ness of life" is yours. Let the past lie dead, as it will. Now days arise for you, with new hopes, better openings. You can never loso vitality! While there is life there is hope. And hope persevered in liuds certain fruition at harvest time. "Ho is Risen" ringB out from thp stone beside tho tomb. And the little crocus hud, thrusting itself through even snow and cold, points the message: "Since I am hero doubt not Tie rose And keep with mo this Luster day." For lie was just tho testing seed, the j first fruits. If he rose, so will our | blessed dear ones in like manner, ever so much better for having been laid . iioiuT7 uo uir *> iiii umaivci uij a }uur I watch to pieces on his tray. The answering message is not simply "I, too. shall rise, some day." Not "TOUCH ME NOT!" only the half comforted cry of bereavement, "1 shall meet them all again ( some time." That is a graveside morality which is only half religious. The true answer to the Easter call "Ho is Risen" is, "1 will arise, and go to my i iiiiit i, miiu win aay unto tltin, ! Father!" "Kesurgam!" "I will ariso!" That Is humanity's watchword now. There is no need for hiding even under the shadow of the cross itself. No shirking of hard duty, even for the blessed security of a life given to devotion and contemplation, away from life's temptations. No sitting under the willow trees in helpless grief. Merry ringlets of golden beauty bedeok even the willows at Kaster time. With all the world springing Into renewed nctlvlty, man too, cries from I r? i rra i tin nttr-rvn I Hi '^|f^ je% **i3lllr , f\^^_ r~ - ? ned to knou) Ny jsjtf if he pun S^^j^E3BBMHBflMBB ard and Christ - j^AlNRj^^fln / men. f'. ^ Shite lilies come at Easter time \ . Lace's kingdom shall endure; \ jt , 'he lily leans to me and 1 , x Xf. Cease doubting and am sure: ( \ fl/ Aearf once m<?/r m lifted by \ Tf,e songs the faithful sing: rhank heaven for the higher hofies 'lt The Easlet lilies bring. \ J his failures,. his. griefs, .his backsliding, "I will arise and.go to my Father." EvPrjt night he reminds himself, "1 Bhull arise again tomorrow to a new life, Bomewhere." Every time he slips back in some manner, he cries, "I will ^ arise." Resurrections are occurring all around us every day. Now grip is taken on work here, new hope of better life there, everywhere the world In trying to rise and bear flowers, not thorns, for no one now deliberately starts out to do any but the right thing. If a little flower can preach an EaBter message, how much more a man or wohmn or child? Cheery fighting against trouble and difficulty has blessing in it for all who witness it. In rising to""better things by sheer hard climbing, many another la helped too. The ruin of a man. who has found his way back to the strength which haB made a man of him again, . is himself one to whom others look and almost incredulously crv. "He Is Risen," and possibly some one may say, "Then will I also cry, "I will arise and go to my Father' also." i - In the words of one of the Bweetest of the Easter hymns, written just as its author was telling his dying body, "I will arise," the Easter message, translated into action, has for its motto: "I fonr no foe, with Thee at hand to bless; . Ills have no tyeight, and tears no bitterness; Where is Death's sting? Where Grave thy victory? . I triumph still. If Thou abide with me." Sharing in Easti \ To have lost no Joy, burled no hops* known no suffering is to cume to Easter day with little sense of its nuaning and fellowship. Only those who have deeply suffered can enter deeply into its glorious message. Kaster is the symbol of life triumphant. life more abundant, life rejoicing over death, it is the birthday of immortality, to be celebrated by all men with gladness. Whatever hope hap been defeated in our lives, Easter offers us the victory,. The dead we loved are not dead; they live forever in newness of life', awaiting our entrance into immortality. The thing* we have hoped to do, the things we have longed to reach, are only anticipations, after all, <jf what the soul shall possess in the larger life that Kaster foreshadows. In our modern living, of the day and for the day, the thought of immortality is often pushed aside. Easter bodI ies it out afresh?immortal love, iroI mortal life, endless joy, everlasting 1 hope, a clarlon-call of power?Harper's Orig'n of the Easter Egg Custom. j | The favor accorded to eggs among ; Eastertide observances is said to have originated from the ancient worship of Ostara, goddess of the East, whose feast was celebrated with much eat; ing and drinklne. manv nnoMai nt. ferings being made, lnluding the egg of sea fowl. From northern Germany the worship extended into Great Britain. The Anglo-Saxon name for April, the season of the festival, was Easter monath, and in Germany this month is still known as Ostermonath. Many other of the popular E&ater observances, especially in the Netherlands and Germany indicate traces of similar origin. The egg Is symbolical of . the resurrection.