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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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^^The Lord^s^Rise^^^X
Our lieart* with bit ter_Sne/were add \ \
But yesterday. |\j
Thia morn rejotcir^ the/ cveilad, | \)
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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.
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\ Forgetting those old pre
^ Learned long before we lear
. The World and its off at
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* 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
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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
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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
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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.