The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 05, 1912, Image 3
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
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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."
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t- ? ' ? SPRING
Millinery Exhibit
NINETEEN TWELVE
We announce our formal showing of the new
Hats tor spring and summer wear. We extend
a special invitation to the ladies of Camden and
Kershaw County to visit our parlor.
The offerings will be characterized by master
pieces of American and European Designs.
Every hat is absolutely new? and many of the
creations exclusive with us.
We cordially invite you and your friends to
inspect this, the largest and most beautiful of
ferings in made hats and millinery goods that
has ever been shown in Camden.
The Misses Gerald
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