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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times, 1920-4-1, Page 2A Fair Exchange The. game year that Mary Marsh lied a black hen sitting on twelve big brown 'turkey egg's in the corner lot her moth r't" d1 ditowe , house, ,mels Devin had a white hen sitting On twelve dluek eggs In *box in his father's garage. The children had neves lived on. a. farm,; and se they did not know much about fowls; this was theiirr 'fleet • exlperiment. • They were always meeting at the. genet ' that divided their back yarda to ta' ik about their plans foe the two broods, whieh Were to hatch on the same clay, Easter Monday; if all went well. - Jock was inclined to brag abci•zt lila ducks, and 'that worried. Mary a good deal•; but she always stood up for her 'own side of the question. "Ducklings are ever so much hand - seiner than young turkeys," Jock said one day. Mary's blue eyes looked grieved. "But new turkeys are just like babies;"' eke argued, "They say peat, ,peed"' .lock laughed at that. "Did you ever hear a baby say peat, pest?" he• asked. Mary began to think hard it was her way of keeping back tears, but one tear got away somehow and ran ,clown her nose. Then a sudden thought struck her, and she smiled in triumph, "Anyway, 'gobblers gobble naoet beaut'i'fully," she said. Jock wanted to reply instantly that gobblers chase you all round the yard, too, but he was sorry about the tear; ea he said nothing. They parted good friends after all. Jock went off whistling with his hands in his pockets. He was saving his money to get a bicycle, and he felt sure that the twelve ducklingsi meld bring enough money later ,on. to make his bank much heavier. Mary. dried her tear on a tiny hand-' k rehief and then went hack to her! eiayhouse, singing. She did not in -i toad to sell the black hen's brood; she loved pets, and surely a dozen lively turkeys would make good company. Her plan was to keep them eo long as; they thee!. 'rb.at it'£;ht at supper, Tock brought' up the stibjeec of his hen. "Si, yD1.1re going to raise ducks, are. you?" said Jock's father. "Well,' they're tame ::hap: and ninke pretty' god pets. What's Mary gone in ger?" "Oh, jus.. terkey'e," Jock anew wed with a superior air. :.But she thinks' ale's made a spies aid choice. She's `M bund to have something to pet." r. D .v,s looked thoughtful. "I'm alraici she won't find it easy to pet tarn re's " be said, ini, "If she can find Zie floe: € of turkeys in time to drive them x ie. irate e thunderstorm, she'll be tang well. They wander all over ,. crcion." Jc : is looked wended daring the rest off the mea:. It seemed a dreadful pity about Mary; she was worse off than he had tho-aght. He pictured her frilling about through the briars; searching Tor her wild pets. He seem - e to see her trying to shoo them Imam lin the thunder and rain. "'That's a boy'sdworl:"" he thought un- ily. Then he shrugged his ehonld- era. Well,. it was Mary's own fault; the had not asked his advice, and if he told her now she would begin to Be whistled very hard as he Mary held her firmly under one arm white rhe exchanged the eggs, Finally, with the twelve duck eggs in her basket, she went back to Black- ie. ,She walked slowly with her pree- ous burden. "OfeCourse," she said to herself, "Jock won't understand, axed at first he will be disappointed, but some day he will thank me." A few days later Mary heard Jock calling her just as she had finished breakfast. She guessed what he want- ed, and her heart began to beat fast She went out to the fence, trembling a little; her cheeks were red, "Whitey's hatching," Joc1c told her. She noticed a queer look on his face. "Oh!" eaid Mary faintly, "Then Mackie must be hatching, too," Jock opened the gate and jointed her, "Come on, let's see," he said. They walked toward the old Rower house in silence. Presently Mary broke into a run with Jock close at her heels. When they reached the nest they found Blackie clucking proudly. Lifting the hen with great care as a poultry rais- er had shown her how to do, Mary found the nest half full of little new fowls. She took out one and Iooked it over. with great care. "Is—is this a turkey?" she faltered. "Of course it is," said Jock; but he still looked queer. Mary winked her eys in that queer way she had. "It ought not to be a turkey," she said, "It ought to be a d -d -duck!" she c�•i:ld not understand what had happened. Neither of them said anything for a moment; then Jock started to whistle. Suddenly he stopped short. "Mary,'' he said, `'I'm go x g to ask you s'omethin_g: Did you change the eggs?" Mary bowed her head. She was afraid to look at Jock, "I found out that you can get your bicycle sooner with turkeys," she answered after a moment. "So I changed Blackie's eggs for Whitey's But I was oh, so careful!" "Well," said Jock, "I did the same thing. Ducks make better pets. I made the exchange late one night; I was going to tell you later on. And then old Whitey began to hatch ` ducks!" They stood stock still for a moment foal ng at each ether; then they both burst out laughing.- It did sewn fun- ny, after all.. "I know—we'll divide," suggested Mary-. Jock shook his head. "The hens would hardly stand for that," he said. They decided to let things stay as they were. But later on both hens were kind enough to sit again; and. that time Whitey hatched valuable turkeys and Blackie had a beautiful family of ducks. strolled round the yard after supper. Meanwhjie Mary, too, was talking eabout _fowls. Her family were very each 'interested in her plans, although they knew very little about raising steeds, and said so. lABut I do know one thing," said 3► fry's father, "Turkeys bring a better price in the market than ducks awe chickens bring." Mary looked at hien with round blue eyes. "Can you make more money by selling turkeys than by selling decks?" she inquired. "Yes, a good deal more, I should 02.y," her father replied. M•aey ashed to be excused and went oat on the porch to think. She saws Jock pass, whistling. Poor Jock! He was se sure that he would have his leteyele before long, Yet here she was,the owner of the brood that would bring the big pries. She ?thought the matter ever for a long time, then all at once she made up her mind. It would be hard to man- age, age, but •she was going to see that ,dock did not have a disappointment like that. She darted into the house, then came out again and crept through the S dusk down: to the place where the ' tslalbok hen 'was sitting. The hen knew j her well and made soft ehuckling remises aa; she entered,. 'Keep perfeotly atilt,,Mary whir- Pere t What I'm. 'going to do won't make a bit of difference in the world Ito 'rort, r She tilted old Blackie gently to ono gide, wad took ort the 'twelve eggs and laid t'h'orn 3n the bottom of the basket alto had brought. Thea she covered them ,with a warm shawl. Mackie .gave one OF twe isoft squawks 4f dismay', but as Mary turned to go eche nettled baoic in the neat ads if nothing had happened. May was ed that Blackie took matters so oalml and that t the weather was too wane for the eggs to get 'hilted. Carrying the 'basket carefully, she 4 slipped through the side gate and into the Davis gar'ag'e. Old Whitie wax ewe!: herder to handle than old Blackie f he fussed ar.d pecked, lent Games For Easter Monday.. If you're somewhere between five and fifteen, and you're invited to. an Easter Monday Party, you, will enjoy the !following games, Humpty Dumpty; Stuff a pillow caseplumply, making it as egg- shaped shaped as possible. 1Yl.irk a face near the top, and tie. a band of bright rib- bon or •cloth, cravat fashion, a little below the middle. The pillow should look quite IIunlyty-Dumptyishby this means. Now set 'MrIlunzpty upon It chair bach or on stn <improvised shelf, He may need to be weighted inside. Let each child in turn have a shot at him with a Light baseball or a toy ball heavier than rubber. Some- one should be appointed to keep score, and each child who knocks Humpty Dunepty off his perch is credited with 2, A child who simply touches him with the ball, but does not knock him over, is credited with 1. Have as many rounds as you wish, and then Add lip the scores to see who has won. Baster Eggs High: Divide the child- ren up into companies, and line the companies up in two rows, facing each other. Give the captains of each line a gayly painted Easter egg to be passed from hand to hand down the line as rapidly es possible. The child at the end of each line, as soon as he receives the egg, must shout "High!" Of oourse, in the haste that will re- sult from the race the egg is likely to be smashed in transit. In that case the side smashing the egg is pen- alized, and everybody must pay a forfeit. In the meantime another egg can be supplied if you wish to snake another try at the relay race. Peter Rabbit's Adventures: This is a variation of the old-fashioned game of stage coach. Each child is given the name of some character er object in the famous story of "Peter Rabbit." Seat the children he a ring and begin to tell the story, As you use the names of the characters or objects, the children answering to them must rise and hop three steps rabbit fashion. When Peter Rabbit's house is mentioned, all the children ex- ehange places, end the one without a seat must tell a •tale. - Easter Bouquets: Seat the children in a circle and start the game by saying, "I picked an. Easter bouquet; in it I put a lily." The next in the, . ring must repeat this and add another' flower to the boquet. The third con- tinues by repeating what, the first and second children have said, and adds i still a third flower.. - 1 It will be quite a large and varie- gated bunch of posies that results.. 0 Fragrant Bells of Easter. O fragrant bells of Easter You softly ring at dawn, In mossy dell and woodland, By garden bed and lawn, Where w'inter's snows have melted The brooks again are free To ripple on in gladness And share your minstrelsy. O elhosen belle of Easter 'Tis yours to bud an bloom To tell the wondrous story Of life from out the tomb, Where war has left its follows Yon lift above the sod Your loving cups, ' sweet censors That bear the Peace of God, The FIowers of Easter The Easter lily has been cultivated for many years in Bermuda, that beautiful group of coral islands in the North Atlantic, which forms one of the •gems of the British. Empire. A lovely sight are the fields of lilies, stately and pure on their sturdy stalks. The Easter lily was not or- iginally native to Bermuda, however. Nobody seems to know who first plant- ed it there. But there is no doubt of the fact that it came rtrom the far East. Presumably some far -voyaging mariner, whose home was in Bermuda, brought it back with him. When we speak of the "lilies of the field"—to which Jesus referred, when. He declared that they were adorned more beautifully than Solomon in all his glory—we think of this type of Easter lily. But the truth is -that no . such lilies were known in Palestine at the time when Christ lived. Thus the so-called Madonna •lily, supposed to have been bestowed upon the Virgin Mary by the Angel of the Annunciation and which is a different variety, known to botantists as can- didum, is a mistake of art,. It appears in many of the paintings of Murillo. If Jesus never saw an Easter lily, what 'was the flower to which He re- ferred? Some have thought that it must have been the lily of the valley; but it does not grove in fields, Muck more tMiikely does it seem that He meant the calla lily which was cults., vated on a large scale in Egypt and (probably Palestine) thousands • of years ago, Th Egyptians grew the calla 'as a food -plant. It deveTops, underground, fleshy tubers tfiiak somewhat resemble potatoes, though more elongated in shape. With preliminary boiling, they may be cooked for the table by frying, baking, or do any other way, that potatoes are cooked. In Egypt, anciently, (and; rpresum- ably in the Levant), calla tubers are one of the Most important food crops, They were grown over extensive areas in eaCh annual 'season of the Nile's overflow. At the time of their Mos. *inning the fields of them must have presented to the eye ,a beautiful pic- ture. Realizing whioh fact, we may reasonably suppose that the calla Wite in Chriit'e mind when He spoke of the "lilies of the field," The 1riin ° h.rist. 1 He ,�. and walked ed on the hillside after the night had gone, But the radiance of His forehead was not the look of the dawn, y y the mists were still undrawn„ For the da had hardly broken, and He stood in the old dim garden beside Jerusalem, wasnotlightgarment's Alai it the zg of the lilies that 'gleamed ors His hem, For the dew and the cold and the shadow were heavy still on them. This was the light around-im and the glory about His head: "Because 1 live, my beloved shall live," He said..- Perhaps He stands in the dawning of this new Eastertide, When the graves of the world are many and its tears not wholly dried, And names to Himself in the silence the dead who have nobly died. And but that our eyes are holden, su"rely our hearts would bow At the whiteness of His presence there in the garden now, The fair light on His garments and the beauty that binds His. brow. He shines with the hope of the ages that He brought from the dark of death: "Because 1 live, so also my own shall live," He saith. *1 'f4'11,Orre'°rue'� INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 4. Israel Ruled by Judges—Judges 2: 6-23; Golden Text -2. Chron. 15: 4. 1. Now when Joshua. The book of Judges takes up the story of the Is- raelite people in Palestine after the death of Joshua. In 1: 1-2; 5 there is a ,brief summary review of what had taken place since the invasion of Wes tern Palestine :under Joshua's leader- ship. From this we learn "that the various tribes invaded the land either singly or in small groups; that in many instances they did not destroy the older population, but settled peace- fully among them; and that, in par- ticular, the large cities of Canaan, as well is the fertile valleys and the niar- &tihxe plain, remained an the possession of the Canaanites" (Peake's Com.). The conquest was by no means com- plete when Joshua finished his great task, but he had left the Israelite people strongly established, both east and west aef Jordan, Their courage, their constan y their steadifastness of puupose, shear sense of unity, and their faith in the God who had led them out of Egypt, were to be put to the test again in the years that followed, but the heroic spirit of Joshua remained with them and other great leaders were raised up to carry on his work. 10. There arose another genera, tion. It is always possible that the children may not be as good as their parents, but when that happens it is surely, in large part at least, the fault of the parents. In this case the younger generation had not been properly instructed: They knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel. Absorbed in the busy activities of life in a new land and under new conditions, build- ing houses, cultivating fields- fighting battles, they had not taught their children. Hence the evils which fol. lowed. 14-15. The anger of the Lord. The Old Testament teaches the love of God, but it also declares His wrath. The writer, or rather the editor, of the stories of the Judges, supplies us here with his comments upon the history. lIe interprets the calamities which came upon the people as the re- sult of their evil doing, and as a divinely ordained - discipline intended to lead them to repentance.. The ref- erence in v. 15 -as the Lord had spoken, etc., is to the warnings con- tained in Deut, 28. Indeed, the entire passage which we study to -day bears the mark of having been -written by one who was perfectly familiar with the book of Deuteronomy. 16-18. The Lord raised up Judges. The order of events, as the writer eees them, (1) sin, in forsaking the Lord; (2) defeat and oppression at the Bands . of their enemies; (3) distress and repentance, and (4) the raising up of a deliverer. And this he sees re- peated over and over again. He sees, and sees truly, that the hand of 'God is ever present, working mightily, not compelling men to do His will, but overruling even their misdeeds, and !graciously providing a way of -escape from all the calamities which they bring upon themselves. That by them I may prove Israel. Out of Isra-el's own failures the Lord will provide a testing and a discipline. The presence of these enemies whom Israel has failed to subdue. or to drive out will furnish proof of fidelityi. God's laws are so ordained that the To put this, in terms of our modern life and modern ways of thinking, temptations whioh beset us, and • whide often arise out of our own deficienoiee and errors and failures, may become a means to our betterment. A Memory, Easter, 1920. There were no thorns upon his brow, No long steep way to Oa3vary Yet Christ he gave the same pas The6, Hie life for all humanity. There was ho eros a Cross inwt the ak Not one was he of Tirl:dnitirr �!e Yet Christ he lives the s*n a ea Thal For man's mot high vinity. .. The Stone at the Door of the Tomb. There is an Easter of the individ- ual soul as surely as there is. a formal Easter of the church; for the shone that Joseph of Arimathea placed at the door of the sepulchre, is not only part of a great historical event" but also an everlasting ,symbol. In the heart of every one of us is a sepulchre in which lies the body of a crucified Christ, and at the door is a stone. It may be that in our child- hood or in our youth we knew the light of his countenance, but we have .permitted the cares -of the world to hide it and to separate us from Him. We have seen Him buffeted by selfish interests and at last 'crucified at the inexorable demands of a life that we have allowed to renounce and deny Him. We say that He is dead, and at the door of his tomb we place a stone to keep all that we have left of Hirn from desecration; a stone that is a great agglomerate boulder of pity i and remorse and apology and excuses; the claims of family, the demands of j business, the irresistible pressure of circumstances. And then one morning we awake to find that some angel of unselfishness --adze need for some great suffering or sacrifice --leas rolled away the stone, and in the garden of our heart we see again the risen and living Christ. 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The distributing the. pace •or Pasch egg, which was ones observed by the entire Christian, world, is now universally confined 3 the children, In England the folks ' 'e � and some art an a xx a a m s in I., q s'h , F' Scotland the young folk, still have their dyed ,hard-boiled eggs; which they either ion or throw at. one am other and finally end up by eating the eggs. In many various an. as the me en Easter women ret ham the Shoes on E women do day. At and the 1 the winner cake .and the other carries a cakes as he receives ous householders. France first culinary to or peachconfectionery; of the counties and spired dent customs prevail, sue},,t n folk lift the women folk Monday and then bbs abate on Tuesday. In Dun. men remove the women'$. Easter Monday, and then the the same on the following Eas�tertime the churchmen arty arrange a balls game s being regaled with tansy tansy pudding; while 'in counties the town . clerk baskets containing Easter an altering, and in return a gratuity from the vari- ous rut turned her artistic and .. lents to risking the Easter this arose from the fact that eggs were at this i season: very scarce and yet in great~ demand. These eggs .were first made from fondant and -then coated with chocolate or various colored fondants. There were ,some made to be kept as momentoes, and these had crystallized surfaces and a view of a landscape arranged inside. These eggs were prepared from foundations •af plaster paris and its substitutes, and various decorations were used to ornament the finished product. April Fool. • Little'Miss Frown, break into a smile, Show your dimples, and let us see • Tite glint of heaven in two bright eyes Where the glint of •heaven should always be. Beam and dimple. Oh, follow this rile, For that is the way to April fool. Little Miss Quarrel, be sweet and brave, Drive angry feelings away, away; Refuse to utter one sharp rat Speak gentle things on this April day, Be kind and gracious. Oh, follow this rule, For. that is the way to April ft 1.� Little Miss Lazy, rise with the:; ark, Study your lessons and know them well; Run down.the road to the village school; Run into school when you hear the bell Be quick and eager. Oh, follow this rule, For that is the way to April fool. Little Miss Heedless, tie your shoe; Gather your playthings in neat 'array; Pick up the scissors and sweep the room; Bind your looks with a ribbon gay. Think and remember.. Oh, follow this rule, For that is the way to April fool. Coloring Easter Eggs. Many mothers object to the use of dyes in coloring Easter eggs that the small children use. Yet they are most anxious that their wee folk have variety of Easter goodies. Have you ever tried the hone veg- etable dyes? Eggs may be dyed a lovely shade of yellow by cooking the eggs in a pan with the skins of yellow onions; the amount used will deter- mine the amount of coloring. Spinach and parsley will give the green coloring, while beets will col•ore1 from the shade of delicate pink to a sleep red. Names, dates and mottoes may be readily written on the eggs by using a small brush and liquid fat. Write this on before dyeing. The surface of the egg must be absolutely clean and the writing should be set 'about one hour before cooking the eggs. It will take but a little practice to provide a large variety of these eggs. The eggs may be made from sponge cake, dipped in either fondant or water icing,• and then decorated with small flowers or a name or greeting written with icing. • Bohemian Easter Riding, 'In various parts of Bohemia now the principal' State of the new Ceecho- tSlovalc'. Republic, a •cu, ioae old custom prevails, that of "Easter r,iding." On each Easter day, at 4 o'clock yin'•: the morning the riders assemble, dres- sed iv black and carrying crosses, flags and. other emblems. Front Schonwald they proceed cid...a three I hours' Tide to I ulrn where they attend •service, The driest, after a se1'mdt wherein lie refers to the horse as a •symbol of power, bestows his bone - diction on the anirnais and their ride ere. This done, the riders visit the neighboring castles, where they re. ceive thospitality, •subsequently making their way homeward, escorted by a band and a large crowd, 'rho origins. of this curious custom, is lost in the mists of antiquity. l It seems! to ins that laa,ster(,in•ip a batter time t7 mala4 raxalttl,io titihsn New ' 'leave, All the wor e turning' over ne' 1 x to n a r & i ii qr A , M A Wilt* but fresh, Lely us do t M. adoltalk 7444i ILIA., tilt