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The Seaforth News, 1925-04-02, Page 2rL 1' �NNR The. Easter dinner should be an em standing. feature of the springtitn .for Easter is a day like. Christina and Thanksgiving., when friends 'fro afar are welcomed, when fe mdse gather in reunion, and when the girl and boys are home from college wher they have -been dreaming for week doubtless,' of mother's delicious ear e her fragrant rolls and all the othe good things which only mother ea make. Of course, the best tablecloth wi be forthcoming or, if doilies are pre ferred, one has a wide. cholee of line lace or paper. Silver pager doilie are now used with excellent offeet well -finished tables, A centrepiece o flowers or ferns will make the table most attractive. As for the menu, here is the tra- ditioetal and really' most delicious •din ner for- Easter: Fruit Cocktails Roast Lamb Orange Mint Saue Potatoes with Lemon Butter Canned Peas or Creamed Spinach Butterfly Salad or Springtime Salad Easter -Lily Pudding - Golden Sano Strawberry Huff Cake: Coffee is It not elaborate, for a large p tion of many of the dishes may be. pre pared the day before. The fruit for the cocktails, the deasert and the cake will be all the better for a day's so- journ in some safe place. And most of the other dishes may be partially prepared—the vegetables washed; the stuffing for the lamb made, if it is de - e led to fill it; the elute and table- ware brought forth, and everything but the actual cooking and placing of t Petatees With Lemon Butter call for e, soundznotatoes boiled in their skills, s then peeled, placed in ,a hot dish• and m covered with lemon butter; which is s, made by creaming:together one and a $ !alt tablespoonfuls of butter, one e ta.b espoouful cif finely chopped pare- s, ley 'incl the sane quantity of lemon s, juice. Sprinkle the potatoes \y ✓ paprika before ..,;ending to the tab] n et tally Sa1ec' vest''ornament hut sl.onid not be reeved when the di 11 ser begins with a fruit cocktail; - soup is served first, or whenthe roe u, is not preceded by either souls' or a peti.er, then a fruit. salad is qt on cornett. For the Butterfly Salad o itis e.' 5- if st p- tite ne f e gather. Over the pineapple pla of red apple, unpeeled, and t with slices of orange arranged in t • same way. These fruits form tl wings of the butterflies. Now fi' • the canned red pimento, or the free of the green pepper, cut pieces f the bodies,and little ka e flet, of mane chino cherries and green pepper - make the correct spots on the wing -; Cut the 'feelers from thio strips icelery. Serve th • salad with any pr ferred dressing. I Springtime Salad is made from a ,the spring vegetables that are avai able—tiny green onions, water eves radishes, u encumber• if it can be ha !and lettuce. Shred all the vegetable except the lettuce and mix them wide your favorite dressing. Serve on let- tuce leaves, Easter -Lily Puddin • is ver =_'ii°nt 3 g 3 d u and very pretty. Make it by dissoh ing a quarter cupful of cornstarcl half a cupful of sugar and a quarte teaspoonful of salt in half a eupfu of milk, Add these to one and a hal cupfuls of scalded milk, and cook, stir ring constant y, until the nixtur thickens. Then sinner over boiiin water fir fifteen minutes, add a tea spoonful of vanilla, the stiffly bete whites of three eggs and half a cupf of shredded cocoanut chopped fine Pour into a wet mold and set away t chill overnight, When ready to serve turn out on a pretty plate and decor ate with a few flowers or straw berries. Golden Sauce is made from the yolks of the eggs beaten to a stiff light- eMored froth, then a cupful of powd- ered sugar is added. and the mixture is beaten again until it is thick and lemon colored. Add half a cupful of stiff, thick cream and beat until fluffy and light; flavor delicately with van- illa. Chill for half au hour before serving. Strawberry Fluff Cake is made from any good white or sponge cake recipe, baked in two large layers, and put to - gather with Strawberry Fluff Filling. To make this, beat the white of Gale egg to a partial froth, adcl half a cup- ful of crushed but not strained straw- berries and a cupful of Four -X con- fectioner'ssugar. as', fiat g e the mixture vigorously, using a rotary beater, until it becomes very light and fluffy, This will probably require ten min- utes. When finished the filling should e sufficient to spread generously be - ween the layers and over the top of good-sized cake. In the Name of Jesus Christ. will require a can of sliced pineapple, two large seedless oranges, two red apples, one canned pimento or one or two green peppers, and lettuce leaves. Arrange lettuce leaves on the indi vidusl plates breaking the ribs ton make them Test fiat; then on each lettuce -lined plate place two halves of sliced pineapple, curved edies to- a ''e op. 145 le 0111, . 0 S_ ; to .s L Of Never did the world need the essen- tial meaning and the spiritual slim-. iglus of Easter mere than_. in this year of grace. On every hand are those s whom the state of the world dis- c1, heartens, We are told if we listen to s their lamentation, that religion has railed, that civilization totters. on the brink of ruin, that the plain, homely virtues of faith and loving kindness and mercy ep between men end their fellows are dead or inoperative, arid in this vale of tear: the mourners are the most sensible of mortals, since jthere is no reason to rejoice in try- f Thing wo hear oil see. To such an attitude of mind Taster e comes as a shining and a beautifulre- futation,.as an angel seen by those who are in Sorrow round a tomb. n Easter is not to he observed merely ns ul• the commemoration of a triumph over the grave, a victory over death, nine• u teen centuries ago, it stands for the jtler3 and the pitwer of a resurrection _ here and now ---of a rebirth day, of the springing of new life in this g]ud hour for '�a confident tomorrow," The meaning of the, festival is not to be confined with the ceremony of any sect or any ritual. It cannot all be told in Mug- or in flowers or in the wings and tiro of the moat eloquent sermons. ft is not all in the glow of the hour of prayer and praise and song It goes far deeper than words can Otter; it nachos the deepest cf the truths we know, at the very hent of our human lives, in their need of that which is higher than ourselves, and in their aspiration toward that which is true eternally, It is cads man's resurrection and. i+ot that of Christ alone on which his day insists forever. It. is in your pewee and mine to cast off what i : of the earth earthy, that holds us down to the mundane al nd the material, Easter rtes'• is the f • needom and light, t the g , upspringing joy of the emancipation of the soul of Sean. Least of all the festivals is 14 a time for selfish intro- spection, for the backward look and the unprnlltable resemhlance of fail- ure and disaster, the sin besetting and the shame disfiguring the pattern of our human lives. It is, instead, the time for the looking and thinking and acting beyond and away from our- selves. As in the solemn and beautiful jubilee we consider the lilies, and hear the dishes connpated before sunset on Saturday night. For the cocktails one may ase orange or grapefruit halves for cups; or small glasses or sherbet cups may be preferred. Allow half an orange or grapefruit, Half a banana, a quarter of a_ large juicy apple, two tablespoon- fuls of crushed pineapple and a large strawberry or a maraschino cherry for each serving. Scoop all the fruit from the orange or grapefruit halves, and if these are to be used as cups drop them into cold water until a little while before dinner. Cut' the pulp of the fruit into neat dice, discarding seeds and membranes, and mix all the fruits together. Sweeten IightIy, dram the fruit cups well, then fill their with the fruit mix- ture and set on small plates with a fern leaf or flower beside each. Cut the strawberries or cherries in quar- ters and arrange as a garnish on the cocktails just before serving. The roast of lamb may be either log, shoulder or crown, and any of these may be stuffed, though it will be nec- , essary to have the leg or the shoulder honed for this purpose. The crown of lamb is a handsome dish, but I would; suggest that the yearling be selected for it, as the spring lamb is scarcely fitted for this method of preparation. In preparing a crown of lamb the rib portions of two loins are used, the meat being scraped from the bone be- tween the ribs, down to the lean sec- tion. Then the pieces are placed to gether in a circle, ribs outside, and fastened together to farm a crown.' The centre is sometimes filled with b finely chopped meat, in which the t trimmings of the lamb are placed; but a a very nice poultry filling to which a few chopped chestnuts or mushrooms have been added is very delicious for the purpose. Such a filling may be I used also in a boned Ieg or shoulder of lamb. Flour the ;roast all over and place it in a very hot oven until it is seared T on a!1 sides. Then you may pour about one cupful of boiling water in the pan, season the meat well and lower the heat of the oven. If you have a covered roaster you will not need to I baste the roast at all, hut if you are using an open pan it will be well to baste it every twenty minutes at least 1 for an hour. Serve the roast on a hot platter, garnished with parsley. Be very sure, if your selection of lamb is the leg, to remove all the caul 1 or fibrous white skin. Otherwise the meat will taste somewhat strong, Orange Mint Sauce is a pleasant In change from the ordinary mint sauce. Make it by cutting into small pieces enough fresh mint to fill•a cup. Sprinkle this with three tablespoon - fats of powdered sugar and cover with vinegar. Stand in a warns place T to 'nfuoc for half an hour, and just before serving add the grated rind T of half an orange. Creamed spinach' is a delicious dish and may be preferred' to the peas which are the traditional accompani i msnt for roast lamb. Cook in as little water as • possible half a peck of be spinach. If liked, add a shred or two is of mien during. the cooking. Drain . wellreesin • ns p ; oat every drop of water, th and lie exceedingly chop r ce_dmg'ry tinea Meantime make a cupful of white th sauce by melting one and a half table- Ye spoonfuls of butter and adding a table- Ys spoonful of flour. Cook these together to a smooth paste, then add a cupful of milk and cools until thick and °c smooth. Now fold in a well -beaten ti", egg and pour over the spinach; sire- to mer for just a moment, season to taste with salt and pepper and a mere 0" trace of'nutmeg and serve in a hot dish. Sprinkle With paprika before serving, or if desired, press the yolk of ah.ard-boiled egg through a ricer, E over the spinach, and border with the w finely chopped. egg whites. g 1 EASTER 1 n the name of Jesus Christ— To hrist To whom the sea is as a drop of water, And a fleck of dust the land; o whom the pinions of an eagle are a fan, And the shadow of a mountain as the shadow of His hand. asked for wings in the morning; Plumed they were, like an eagle for a great ascent; asked for wings at night. And they were folded like a flag when the wind is spent. Asked in the morning for power, And it crashed like the tide of the sea over the reverberant floor;' the evening I asked for peace, And it rested like the shadow of a mountain upon a quiet shore. For I asked in the name of Jesus! Christ_ - o whom the sheaves of shining stars Are but a harvest ripe for reaping; o whom the four winds of Heaven Are but a lullaby fey seeping. --Claudia Cranston. The Moon and .aster. The moon is the cause of Easter ing a movable 'festival. Easter Day always the first Sunday after what known yr as the Paschal full moon— at t I a is,the e f url moon upon March 21st, o beginning of the ec esiastital as', or the next fent neon thereafter, mild this full moon fall on a Sunday aster Day is on the Sunday alter, It is impossible for l;asl. r Day to cur earlier than March 22nd or iattr an.Aprii 225. Not for ever e, hun- cd years has Easter fallen 011 the rtner date. The last time it on April 25th was in ISiSti, tester Egg $110 OOO Gift. g��a > In 7,887 the Pope received as an Ea • gift an egg of ivory. When it as opened it was found to contains a o den case and a ruby worth $10,000. 1324 the music, and feel the inspiration of the sermon and enter intothe radiance ler 1 ce and rapture of the morning, 1 Iet us - take thought how We may impart to other lives and bring to other hearts the joy we feel, knowing that as we. are ministered unto it is our duty to minister and to spread 'abroad the message of the Eastertide to a world that needs all the cheer that any has to give. Unfurl he F rl th .Flags of April. Frail larch shadows glimmer liquidly, Edged with the tremor of bewilder- ed rain; .... The pines are stenciled lank and vaporously In oscillating mist; roots writhe and strain To one more cool wet grasp of earth; 0 Spring, In hollows where the stealthy tum- ult hums, A vehemence of rich remembering, Unfurl the, flags of April! Beat your drums! 'In every corner of the woods and val- leys Trembles the little talk of violets; Gust after gust leaps out, flaps loose, then rallies; The reed tastes fire, the white dove tenderly frets; 1 walk on the brink of beauty shiver- ing; Unfurl your flags and boat your drums, 0 Spring! —Joseph Auslander. Infant Spring. Soft and pure fell the snow, Pure, soft, the new lamb lay. February in the field, Sun's heat far away, Wave's cry sad and strange, Lamb's cry weak and wild, No buds in the bleak thorn hedge: Spring is but a tiny child. Tirne. Tick, tick, man, be quick There, you lost a' splendid minute— What a superb chance was' in it; < 1 ala El Dorado—mine me, Virgin hordes of fortune line me. With my la.t'isdi hands I measure Fame and strength and joy tend trea- sure. You are late—you've missed your date. Foal, I'm time -1 never wait, Herbert Hallman. THE WRYOF r -r BY JEANETTE. YOUNG NORTON. - The rel'atienship bi=twe ri a 'Goo Friday hoot erose -hue and an Easter egg is rather a mystery to most of' us, but it exists. The bun was an offering to, and the egg was an emblem of,. the ancient goddess styled "Queen of Heaven," worshipped by different na- tions as Ashtaroth of Holy Writ, Isis of the Egyptians, Ishtar of the Baby- lonian, Diana of the Greeks, Mylitta of thee Assyrians and' Easter of the Teutons, On her crown the egg was used as an emblem of the world, sur- rounded by a serpent representing its materiality, also its immortality. The' egg has always had to do with things religious, used as` a gift at the feast of the Passover, appearing on the table with the figure of the Pas- chal lamb; presaging spring and the birth of new hope it became an -appro- priate gift in all religious communities at Easter time. Just when the idea of coloring the egg became a custom seems to be lost in antiquity, but the idea has gained in popularity with the passing years until to -day they are made things of artistic and exquisite beauty and are gifts worth having. EGG ROLLING, AND T1iE 'LIKE. The Russians are credited with the first hand -painted acid ne eggs, and h p gg , the art became highly perfected hi that coun- try. The Easter rabbit was a pagan symbol of fertility, and on it was early conferred the honor of laying the re- markably decorated Easter eggs. Many things happened on Easter Mon- day besides egg -rolling contests, and friendly egg knockings, It was - the day when women might hit their husbands and square accounts; but Easter Tues- day the men could hit back, so the privilege did not bring much satisfac- tion. On Easter Sunday, if a man met any maid he could lift her three feet from the ground, i£ be had the strength, and then kiss her if she had no eggs to buy him ori with, No won- der that the wives wanted to square accounts on Monday!. Hiding the colored eggs in nests and leaving the hunt on Easter morning, is a custom that is supposed to have originated in Germany, The Ven- etians are responsible for the so-called portrait eggs. The eggs were blown first, then a silken cord or ribbon was run through the holes' at either end, and the portrait of • a friend was paint- ed on the shell to be hung. up by the cord or_ribbon when done. Coming down to us, the idea has de- generated into the so-called dressed eggs, or character eggs. These, after being blown, are mounted lengthwise on sealing -wax feat,' then a face is painted and the egg dressed to fit. Thus' clowns, sisters of charity, book and play people, are all represented by clever figures and are funny and most attractive gifts, One of the oldest carved wooden eggs is in the British Museum in Lon- don, itis hollow, halved and hinged to open and close, and one-half is Iined with gilt paper. St. Cecilia sitting -at the organ is cut out of silk and pasted against the gift background, while in the other half is a little half-inch fi ore g la in on ,� P Y g on,. of the early - v strumeecte. Gold, silver, and moter- E of -pearl eggs held little Cupids with hearts and arrows. The Spanish dip Good in many ways, aril the chocolate in n seription' eggs' anal : these elaborate: decorated with colored sugars are ver beautiful, also very expensive, The Bohemians paint eggs, afte blowing them, then put on a preserve tive liquid that makes them very hard almost unbreakable, The eggs as' painted with geometrical figures that covei•the whole surface, in gay colo connbinations. The East Indians d the eggs, then paint them, and th egg is.a marvel of their cele brated Batik work. The home -colored eggs' which pleas the children; and are quite the sort fo Inc egg hunt, are' not hard to do. Ther are many dyes that come with full di mations for use. Sonne have stenci patterns all ready to apply ,and they give excellent results. But if we are not near a place where these things are on sale, we mast use our own ingenuityn with things at hand. HOW TO 00L0R t)ASPER EGGS. ,First, boil hard as litany eggs as are to be used. Now take two or three of the eggs .and cover thein with bits of onion. skiet and odd nieces of gay - colored ribbons, then.. sew- each egg neatly In a thin 'eco of it Yt cotton cloth P an ut the d p m into a little strong coffee Boil gently for several minutes, lift, met into cold water until cola, then remove the wrappings. Or,,aftee tho egg is done up, put it into bluing water and boil it, and after it is cold and the wrappings are off rub it with a !lightly buttered cloth. This will give a nice gloss and preserve the color. A bit of spinach juice can be used for the green eggs. Make the juice by chopping the spin- ach fine, then putting it into a cloth and squeezing out the juice. Add - a little of the juice to boiling water until you get just the color you want for the egg. Beet juice. will also 'color the?l, as will onions shoed into a pint of water with enough flowers of sul- phur to color it deeply. Boil gently) until the onions aro soft and the .water, well colored, add the eggs and cools' until they are the right shade. The Batik eggs are not hard to do. First draw a design on the egg, then' cover the design with melted wax.i When the wax ie hard, put the egg into the cold dye and let stand until it is the right color. Then place the' egg in hot water to smelt off the Was, i wipe with a greased rag and the egg is done. Little silhouette figures of black paper may be pasted on a white egg, then'the egg can be varnished over and, wren dry and hard, you will have a very pretty egg. Odds and ends of sills put into hit-. t o ing.water,•if gay colored, will give off enough cc:oring to dye the eggs beau.' tifully, if you lade other dyes for the purpose. Gold or silver. inscriptions' may be put on the eggs with fine, brushes, or. pens, after they are dyed and before they are greased. While it is generally conceded that the eggs are unharmed by the'llyes, it is unwholesome to eat the eggs after they have gone through the process; as the she' -•l is porous, we do not ad- ise using s g them in any way but as an. aster emblem and toy, April. '— Mid April, season of green paint, spring colds and love lyrics, is an enchanted April" whether it blows I r shines, for it is always a prelude , May. And for all the scoffing of the cynics, it is responsible for many the loveliest lyrics there are. Tn Dreams and Dust," the far -too -little renown volume of Don Marquis's seri us poems, are these stanzas: In the country places By the silver brooks April airs her graces; Ill the country places Wayward April paces, Laughter in her looks; In the country places By the silver brooks. y THE. MIRACLE' OF SPRING.. .y y To me nothing is more delightfu thee. to _hear the first robins calling r from the treetops. .They real'iy make one feel that wtnter•is overland gone, - e that spring has actually cone. o But itis not eine swallow that'makes a SUogxier or one or- two' robins that ✓ snake a spring. After listening with ye pleasure and hopefulness to tiro ear - he liost robins tins year and feeing. that - it was time to make spring plans, my hopes were dashed by the coming of a e real snowstorm, ansi it web many days r before the robins were heard again. e, March is Certainly a contrary -1 month. One never knows what he, Iike I! a conjuror, may have "up his sleeve," I! It may be a spring. poen! or a show- , stoe•y; and when, after, one balmy day, the cold wind whisties around our i houses, it almost eeeins as if March might be laughing in that same sleeve over our disapptiintment, ' We are really never sorry to I 1 y Y say good -by to March. We speed him as a parting guest with right good will land think of him as a rough"fellow in comparison to dela-tier April. Still, March isa P• M forerunner, 1 herald of pleasant thin : r s andawakes 1 things, c he in our hearts the feeling that sprung,"df not, actually al hand,. is very near. ,;, And what a hopeful, happy season spring is! Expectation is in the very Mr. The birds are returning, the trees are beginning to bud, the green things 2 to come out of the earth, everything typifies a return to life, a real resur- 1 rection. And to -clay, the Sunday -be- 1 fore Easter, makes us feel that the fexpected is very near; for Easter anti spt•ing arc words associated one with the other, What a day of expectation and hope was the first day of the week so long ago, when Christ made His entry'intc Jerusalem! The people then, as people would do to -day, greeted n new pro- phet -with cheers and acclamation. In their joy and excitement they` cast their garments in His path and waved branches cut from the trees bordering the roadside. This prophet was to be their king. He was entering tine Holy City to set up an earthly kingdom, for so they believed; and in that belief they rent the Me with" their glad cries. Even Christ must have been affect- ed by their joy. Would He be accept- ed, or rejected, when Hereached Jeru- salem? He knew, as many an earthly king has known, how little one may depend upon enthusiasm. The plaudits of a multitude are not to be taken very seriously. Al average crowd is easily influenced one way of another, and composed chiefly of excited per- sons, or those 'who have come out only for curiosity's sake. Many kings, even as the King of Kings, have come to their'own,-and their own have not: re- ceived them. It is because the picture which the story of Palin Sunday .brings before us is so human that we dwe,1 upon it so tenderly. It is old, but ever new; just as disappointment, following ex- pectation,is an. old but ever -recurring human x na experience, Yet who' would not hope, even 11 many of those hopes should not come to realization here? A man or a Wo- tan is dull, indeed, who never has any hopes rising in the heart, expectations of something better than he or she las at the present moment, "Tis not what man does that exalts mini, But what than would do." Truly, that is so, and without the sp'irations that come to us we never should rise above a very mediocre &tate., Day dreams, air castles, ,call them what you will, they are often our alvation. Some one once said contemptuously, n the presence of a well-known Eng= ish bishop, that some scheme was like uilding castles in the air. "But where olse should you build them?" asked the ishop. "If they are not built in the ir, they will be of the earth, earthy.". Disappointments, will come; we mill- et prevent them; they are a part of ter earthly experience, .and I suppose. eat by thein we grow. But better a isappointment than never to have had hope. And often, too, what leas ap- eared as a disappointment may, after lo years, be seen as a blessing. ' "Laurel grows high On the mountain; The thorn grows Low -love --- Yet the thorn Has crowned a Height Laurel will Neves•. now," eggs in red dyes, emblems of the cruci- fixion, the blood of Christ, On' Good Friday, purple eggs placed in small e boxes of 'ashes were popular gifts. SWISS SUGAR EGGS. o to Switzer'' -and isresponsible for the sugar chrystallized eggs holding views 0f seen through the glass set in the end; " also far kaleidoscopic figures constant- ly shifted into new forms by the turn- o ing about of the egg. Modern candy makers have. improved ole these eggs 'A FOUR ROOM: BUNGALOW, DESIGNED BY W. W. PURD Tn the building of a small home,' it c just as important to have c .ietully prepared plans as in the building of a more pretentious one. Every inch of space must be ntilized. ate hall Wasted d n l space cats just 1st as much per cubic foot as if it were utilized to good ad- vantage. in adding to the size of any room in .the house. In re- cent years the sheen home has been given more careful study than in. years prior to the war. Phis is due largely to the high, price of all building materials, People hove found that inhere, in pre-war limes, the average size of liortec was,say 20 by, 30 or 32 Tt,, poseibly with 9 ft. 6 in. ceilings, that ]IOW a home 26 by 26 ft. 'would meet their requirements ;e' to the number of rooms: If rooms arot'arerully laid Out with refer- ecce to null -space, light and veil- LIma 1.0 Deo Pooh If XO 5100 Bele DC ll 12seoM 11X10 -Gr Livi it , Debi,. as ..xnmr.cItcD lead i for the average . sized bedroom, The living and dining rooms can he proportionately reduced. In the pion here illustrated, we have two wo far r sized bedrooms and bath h o earn p off of a small ]' g , m 1 ten !es' hall. The eutrauee is from site -open porch direct ;into a good- sized living room .anti kitehen, with breakfast alcove. The root is. high enough 10 give stor- ageample,p i space n the attic;: There is a Tull' basement with warm air•. !heating' plant which, if... placed in .the center of the base - meat, should ase-ment,,should easily heoat all rooms with no difficulty. Tiro interior trine is fir- with hardwood' floors .and linoleum in the kitchen. 1lsing siding or•ce- Meat for exterior walla, .asphalt shingles on the roof. this home • tier nesd'iaoti:5 mora should 'be built for about 19,000, excloslt•e of heating and plumb by 10 ft. 6 in.. or 11. ft. dig. - Hints of alien glamor Even reach the town; Urban muses stammer Hints of alien glamor, But the city's clamor Beats the voices down; Hints of alien glamor Even reach the town. Meeting the Easter Bunny. On Easter morn at early dawn before the cocks were -crowing I met a bob -tail bunnykin and asked whew the was going. 'Tis in the house and out the house atipsy, tipsy -toeing, ' 'Tie round the 'louse' and 'bout the house a -lightly I am going," "But what is that of every hue you merry in your basket?" "'Tis eggs of gold and eggs of blue,. I wonder that you ask it. Tis chocolate ate e ' S an. bonbon g eggs gg and egg's of lad and gray, Ibr every child in every house on bonny Easter Day " He perked his ears and winked his .s eye and twitched his little nose; He shook his-tail—what tail he had— and stood upon his toes. "T mast be gone before the suis; the east is g7•owing gray; 'Tis almost tinge for bells to chime,' So he liippety-hopped away. —Rowena B. Bennett in Youth's Com-' panion.' Mi0 Those who always try Y to get sonnet thing for nothing usually get exper- iOncc. a s b U a 0 ti d a p 1 A1 ass 5,lfyll Egg. ... Most Easter eggs are made- of chocolate, but 011 one occasion an egg made of silver andiii old was presented to Queen Victoria Eugenie -of Spain. This remarkable, egg . was very large,, exquisitely decorated with n'ar cirri, and ,c. Ttained an assortment of the choicest .sweets that the country produced, By pressing a concealed' button, it could be illuminated with electric light, wliich revealed the beau- ties of the workmanship, The cost .of making • the egg was 0081' $12,000, and the Queen of Spain commanded that it should be preserv- ed intact. Her instructi6ns 1001:0 car- ried out, and this unique Easter egg may still be seen in the Royal Palace at Madrid. • A smile strikes nil ,as well as out.,