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The Brussels Post, 1920-4-1, Page 7ei t A Fair Exchjigc me year that Mary Marsh 6 Q a black heat sitting on twelve 1g brain turkey eggs in the corner tot her metheers. old flower house, (Task Davie had a white hon (sitting en twelve duck eggs da a box in hie lather's garage, no children had never lived on a farm, and so they did not know much about fowls; this was their first ex:pertinent. They were always meeting at the Leena& that 'divided their b ok yards to talk about their plans for the two broods, which were to hatch on the same day, Easter Monday, if all went weal. Jock wan inclined to brag about his 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 - Emmet than young turkeys," Jock said 'one day. Mary's blue eyes looked grieved, "But new turkoye are just like babies;" she argued:. "They say peet, poet!" Z Jock laughed at that, "Did you ever hear a baby say peat, peat?" he .aslced. ` Mary began to think hard it was i iter way of keeping Vault tears, but one tour got away somehow and ran down her nose. Then a sudden thought struck her, and she smiled in triumph. "Anyway, gobblers gobble most beautifully," she said. Jock wanted to reply instantly that gobblers chase you all round the yard, too, but he was sorry about the tear; so he said nothing. They parted good friends after all. Jock 'went off whistling with his hands in his pockets. He was saving hie money to get a bicycle, and he felt sure that the twelve ducklings would bring enough money later on to make his bank much heavier. Mary dried her tear on a tiny hand- kerchief and then went back to beri playhouse, singing. She did not in -I tend to sell the black hen's brood; she loved pets, and surely a dozen lively turkeys would stake good company. Her plan was to keep them so long me they lived. J ht u er btu That night at supper, aubrought o up the subjaot of his hen, - "So you're going to raise ducks, are you?" said Jock's father. "Well, re tame chaps and make pretty good pets, What's Mary gone in good "Oh, just turkeys," Jock answered with a superior air. "But she thinks! she's made a splendid choice. She's bound to have something to pet." Mr, Davis looked thoughtful. "I'm afraid she won't find it easy to pet turkey's." he said. "If she can find her flock of turkeys in time to drive then( in from a thunderstorm, she'll be doing well, They wander all over creation." Jock looked worried during the rest of the meal. It seemed a dreadful -- pity about Marv; she was worse off than he' had thought. He pictured her trailing about through ;the briars, searching for her wild pets. He seem- ed to see her trying to shoo them borne lin the thunder and rain. "That's a boy's work" he thought un- easily. Then he shrugged his should- ers. Well, it was Mary's own fault; silo 'had not asked his advice, and if he told her now oho would begin to cry. He whistled very hard es he strolled round the yard after supper. Meanwhile Maey, too, was talking about fowls. Her :family were very much interested in' her plains, although they knew very little about raising fowls, and said so. "But I do know one thing," said Mary's father. "Turkeys bring a better price in the market than ducks and chickens bring." Mary looked at him with round blue eyes. "Can you make more money by selling turkeys than by selling ducks?" she inquired. "Yes, a good deal more, I should say," her father- replied, Mary aelted to be excused and went out on the porch to think. She saw Jock pass, whistling. Poor Jock! He was so sure that he would have Itis bicycle before long, Yet here she was, the owner of the brood that would bring the big price. She thought the matter over for a long time, thea all at once site made up her mind. It would be hard to man- age, but she was going to see that Jock did not have a disappointment like that. She darted into the house, then came out again and crept through the dusk down to the place where the Week hen was sitting. The hen' know her well and made soft elteckdling noises as she entered. "Keep perfectly stili," Mary whie- pered. "What I'in going to do won't make a bit of difference in the would to you." She bitted old Blackie gently to one nide, and took out the twelve eggs and laid them In the bottom of the basket site had brought. Then oho covered them with a warm shawl, Blackie (gave ono or two soft squawks of dismay, but es Mary turned to fee the settled back in the nest as if nothleg has happened. Mary was OM that Blackie took natters to oalcnly, and that the weather was too warm for the eggs to got ailed, Carrying the basket carefully, she slipped through the side gate and into the Davis garage. Old Wilkie wee much harder to handle than •old Blackie. hail bet I, She fnseed and pecked, but Mary held her firmly under one arm While she exchanged the egge. Finally, with the twelve duck egge in her basket, she went back to Blaolm ie. She walkkad slowly with her preo- oue burden, "Of course," she said to herself, "Jock won't understand, and at first he will be disappointed, but soma day he well 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," Joek told her. She noticed a queer look on hie face. "Ohl" said Mary faintly. "Then Blackie must be hatching, too." Jock opened the gate and joined her. "Come on, let's see," he said. They walked toward the old flower house in silence. Presently Mary broke into a run -with Jock close at her heels, When they reveled the nest they (found Blackie clucking proudly. Lifting the hen with great caro as a poultry rais- er had shown her how to tio, Mary found the nest half full of little new fowls, She took out one and looked It over with genet 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-duckl" ahe c'•t.ld not understand what had happened. Neither of them said anything for a moment; then Junk started to whistle. Suddenly ho stopped short. "Mary,' he said, "I'm go ng to ask you something: Did you change the egg's?„ Marybowed her er hea d, Sha was afraid to look at Jock. "I found out that you can get your bieycle sooner'with turkeys," she answered after a moment. "So I changed Blacirio'e 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; 1 was going to tell you later on. And then aid Whitey began to hatch ducks!" They stood stock still for a moment looking at each other; then they both burst out laughing. It did seers 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 tet 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 fancily of ducks. Games For Easter Monday. it you're somewhere between flue end fifteen, and you're invited to an Easter Men lase .. -arty, you will enjoy -tits (hollowing games Htimpty Dumptyt Stuff a pillow eses plumply, making It as egg- ehaped es poNsible. Mark a face near the top, and tis a band of bright rib- bon or cloth, cravat-itashion, a little below the middle, The pillow should look quite Humpty-Dumptylah by this means. Now set Mr. Humpty upon a chair back or on an 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 Dumpty 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 us you wish, and then tick' up the scores to sae who has won, Easter Eggs High: Divide the child- ren up into companies, and lino the companies up in two raw', 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 as possible. The child at the end of each line, as soon as he receives the egg, must ehout "High!" Of course, in the haste that will re- sult from the race the egg is likely to be smashed in transit. In that case the aide smashing the egg is pen- alized, and everybody must pay a forfeit. In the meantime another egg can be supplied if you wish to make 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 tome character of object in the famous story of "Peter Rabbit," Seat the children in a ring and begin to tell the story. As you use the names of the characters or objects, the children answering to I them must rise and hop three steps rabbit -fashion. When Peter Rabbit's house is mentioned, all the children ex- change places, and 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 baguet, The third con- tinnes by repeating what the first and second children have said, and adds dill a third flower. It will be quite a largo and varie- gated bunch of posies that results. • t Fragrant Bells of Easter. 0 fragrant bells of Easter You softly ring at dawn, In mossy dell and woodlatkn.I, By garden bed and lawn, Where winter's snows have melted The brooks again are free To ripple on in gladness And share your minstrelsy. O chosen Lolls of Easter "Tie yours to bud and bloom To tell the wondrous story Of life from out the tomb, Where war has left its fallouts You lift above the sod Your loving cups, sweet censors That bear the Peace of God, The Flowers 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 eight 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 from the far Fast. Presumably some farevoyaging mariner, whose home was in Bermuda, brought St lraelc with him. When we apeak of the "lilies of the field"—to which Jesus referred, when He declared that they were adorned more beaubifully than Solomon in all his glory—we think of this typo 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 Annmtciatkoit and which its a different variety, known to botantiste as can- didum, is a mistake of art. It appears in ninny of the paintings of Murillo. If Jesus never saw an Easter oily, 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 grow in fields. Much more likely does it seam that Ho meant the calla lily which was colli- vated on a large scale in Egypt end (probably in Palestine) thousands ,of years ago. Th Egyptians grew the calla as a food -plant. it develops, underground, fleshy tubers that; eontewhab eesetnble potatoes, though more elongated in. shepc. With preliminary boiling, they may be 000ked for the table by frying, baiting, or do any other way, that potatoes are cooked. In Egypt, anciently, (and pressing ably in tine Levant), calla tubers aro one of the most important food crops, They were grow, n .over extensive areas in each annual season of the Mee: overflow. At 'the time of their blos- soming the fields of them must )rave presented to the eye a beautiful pic- ture. lieakdzing which fact, we may reasonably suppose that the calla was inn Christ's mind when Ho spoke oa the "lilies of the field," • The hintChrist. He came and walked on the hillside after the night had gone, But the radiance of His forehead was not the look of the dawn, For the day had hardly broken, and the mists were still undrawn, He stood in the old dim garden beside Jerusalem, And it was not the light of the lilies that gleamed on His garment's hem, For the clew and the cold and the shadow were heavy still on them. This was the light around Him and the glory about His head; "Because I 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, surely our hearts would how 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 I live, so also my own shall live," He saith. INTERNATIONAL LESSDN, APRIL 4. Israel Ruled by Judges—Judges 2: 6-23; Golden Text -2. Chron. 15: 4. 1. Now when Joshua. Tho book of Judges takes up the story of the Is- raelite people to 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- s , ship. From this we Iearn "that the VS/111.01.18 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 - titular, the large oities of Canaan, as well is the fertile vailteys and the mar- itime plain, remained do the possession of the Canaailites" (Peake's Com.). The conquest was by no means com- plete when Joshua finished his great hack, but ho had left the 'Israelite people strongly established, both east and west of Jordan. Their courage, their constaney, their steadfastness of purpose, their sense of unity, and their faith nn the God who had led them out of Egypt, were to he put to the test again in the years that followed, but the heroic spirit of Jos)tua remained with them and outer 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 goodas their parents but when bhat happens it la 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 II'is wrath, The writer, or rather the edntier, of the stories of the Judgos, supplies us here with his comments upon the history. He interprets the calamities which came upon the people as ttbe re- sult of their evil doing, and as a divinely ordained discipline intended to lead then to repentance. The ref- erence in v. 15 as the Lord had spoken, eta., is to the warnings con- tained in Haut. 28. Indeed, the entire passage which we study bo -day beans the mark of having' been written by one who was perfectly familiar with the book of Deuterronomy, • 16-18. The Lord raised up Judges. The order of events, as the waiter sees them, (1) sln, in forsaking the Lord; (2) defeat and oppression at the hands of their enemies; (3) distress and repentance, and (4) the raising up of a deliverer. And :hie he sees re- peated over and over again. He seem and sees truly, that the hand of ('CoQ is ever present, working mightily, not compelling men to do His will, but overruldng even their misdeeds, and graciously providing a way of escape front all the calamities which they bring upon themselves. That by then? 1 may prove Israel. Out of Israel"s• own failures the Lord will provide a testing and a diselpline, The presence of these enemies whom Israel hag tailed to subdue or to drive out twill• furnish proof of fidelity, God's laws are so ordained that the To put this' in terms of our modern life and modern ways of thinking, temptations which beset us, and which often arise out of our own doSeionoies and orrotvl and failures, may become a means to our betterment. A ,'i emory2 Easter, 1920. There wets no thorns upon his brow, No long steep way bo Calvary: Yet Christ he gave the sans es Thee, His life for all lumen ty. There wits no cross against the slcy, Not one Watt he of 'lrielty; Yet (.hriut he lives the same as Theo For man's mad high divinity, 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 done that Joseph of Arimathea placed at the door of the sepulchre is not only 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 Him from desecration; a starve that is a great agglomerate boulder of pity and remorse and apology and excuses; part of a great historical event hut the claims of family, the demands of also an everlasting symbol. I business, the irresistible pressure of In the heart of every one of us is circumstances. a sepulchre in which lies the body of a crucified Christ, and at the door is a stone. 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The distributing of the .pace or parch egg, which' was once observed by the entire Christian world, is now universally -confined to the children, In England the folies of Lancashire, and in come parts of Scotland the young folk, still have their clyed hard-boiled eggs, which they either roll or throw at one an- other and finally end up by eating the eggs. In many of the counties and shires various ancient customs prevail, such as the matt folk lift the womea folk on Easter Monday and then the women retaliate on Tuesday. In Dun. ham the men remove the women's shoos on Easter Monday, and then the women do the same on the following day. At Easte:time the churchmen and the laity arrange a ball gams the winners being regaled with tansy cake and tarry pudding; while in the other counties the town clerk carries it basket containing Easter cakes ,as an offering, and in return he rvreives a gratuity wont the earl. ous householders. France first, turned her artietie and culinary talents to making the Easter or paseh confectionery; this arose from the fact that eggs were at this •season very scarce and yet itt great demand. These egga were first matte from funtiart and then, casted with chocolate or various colored fondant:). There were some made to he kepi as mementoes, and these had cry:teeized surfaces and a view of a landscape arranged itteide, These eggs were prepared from foundations of piaster parts aid its substitutes, and various decorations were used to ornament the finished product. April Fool. Little Miss Fro'- n, break into a .anile, Show your dimples, and let us ere The glint of heaver( in two bright eyes Where the glint of liea•ree sdtanid always be. Beam and dimple. Oh, follow this rete, For that is the way to April foul. LiitZ•a Mir4 Quarrel, ',o sweet and brave, Drive angry feolinge away, away; Refuse to utter one eharp -retort, Speak gentle things on this April day, lie kind and gracious. Oh, follow this rule, i"or that is the way to April feel. Lb e Mee Lazy, Mee with the lark, Study your lessons and know thein well; Run down tee road to lits viiLs,rs school; RI:r, tato salmnl when Von tar tlrr I, 41 Be quick anti eager. Ole follow met rule, For that is ti?e wing r:. Ap'ii root. lilbie Miss "deedless, tie your shoe; Gather y;.ur playthings in :teat array; Pick up the scissors and sweep the room; Bind your leeks with a ribbon gay. Think and remember.. Oh, fellow. this rule, Fut' that is the way to April fool. Coloring Easter Eggs. Many mothers (Meet, to the usr of dyee in coloring Earle: eggs that the small children use. Yet they aro most anxious that their wee folk have variety of Easter goodies. Have you ever tried the home veg- etable dyes? Eggs may be dyed a lovely shade of yellow by cooking the egge 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 color from the sdtade of delicate pink to a deep red, Names, dates and mottoes may be readily written ou the eggs by using a small brush and liquid fat, Write thio on before dyeing. The surface of tho egg must be absolutely clean and the tvrit'ing should be tet 'about one hour before cooking the eggs. It will take but a little practice to provide a large variety of these eggs, Tito eggs may be made from sponge cake, dipped in either fondant tee water icing, and then decorated with emelt flowers or a name or greeting written with icing. Bohemian Easter Ridiing. In various parts of Bohemia, now the principal State of the new Czeebu'• Slovak RepublIo, a curious old custom prevails, that of "Easter tiding." On eadt Easter day; at 4 o'oloek dm the morning tiro riders. assemble, dres- eed tit bleak and carrying drosses, flags and other emblems, Front Schonwald they proceed on a three hours' ride to ICuln where they attend service. The priest, after a sot1tiora wherein ho refers to the horse as a' symbol of power, bestows his boner diction on the animals and their rid- ers, This done, he elders vislt the neighboring oodles, where they ree. calve hospitality, subsequently making their way homeward, wetted by a band and et large crowd, The origin of this curious cust'nm, is lost in the mists of auttiqulty, • It Rooms to roe that lilasteeth-no la abetttr time to make resnleltions titan New Year's,' All the world stens to be turning "vet a new leaf mid elartng out :Meth 1 al ti; do it, tnnl