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Prices $1.00 to $2.00 Po rt on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the 21st of March. * This year the full moon 1s to be on Favorite ; Talcs Made of the highest quality talc money can buy--milled to infinite smoothness, and then perfumed with the genuine CORSON" perfumes. ) , Ideal Orchid O/'SO/ S Pomander you by askin Ask your Druggist Made by' SOVEREIGN PERFUMES LIMITED, TORONTO FOR SALE BY ORVAL BYER ik dd AND OPTICIAN. EASTER By Mas. 8: ROBERTSON, AS READ "BEFORE THE SHIRLEY-CARTWRIGHT © Women's INSTITUTE. * What is' Easter? It is the festival 'commemoration of the r resur- emory of the crucifixion ; 1 the dey before Easter. solemn It is nar - Ll = comes from the 22nd. If it were to be a couple of days earlier, on the 20th, our Easter would not be till about the 20th of April. It was because of a difference of opinions between the Eastern and the Western church that the Western people kept Xmas, because the Eastern people kept Easter. When we Protes- tants from the West began keeping Easter, it secmed a little like being friends with the East again. That is one lesson of Easter, reconciliation. Christ died and rose again that the world might be reconciled to God. It lends interest to Easter to recall the circumstances preceding it. We will never grow tired of the touching story of the meek triumph of Christ as he rode into Jerusalem while all the people honored him by spreading their garments in the way and crying "Hosanna to the Son of David, bles- sed is he that cometh in-the name of the Lord." He entered Jerusalem, not as a conquering monarch, but as the King who rules by love, the truest sovereignty the world can ever know. How mean and, sordid are all thé pomp and splendor of Rome's proud conquerors compared with the spiritual triumph of the lowly Christ. Our Lord was resurrected. Why should it be thought an 'unreasonable thing that God should raise the dead? Things all around us suggest a resur- rection. All the flowers grow out of the earth, the butterfly comes from the despised caterpillar. The insects and worms have not taken any food since last fall. 'They lie insensible, but will soon be resurrected and the earth will be full of them. God can do as much for our bodies as he does for the wasps and worms. The day seems to be resurrected out of the night. Ina few weeks there will be a resurrection in all our gardens. Why not some day a resurrection in all the graves? {If we belong to Christ he must rise in cour hearts and reign there, as he rose out of thé grave to reign in heaven. The reason we have a display of flowers at Easter is that its a beautiful {way of showing our belief in the resut- of our Lord and our hope in the life. We should not let in vain. ; Perry as emblems of Easter, At the time when Joseph was a slave in Egypt, the Egyptians worshipped the Creator whom they called the "Opener. " They taught that the whole universe was first created in the form of an immense egg, till-at the word of God it opened and life began--earth and heaven stars and space came forth into the being. So to the Egyptian the egg was the symbol of creation. They thought the resurrection was as ores ful as the creation, so they took the egg as a symbol of the resurrection also. What of the rabbits? Our first forefathers, the Saxons, once lived in Central Europe. In their pottery the hare meant the earth. The hare is in general respects similar to the rabbit. In the early spring the hare would peep out and hide again until the arrival of summer. So the hare rab- bit meant spring in Europe and the egg meant the resurrection--then 'twas easy, when the Saxons became Chris~ tians, to put them together just 'as they made up Santa Claus and Christ- mas- stockings. Easter was observed by early Christmas as a continuation of the, Feast of the Passover and generally lasted eight days, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. It was a time of joy, alms were given to the poor and needy, sports and dances were indulg- ed, preachers told such stories and legends as would make the people laugh. On Easter day the people saluted each other with a kiss and ex- claimed "He is risen," to the reply was '"'He is risen, indeed." Easter Saturday in Germany is one of the gala days of the children. The oges are dyed for the afternoon games. he children, with possibly half a dozen eggs apiece, collect in some old grass field where the moss forms a cushion for the eggs. They spend a very pleasant time tossing the eggs and enjoy it immensely when several of them are broken. They #lso have a very pretty custom of secretly mak- ing a nest to fill with bright Easter eggs, then hiding it somewhere in the barn or garden, and sending the children out on Easter morning to look for the eggs the hare has laid for them. / The Scotch children are aught by 3 3 their nurses to crush the egg after 'eating its contents, or push. the / Continued on Page 4