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Is *< toe toTM day ot .’ !*• 'OcoffUai o' -torus* ut (toe »«fr> ut foot i rrtc o ■ A-* 11> riiM , om *- -«t jr.aiarr ri a •toxiCti -be tawarra'-aito. by *•' * *»«a* <rf astur*. toe to s®r®, n ua£< a too o utoar - > - UM eo*. t* aftoot at!! og o* la alt ttor •*«*0 rf *tae te*M crea •toto ®t rrftttaua aoa •■•ratoatotoena btor niay be tetotfite* -o atotv«r ta tto* *** tj*er pride in her new nnerj emu mmmtt} be rupon to help her combat the •ry * M> ' *•*'» ernes,- »as started «m.f years ago to ii.fiii< ■ a, m a. ■:. o! the lulled Stales to unite •a robi.1^4 tft-ter t> .adaj" of its Hictiittois e as ft ®e«l ila> for the new fashion. According t« 'tw m» mandate it was not to be consid ered nod farm’ tat a woman to ap;>ear on Kaster re«p:*ades’. In fresh addition, to her ward? She nilgh: display her ne» treas are- —1 • r. f wha' .»«• aouid nice clotBes be teas ■-•man W tie could not show th-tn—on tfte Auiday pre-wdtug fca»:er or on the Sunday foovfe . x fcj. ter or nt any other time, but the «iftcoi sas to le- dei ri*d of turning toaster in to a g-.i.d r« i lew tor marshal::.g the neaest iciditra of the dressmaker*. the bootmakers The new |daa was all *erv we!! In theory bu -he jw. sobs u ho suggested It erldeutly did l.-.t ng-'e os *a. ;»-r» latency with anich the dat-ghters at the republic < an cling to a • her fehrd prerogative The American women smi le* Jerl oed to a.andos Ihelr Kaster fashion parade and ctMissquecfly the season s surprises I* new mimes' continue to be ns lndespenr?ble adjuncts to a recitation haste: observance as mra 'he Easter titles and the Kaster egg* The • "edit * -r the i/'ercr rat loti of tne traditions o' the Faster fashion parade Is gl‘ »n to the women because It .s the members t/t the fair sri she both as ipe*-tator» and participants •re the mast s - uerou. and most emnusla.Mc •upporters of the lanctluft At the same time V would be 111* to Insinuate that many of the •appo.lt* fees hare bo* succumbed o the ln3u *ac* at ta• Raster dress parade Among tne ■sai* contingent there la a brave represents tlftB jf aprrng overcoats and r p. nr suits, that mo 'heir appearance for the first tin e, but the ma preeminent touch which pric'snni the or melee Is the array of new collars and ties. Kora* met. there may be. a bo because of prejudice or per Set book trill not tndu.ge them seises ta the new conceit* of the tailors on Raster, bat there are nose a ho need forego the H-de*;.ea sable <d a aore|ty in aock« ear. As 6as been said, fashion . parade on Kaster mtsrLat up and down the entire land There •re nai famous Raster fashion parades in the railed Mates, notably the one on Fifth ave •ue N«w York and the oae on the Boardwalk at Atlantic fits but there la scarce a city or town or ilitage from Maine to California or (real Mirhigaa to Tessa that does not enjoy Its •*» funster panorama—particularly If the rom aiuaT: Is Scot so small 'bat there are no church aerrlres ta act a* an Incentive to draw forth the Urd* at pi.usage And just here, it may be ne ed b. BOtder. tint such la the jerfectioc al our mnder* listen of fashion distribution that the Kaster parade la the most remote •»wi affords proof that her feminine residents are nt! V b*i tad New Torh and even Pans in tbe auaia essentials of the "new styles ~ While oh this phaae at tbs subject It may be remarked that very few of the fashionable parwders la ta# Faster throngs realize how far making has# been the preparations for this JtfmQVI'SZ C02tZ8Z&Ifl££Z.I7jBZJBZr 3AOTfl^fl-2f jSND HSZr<SZZ72&^> >nr 'wm. AT?VK7&Y G&VE7&U. AMZ> vr7CKS&5Ji/L?r display and bow far back. In point of time, have extended the preliminaries for the burst of glory. Milady may not even realize that the milliners who did" her hat have been »orkin« literally night and day for a fortnight t efore Easter and that the delivery boy who s'ributed the "confections" of lace and rlb ons. had precious little sleep on Easter eve. Hut the rail of preparation goes yet farther back It extends as far as fascinating Paris, wher» all the styles originate and where the ammunition for the Easter broadside was a matter of concern to hundreds of designers and r -hundresses and bonnet makers and liower workers in the days when you and 1 were busy with Christmas preparations. There is usually at l«*a*t three or four months between the In MB.AKDJifcS. nrTEfSAS. ception of a costume idea in Paris and the realization of the ' dream" in America and con sequently American dressmakers and milliners were paying hundreds of dollars for advance information regarding the Easter 6tyles and furtive peeps at the new Easter hats ere the prospective wearers in America had com menced to bother their heads on the subject. The traditional hour for the Easter fashion parade is after the morning church service and this time continues the accepted interval in most communities. It Is, for Instance, in the interim from twelve to one o'clock that one sees the impressive procession of gorgeously gowned women and correctly-attired men — The Risen Christ’s Easter Message The message of Easter is Identical with tha truth that each Ixtrd's day proclaims to men •y- res : rection of Jesus Christ. The central though? of the apostle's ministry was the resurrection of their Lord and Saviour. It has been the dominant theme of every gospel mes sage. The risen Christ's first communication was 6ent to his discouraged disciples that they might rejoice because he was risen from the dead Does Easter find you discouraged? Have you made a bad investment of your life and labor? Are yon disturbed as to the future? Has death terror for you? Then let us rejoice, for Christ has won a victory for us. Let us give thanks because he is risen. His resurrec tion contains the promise of our endless life. It Is also prophetic of the Christian's resurrec tion when Jesus shall come again. The hopes of eternal life should inspire us with a dynamic force by which we can. through the presence and power of our risen Lord, rise above the difficulties. discouragements and defeats of this present age. His resurrection has solved our problem, removed sin and burdens that have filled us with despair, and turned our apparent defeats into one glorious triumph. The gospel of the resurrection proclaims a victory of re generation over degeneration, of construction over deformation, of life over death, that Christ has secured for every creature that will believe on him as their risen Saviour. To the disciple that denied him early on Easter morn Christ sent a message that re called Peter to his service. Have you been following Christ afar off? Has your life been marred by sin? Have you denied your Lord? If so. Easter has a message for you. Repent, return to your Lord and then you will rejoice that he Is risen and he will restore unto you the Joy of your salvation. The last message that the Master gave to his disciples was delivered near Bethany, whlls they were still In sight of the capital city of Ti i iw»>m On this Easter morn from Beth any's study overlooking the Capital city of our nation I would call upon all the followers of the Christ to obey him and entdr Into the Master's work of winning the world for their Lord. As he commanded, so I would urge that you obey his call to evangelize the world with the gospel, enlist disciples for his service end educate all believers to be obedient to whatso ever our Lord has commanded. The Christian conquests of the centuries, the marvelous mis sionary awakening of Christendom preparing to conquer the world for the glory of Christ by the consecration of men and means and by the co-operation of the Christian forces under the leadership of the Holy Spirit Is one of the many modern testimonies of the power of the risen Lord that is leading the hosts of Qod on to complete the triumph of Christ when he re vealed on resurrection morn bis power over life and death. The religion of Jesus contains the only hope for the world. Hla Is the only religion that meeta the needs of all men. He is the only founder tt a religion that has risen from the dead and offers everlasting life to all. Let us consecrate ourselves arouDd his empty tomb this Easter morn to help him save the world by carrying the gospel of his resurrection to all that are lost.—Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson. Man With Only Half a Brain There is a man with only half a brain in the convalescent home of the Sabbatberg sanitarium at Stockholm, Sweden. His name is Blomquiat, and he is a young soldier who was hit by a stray bul let at firing practice lost summer. The bullet went through the left temple and passed out again through the right side of the skull. It was a bad case, but the surgeons, finding that no motor centers of the brain were injured, proceeded to operate although they had little " nicu renders tilth avenue. New York, memor able on this occasion. So to in most of tha smaller cities the church hour is accounted the logical time for fashion's review because there is nothing to call forth the population en masse at any other time in the day—unless it be, mayhap, to evening church service when, of course. It is too dark to have fanciful toil ettes appear to the best advantage. In some of our cities, however, notably 19 the natlona! capital, it has come about that in recent years there are in effect two fashion parades on Easter. The first is held, as above mentioned, at the conclusion of the morning church service, but the newer and more popu lar promenade comes late in the afternoon, when well dressed people of all ages traverse the principal residential thoroughfares inspired their fellow-beings and their raiment. The morn ing fashion parade finds almost everybody afoot If the weather be at all pleasant, but in the ■moving picture" that is cn view from 3:30 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon a considerable propor tion of the paraders are in vehicles, open car riages and motor cars having the preference. Each mode of locomotion has its advantages from the standpoint of the Easter paraders. Those afoot have the best chance to be seen, where as those in motors or carriages have the best opportunities to see, and since the aim and object of this fashion parade is that Its devotees may see and be seen it will be realized that It Is virtually a standoff between those who walk and those who ride. In point of numbers participating, easily the greatest Easter tashlon parade in America is that which takes place on this eventful day on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City. People flock from all sections of the country to the New Jes sey resort. They come, many of them will tell you. because Atlantic City is supposed to have a mild and equable spring climate, but the real reason in most Instances is a realization that the "natural study of mankind is man" and that here may be found a greater assemblage of representatives of the human race than at any other Easter mecca on this side of the At lantic. There are sometimes as many as 100,000 people In the Easter parade at Atlantic City and they devote themselves to marching and countermarching on that five-mile elevated esplanade because/-there Is little else to do at Atlantic City at Easter when it is, of course, too cold for sea bathing. The Atlantic City parade of fashion starts In the morning, though It Is not timed to accord with church services, for the simple reason that only a small proportion of the Easter vis itors to Atlantic City take time to attend di vine worship on this day of days. Instead they spend their time on the great wooden high way—walking or riding In those odd and lazy wheelod chairs pushed by porters or propelled by tricycles. At Atlantic City also there is an other fashion parade in the afternoon, though to be strictly accurate we should not say “an other.” In reality it is a continuation of the same grand march of the gaudy dressers. How any of them manage to get lunch Is a mystery, for the crowd on the Boardwalk never suffers any diminution from mid-morn to dusk, and in deed this spectacular continuous performance even goes on after the electric bulbs are aglow and Easter promenaders in other cities have long since sought their own firesides. hope of saving the man's life. For two weeks the patient was unconscious, his breathing was feeWe and he had to be artificially fed. Then by degrees consciousness returned. His speech and eyesight were badly affected, but both im proved gradually. Today, apart from some what dimmed eyesight and general weakness, he is well on the road to recovery, but retains one conspicuous defect, he cannot read or write. He can distinguish letters, but is unable to connect them into words. The part of the brain he has lost, it appears, is the sense of memory of what he learned In bis youth. Party Feeling. The Excited Spinster—Oh, Ethel, we’re going to have such a time at the party. The new curate’s coming, and he’s color blind! Ethel—Well, dear, what difference does that make? The Excited Spinster—Why, he thinks all tho hollyberries are mistletoe.—London Sketch. ALWAYS THE LURE OF WEALTH R*cortf« know CttiMm and W»f» Expert at Money »rw: diaccierrlaa of the wonder* of Hahptowfna civilisation, re-enforced by Ih* (rwtta of earlier explorations, show *f JMa M m old a* history A* far 1 Babylonians had made such progress In commercial aptitude that special ' Saws had to be framed to deal with those men who tried abort cuts to wealth, says the Accountant. The ! young man with expectations realised in those days with less regard to the sacredness of the person and the right to lire, borrowed, as his modern pro totype not Infrequently does today, from the professional money lender. The Babylonian merchant banked regularly and issued his brick “checks” and bills of exchange, and the law stepped in, even as It does today, to preserve Inviolate the rights of prop erty. So keen were the business in stincts of the people that even the priests were not above a deal in offer ings and in real estate. Indeed a great part of the commerce of Babylonia was concentrated in the temples. The vast quantities of metala, cere als and other commodities which either as gifts to the temples or offer ings to the gods poured In dally were sold by the priests, who did not neg lect to get their full margin of profit. Business ability indeed seems to have been an Important qualification for admission to the priesthood. Careful accounts of revenue and expenditure were kept, and these show that invest ments in loans and the purchases of land and other profitable dealings were a regular part of the fiscal ac tivities of the priestly establishments. Perhaps the most Interesting of all the burled reoords which have come to light are the contract tablets kept by a firm of bankers and money lend ers known as "the sons of Eglbl," es tablished at Babylon before the time of Sennacherib, probably as early as 1,000 B. C., and which existed for sev eral centuries. These "brick books," as they have been called, constitute the chief source of our knowledge of life in ancient Babylon. The firm of Egibl possessed enor mous wealth and influence and have been designated the "Rothschilds of the ancient world." The Nurse’s Story * * * By TEMPLE BAILEY (Copyright, X912, by Associated Literary Press.) \Yl.en I went to take charge of Sirs, t | Darnell's case, 1 was tired and half j i sick. I had been up tor nights with a j I pneumonia patient. 1 tried to beg! j off, when L)r. Hearn telephoned that1 he wanted me, but he was insistent. | “No one else will do,'1 he said. “I j j need some one who has imagination." | I saw his reasons for wanting me j ( as soon as I came into the big room j | and looked at the little woman lying j , among the pillows. The bed was so big and she was so t ! tiny that she was almost lost in all i [ the whiteness. There were pink silk ! curtains coming down from the ma hogany canopy, but even these gave no color to the thin face with the big eyes. “He doesn't love me any more,” was the statement made by the pale lips, as I bent over her. • “Oh, I'm very sure he does,” I said soothingly, “but he can’t tell you.” "Can’t he?” she asked eagerly. "How do you know?” “The fairies told me,” I said, "now 1 you go to sleep and don't think any | more about it.” I saw at once that she was like a child, and so I talked more about i fairies, and how they always made! everything come out right, and at last ! I saw her eyes close, and when Dr. i Hearn came she was asleep. “How did you do it?” he demanded. "She needed comfortipg.” 1 said. "Is it her husband?” The doctor nodded. "1 can't make i it out. He seems to be perfectly de voted. but she says that he’s hiding something from her. And she isn't very strong. She is in a neurasthenic condition, and I thought your whole I someness was what she needed. I That's why I got you here.” I saw the husband that night. He was tall and dark and strong, and when he bent over my little pale lady and kissed her it seemed as if she r 1^'/ “Oh!” She Cried, "I'm Going to Get Better Right Away." must gain help from his vivid per sonality. But she turned from him. "Please —don't,” she wailed. He drew back and I saw the des peration in his eyes. “What shall 1 do with her, nurse?” was the ques tion those eyes seemed to ask, though his lips did not move. My eyes answered his, and l gave a lHtle nod, which seemed to reassure him. “All right, dearest," he said, “but tomorrow morning I shall come again, and then—you'll let me kiss you?” She looked up at him sharply. “What makes you say that?” she asked. I interposed. “It will be the happy ending of the fairy tale.” She put her bands over her face and began to cry, weakly. “There can never be a happy ending,” she walled. 1 motioned to him to go away, and it took me an hour to get her quiet. I gave her an alcohol rub and a glass of warm milk and put hot water bags around her, and still she shivered and shook, and at last I thought I’d try mental suggestion. So I took both of her hands in mine and said quietly: “Now you are going to sleep.” "How can I sleep,” she cried, “when he loves some one else?” Then I saw what was troubling her and I bent over her and whispered: “He’s under a spell and you must help him to break the charm.” She sat up in bed. "How can J help?” she asked, feverishly. "You must kiss him three times in the morning and ever}'time you must say -I love you.’ ” "And then will he be just the same V she asked, "as he used to be when he wasn't hiding anything from me?' “He will be just the same.” In a little while she was asleep and there was the faintest shadow of a smile on her lips. Then 1 went to look for her hus band and found nim sitting in front of a dying tire in the library. i sat down opposite him and asked abruptly: "What are you keeping lrom her?" For a moment he stared at me, anc then he said, somewhat haughtily, "Why should I tell you?” "Because I am here to help cure your wife, and I cannot cure her unti.' I know the truth.” He gripped the arms of his chaii with tense fingers. "I haven't told a soul,” he said, “but every one will know, presently. I am a ruined man.' "You mean that you have lost youi money?” “Yes.” “Go to her tomorrow morning, anc tell her,” I said. “And kill her? She has nevet known what it was to live without luxury. And when the truth comes out. I shan’t have a cent.” "You have youth and strength,” 1 said. He drew a long breath, as if he squared his shoulders to meet the future. • ixiu j v»u ua« u ivj » c, "But you won’t have love long unless you tell your wife the truth.” The next morning my patient was awake early. “Do you think it will really break the charm If I kiss him three times?” was the first question she asked as I bent over the bed. "Surely. And now while I am comh ing your hair I will tel! you a story.” She had wonderful hair, lair and rippling, like ripe wheat in a field when the wind blows over it. 1 put it up for her in soft puffs and tied a ribbon around it of palest pink, and while I worked I talked. "Once upon a time,” I said, "there was ?. prince who married a lovely princess. Now the princess had al ways lived in a beautiful castle and the prince took her to another castle just as beautiful. And the princess bad everything that heart could wish." “Oh, you mean me,” she breathed, and her eyes were shining; “tell me some more, nurse.” "And one day the prince learned that a wicked wizard had put a charm on him, and that he would have to leave the beautiful castle and go and live in a little, little hut, ’way back in thq woods, and that he would have to work until his hands wTere hard and his back was bent. And so he didn’t dare tell the princess, because he knew if he told her she would want to go, too, and she would have to wear shabby clothes, and sweep the little hut, and prepare the plain food, and perhaps her lovely hands would get hard and her slender shoulders would also bend with the burdens. So the prince kept silent about the spell that was to come upon him, and the princess grew jealouB, and said to her self, ‘He doesn’t love me any more.’ ” She clapped her hands. “Just as 1 said It.” “Yes. And she wondered If the prince loved any one else, and she wondered and wondered until she fell sick, and—and the prince, looking at her, thought his heart would break, but still he didn’t dare to tell her about the hut In the forest.” I had finished tying the pink rib bons and she reached up and caught my hands in hers. “Nurse, nurse,” she gasped, "was that all—oh, was that all—that he had Just lest his old money ?” And when I told her the truth she cried in my arms. Then she sat up and made me put on her prettiest pink komono, and she walked weakly from the bed to a big chair In the window. And when he came In she held out her hand to him. "Oh,” she cried, “I'm going to get strong right away—and then we'll go and live in the hut In the forest." He looked at her with puzzled eyes, until I said: "I told her a fairy tale about the prince who had to take the princess away from the beautiful castle.” His arms were about her and I heard her say as I went out of the room, "You must kiss me three times—” And that night, Dr. Hearn said In a satisfied way, "We shan’t need you much longer here, nurse. I told you it needed a woman with imagination to take this case.” DRIVEN TO THE TELEPHONE - #-*£ Seemed the Only Way Woman Could Impart Information to Her Busy Husband. A piece of news too important to wait till night, and too interesting to be committed to the telephone reach ed the woman about 1 o’clock, so she traveled live miles to her husband's office to relate it in person. She drew a chair up close to his desk and be gan: "I came to tell you—” "Whr-rr-rr,” cut in the telephone on his desk. The talked Into the receiver for about five minutes, then made a few notes, after which his wife re sumed: •*I came to tell you that—" “Walt a minute,” be said. “There goes that confounded wire again.” It went that time and it went again and again, only punctuatetd between <t!i. by the woman’s ineffectual, “I Tame to tell you.” Finally she got up in despair. “I think I had better wait till night to tell you,” she said. "Yes.” he said, "perhaps you had. I seem pretty busy now.” Outside the office the urgency of her message overpowered all other considerations. Profiting by her re cent experience she sought the near est drug store and telephoned her news. He listened in exclamatory as tonishment. “And you waited to telephone me that? ’ he said. “Why on earth didn’t you tell me when you were here’” “Oh,” said she, "I had a reason.” Iceland Education. Icelanders are now famous for their high standard of education. Every child of ten In this remote little land can read and write, neither abject pov erty nor excessive wealth Is seen, and crime Is rare; and the latest step in the evolution of this remarkable peo ple is the founding of a university at the capital.
