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-J- J fk.n 5 -X WS. .i , v ejsjjeaVBasjJskfc-- ftt ft V- ,V V Jg"V. ' II sT "W. . ., W. s . . V " " Easter Lily Flowers Through the Year, but is Popular Only for a Day I TTERHAPS it is because a new genera-Z- . o the manner born, has grown up since the Easter lily came into its queenly sway; perhaps it is because the tradi tional joyousness of, the day lends itself more gractously tojhe whim of fashion than do other occasions of the year; perhaps it is sim fly that spring the perennial, delightful, ir- v r-s-"' , ' nave Compelled SOme exaltation Of the flOW- tTS; but the fact is apparent that Eastertide :J." . t f brings with its festival bloom no tinge of sad ness, no sense of unfitness. A whole nation responds to the quicken- ne. -e , r .. . i V,t t L. l; i 7,,7 ' tninwuukj beautiful resurrection Of the flowers the vhen received, but a surprisingly large number are in trnrttt mm, r.,.U1 t L L..: flt condition for use on Easter Sunday. They are pur SWeeieSt, mast fit Symbol Of the resurrection chased principally for the decoration of churches. tf the Saviour tuhnsr emer verier frrvm. th v tac oayiour, vmose emergence from ine tomtf typified the new birth of the human 50. The story of the immaculate lily and of i. . ''. r . sis sister blooms is the story of one remarkable change ' that has become noteworthy in our na tional life, a life so varied, so heterogeneous, that, even at this day, the soothsayers and the prophets are at one only in the positiveness of their: auguries these, that we shall emerge into a racial homogeneity as marked as that of the ancient Jew, those that we shall diffuse to ' cosmopolitanism more omnipresent than that vf the ancient Roman. ,It all underlies the Easter buds and flow ers'the gay, sweet fancies of the present, the profound, momentous mystery of the ages to , come. "'f A thought of Love Immortal blends ' t With dear remembrance of friends. - And In 'hem eauh-born flowers, ' With Eden's lingering- fragrance sweet, , ; ' , ' The heavenly and the human mtet, ..' v The heart of Christ and ours. Whittler. '''"'h '''"'V. ''".ft )'Vf 1 '''wi, '" SOME ten years have elapsed since, in the estimation of an American town or city, the wearing or car rying of a sprig of boxwood or a spray of palm 'ceased to stamp one as a devout pietist or as the votary of foreign superstition. - That was about the time when the churches them selves oh Palm Sunday strained their resources a little to frive the faithful- real palm Instead of the cheaper and more humble box.. One church after another made the palm spray the vehicle tor bringing home the story of man's ready fickleness toward his God. Palm Sunday, within a few years, has been changed In the popular esteem to a considerable extent from its proper place id the penitential season to the occasion for a floral festival, when house windows green with palms s though In rejoicing, and a city thoroughfare seems more truly like the Jubilant, deceptive way than any since the palms waved and drooped in the unstable homage of nineteen centuries ago. - It la good to come hastily n to Easter, when there is no afterthought of chagrin to mar the perfect fitness of the festival. '.;" r.i . - " . ? Man's Saviour has arisen; ' man should, indeed, re joice. The very flower, the Uly. -which typules the splen dor and the promise of the Resurrection, is wholly ad mirable In the fidelity with which the history of lu bloom depict : the life eternal preserved within the oruy a ecore or - years nave paea wiuiani Harris,, a Philadelphia florist, received from some friends la Bermuda aatnplea ot tne Bermuaa my, wnose wnite and UauUtul blooms were a delight to his astonished He rut thein forward 1ft his native city as an Easter rfar. Their popularity was instant. Churches in gen frl. which etlll looked at Palm- Sunday decorations as ift et-a-jrltual ta.waich they might sot accede, found , ,i : .t'n . i .: vi. r. V.,-i:y... t V V " i - a Vl-r- v; i t - iTXZJf I at Eastertlme an outlet for the human craving for beauty which the were glad to welcome. The tall, white flower year by year won Its way from city to city, so that It became known by the name of Its American patron, as llllum Harris 1 1. Everywhere it was In demand, and Bermuda began to reap huge harvests of Uly bulbs. While most of the Bermuda Ullea are brought here In the form of bulbs, a large Import trade In the bloom emelve ha. grown up within the last few year. In one ehlpment which arrived In New York the other day were something like 10,000 boxes of the beautiful white blossoms. These blooms are cut In Bermuda at the latest pOBl- we date, and are packed In boxes for shipment A large percentage cannot survive the trip and are worthless A fIly or tne nrBt class toaay, uxe cnicago, Boston or Philadelphia, will receive from 200,000 to a quarter of and, from a million bulbs durlntr the months of July and AumisL They come from their native island packed in pure shore zuo buiba to the package, eacn bulb measuring from seven to nine Inches in circumference. The ports WHY CUFIDMST A LAS, poor Cupid! With wmgs clipped, thistle seeds bowh in his rosy way, and all sorts of obstacles placed before him. what will tTiA fair god do ? Never, perhaps, has he had to face such dif ficulties at one time as he must confront today. Church and state have come to the conclusion that he has been having a too easy time; the re sult, they 6ay, has been too many divorces and untold cases of marital unhappiness. Cupid went, shooting his arrows indiscriminately, rejoicing on his way, while the stricken mortals, without tak ing tiruo for consideration, leaped before they looked into matrimony. Today the new laws of the Catholic Church concerning marriage go into effect. In New York additional bars have been put up this year, and in other places discouragements are placed in the way of a too hasty flight to the altar. M OST important of the new regulations con cerning marriage is the decree Issued by the Catholic Church, with the authority of Pope Plus X. which arnes lntn Affect today. The new requirements are of Interest to both Catholics and non Catholics because of frequent unions between persons of different creeds. Affecting the arrangements of marriage In all parts of the world, they are of particular Importance to the United States. Here the "divorce evil" has reached a crucial point, in the opinion of all church men. Besides this, the new regulations settle decisive ly many questions which have occasioned complica tions. . . - ' - . '' v - . . ' Heretofore the marriage regulations promulgated by the Council of Trent have been mandatory only in certain sections of the country. -Thus the decrees were obligatory In the portions of the country covered by the Louisiana purchase and lands ceded the United States by Spain and Mexico. - So rules in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia and other places were different Most salient of the features of the new marriage regulations is the demand that all engagements must be made in writing, and the stand of the church in not recognising as valid the marriage of any Catholio ' who has not gone through the matrimonial ceremony ; ; before a duly accredited priest and two witnesses. . Heretofore this requirement was not necessary In the ITnt JkA Ctae k J . VtUhwa swwfsjfccsr. .. 1.' . -?' THE OREGON . SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY of entry are chleSy New York ana Philadelphia, where, on arrival, the usual price is about S83 a thousand. A florist in a large way of business will take from 10,000 to 15,000 bulbs. He plants them at once, their state ly, magnificent life interred like the body containing some hidden loveliness of the soul; and, like the grave into which humanity must descend; theirs is cold and dismal. The temperature must be kept where the root growth only will start, and It is not until the chill of October that they are taken to the greenhouse, where a warmth no higher than 65 or 60 degrees la allowed them. MUST FLOWER BY EASTER Within a few weeks of Easter the plants are per mitted to hasten to their bloom, and, if they appear to be at all backward,' 70 or 75 degrees of heat are given them in order that they shall be in their full loveliness by the destined day.' It takes a month to bring the Easter lily to its bloom, and it takes no more than three weeks to exhaust the pure splendor which has been the outgrowth of all those months of care and preparation. Its destruction Is coeval Undoubtedly rash marriages result In many di vorces or cases of "lifetime misery" evils for which sociologists and churchmen .have discussed remedies In vain. Each year shows an increased number of di vorces in the united States. - Tn England one court has the power to grant di vorces; in this country there are 2921. In Germany the courts authorised to dissolve marriage number twenty-eight; in France, seventy-nine. The new decrees of the Catholio Church, it Is de clared, are . issued because the. church regards mar riage as a sacrament, and that its sanctity and va lidity should be safeguarded. EVILS OF HASTY MARRIAGE Much evil, the church believes, comes from im pulsive engagements and hasty marriages. So, after today, Catholics wishing to marry must enter into a formal written engagement signed before a bishop or pastor of the parish, or before two witnesses. Un less duly attested the church will regard these con tracts as null and voidV .. ? " '' . . . Think of the privileges of the past: A bench, moon light sifting through trees, the -odor of blossoms in -the air. A couple holdlnf hands pretty tight- His arms encircle her waist; she sighs and lets her head rest ova his shoulder. Cupid le nearby with down and arrow. He fixes to dart ara ws me sinns. , w mxii 3 SLOWER HORNING, APRIL .19, 1903 terSef fa with its triumph. Neither now, nor at any time later except for soma few smaller flowers which growers have recently put out for Christmas shall the queenly Illy reappear until next Easter lets its sisters bloom again. "What's in a name?" was never answered so em phatically as by the Easter Illy, for the nam by which it is popularly Identified, has doomed to the apotheosis of a single day a flower which nature Intended for many months of the year. Its very popularity for Easter dooms it for the rest of the year. More ' than that, the rage which demanded Easter lilies Innumerable for churches, for entertainments, for homes has made man's greed slay man's latest, most beautiful handmaids of tha eye. The Bermuda lily bulb ordinarily affords from Are to . , , . seven flowers, although some exceptional plants, meas urlng from nine to eleven inches in the bulb, and costing then as high as $25" a hundred, provide as many as a dosen flowers. The selling price Is 20 cents a flower. The profit of the florist la a rich one; and the profit of the Bennudans since their native bulb became the Easter fashion has been proportionate. The Bermudans, like those others In the fable, craved - T0-M3T Two pairs of Hps meet "Toil will be miner be asks. "Tes," she murmurs, as if dreaming. Now.lt must be done this Way: We. the nnderslnd. being of sound mind and pos- ulng sufficient knowladgs of the obligations to be as sumed, do hereby, freely and unsolicited, mutually prom of ntr into holy matrimony before the day In testimony whereof we affix our signatures on thla the day of . JAMES M, SMITH, of - . MARY R. KINO, of . Witnesses: Richard M. Phillips. James M. Bnrna Not nearly so romantic no! But, declare the wise, not nearly so much repenting; at leisure afterward and fewer cases of breach of promise. ' According to the regulations, a bishop outside his diocese or a priest outside the limits of his parish can not marry , his own or other subjects without due ' authorization. So a runaway couple would find it rather difficult to elude a pursuing parent, and, be sides this, to be valid, there must be two witnesses to the marriage one will not sufflca For the lawful celebration of the ceremony one of the contracting parties should live for a month in the. parish where the marriage is to be performed. This is not essential to validity, however. Marriages of persons without fixed abodes, according; to the regulations, should be referred to the bishop before the ceremony. All this will make the hasty marriage ; well nigh impossible to Catholics. The new rules of the Catholio Church, however, are not the only bars placed In the way of Cupid. On the first of the year a law became effective in New York state maklns; it necessary to secure a license, after certain questions have been asked and recorded. . New York state has been a Mecca of runaway lovers, and the Little Church Around the Corner, in the metropolis, has been the scene of very many quick tyings of the nuptial, knot But all this, too, is of the past" The rector of the little Church Around the Corner, the Rev. Dr. Houghton, recently decided that double-quick marriages were often Ill-advised. So, now. it is necessary before marriage to have the banns published and to present the proper li censes. Of course, there has been a falling off of mar riages at the church. It is no longer a leading Gretna Green, for the United Statea ; ; - c Naturally, all this must be discouraging td Master Cupid. What will be dot He still directs lovlBg cou .ples to places that have long held high rank in his favor, like St Joseph, near Chicago; Wilmington DeL; . Bristol, vVa., and other noted "marrying cities.1 but he has lost much of his former enthusiasm. . , Of. course, it will be admitted that there have seen far too many impetuous marriages, snd thfct the new regulations will result in more lasting and . happier unions. But the year 1908, so far. baa been a serious one Jtorthia little sTod. ... ...v.:-.. ) fid VOv-,' f 4T 'f: -f D too many golden eggs. They learned to force their natu ral productive capacity, and the Bermuda Uly bulbs be gan to develop diseases that made them sterile. In some consignments there was a proportion as high as CO per cent of bulbs that failed to bloom. The astute Japanese a few years ago descried in the Christian festival and in Bermudan avarice the oppor tunity which is Japan's watchword. For soma time now Americans have been celebrating their Easter, all un knowingly, with a Uly from far-away Japan, the only difference noted being that lilies nowadays seem to be growing leaves narrower and longer and flowers not quite so large as we used to see when we were boys and girls. And already Japan has overreached herself. This great, lavish, luxury-loving America, whose women will spend for a plant at a parlor window enough money to keep an Oriental family a week, has been continually growing, continually demanding more such extrava gances, a little In the name of religion and a great deal in the nam of style. Japan would not be Japan if she could have resisted the temptation. So the new and hardy Japanese Uly is already sick of its sharp-eyed master's avarice. For two years and more the Japanese have been turning and twisting to discover some means to retain their hold upon this Im mense trade in Uly bulbs; and they have found it in the wild, beautiful, savage island of Formosa, to which they ara still sending their armies of subjugation while they are telling the world beyond that the land breathes a heavenly peace. All Is not peace in Formosa. But enough peace is there to let the Inflexible conquerors industriously build up business back of the fighting line: and the Formosa llllum longlflorum Is already with us, prepared to edify Christian piety at Easter so long as fashion admires the lily's pallor and so long as Japanese compliance with the demand falls to create the canker that breaks the lily's heart The hew Formosa Uly grows tall, from three to three and one-half feet with a foliage exceptionally fine in its greenness and very well shaDed. There are three bulb slses, those measuring from six to eight Inches in cir cumference giving three or tour blooms, those from seven to nine Inches giving from four to six, and those be tween nine and ten Inches furnishing from six to eight These bulbs are worth from 140 to 1105 a thousand, and they can arrive as late as August 20 which permits of potting early and allows the grower to refrain from ex treme forcing for the Easter season. It may be that some time the Easter Uly will relin quish its sovereignty to some other herald of the joyous spring. How they aspire to dispute the lily's title the asaleas that come from Holland and sell at prices rang ing from $1 to 110; the rhododendrons, that bring from $2 to 110 in the fulness of their delicately shaded charm; the splreas, from 60 cents to $1.50, with their largo, feath ery panicles of flowers, pink and white! But thus far all OI mera aaoraoio azaiea, wmi as vrim and pretty tulip-have onieved no fugnuy n gner than that of flowers-in-waiting upon the Uly, their queen. Before the altar, wnere tee soui or man is niaaen 10 rejoice in that It, too. shall arise and live beyond the tomb; in the home, where the Intimate, unseen roots of the virtues which are man's salvation feed and grow and twine everywhere today the Illy blooms, typifying the beneficence, pure and unalloyed, of Him who is the resur rection and the life. Spring Fashions in Marbles THERE is no surer harbinger of the arrival of ethereal mildness, commonly denominated "spring," than fhe appearance of the local small boy and his marble games, blocking the side walks and stairways with his petty gambling devices. From the large number of children engaged, it is evi dent that a considerable number of the rising genera tion are inclined to be sporty. It Is, hewever, not so much the marbles at stake as the pride of winning, of which the marbles are the outward and visible form, that makes their acquisi tion so prime a necessity to boyhood happiness. The game of "Chase" is one of the most popular marble games. It may be played by two or more. The first player tosses ills "shooter," which is larger than the ordinary marble, a short distance away. The second player tosses his "shooter" at the first "shoot er," arid if he hits it he gets a marble, but If he does not hit It the first boy leaves the "shooter" where it lands, ready for the next one to toss. If only two are playing, the first player tosses his "shooter" at the second player's "shooter," and so on until one of them hits the other's "shooter.". Then he gets a marble and tosses his "shooter" out again. "Odd and Even" is another gambling game which is played with marbles. One boy holds in his hand as many marbles as he likes. Another guesses whether It is odd or even. If It is odd and he guesses odd, he wins all the marbles in the hand. If he says "even" and it is odd, he forfeits a marble. The players take turns in holding out. Another way to play this game is to give as many . marbles when you guess wrong as the player holds out One Incident witnessed was ot a boy holding out his . entire sack of marbles, 080 in all. The other . player guessed "even," which It was, and so he gained all the marbles. "Bump Out" is a marble game by two players. One of the players puts a marble about two feet from some walL He bounds another marble against the wall and ground. If it hits, he gets the marble. Otherwise, he leaves It on the ground where It stops. The other Slayer tries the same thing, and so on till one of them Its a marble. The one that hits sets all the marbles on the ground. 1 . . . "In a Ring" is a game that Is played with as many as you like. It Is best to select a place that is level so that the marbles will not roll away. Some boys make a ring and In , it . they place three marbles apiece. You stand a short distance away- knuckle -down to the ground and shoot at the marbles in the ring with a "shooter." If you knock a marble out of the ring you get a marble and have another shot. If you don't hit any you have to leave your "shooter" where It goes. , The next player either shoots at the marbles or the other fellow's "shooter." If he is shooting at the hooter" and hits It, he gets a marble, which he takes out of the ring.. He then gets another turn. The next player does the same, and so on until. J1 the marbles are out of the ring. Then they put more marbles In and continue the game, - - ... 1 (':