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Popular Only for a Day
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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-
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nave Compelled SOme exaltation Of the flOW-
tTS; but the fact is apparent that Eastertide
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brings with its festival bloom no tinge of sad
ness, no sense of unfitness.
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beautiful resurrection Of the flowers the vhen received, but a surprisingly large number are in
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SWeeieSt, mast fit Symbol Of the resurrection chased principally for the decoration of churches.
tf the Saviour tuhnsr emer verier frrvm. th
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tomtf typified the new birth of the human 50.
The story of the immaculate lily and of
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. 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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HORNING, APRIL .19, 1903
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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
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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
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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
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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, - -
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