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224EASTER LILIES AND GIRLS Reigning Styles Favor the Curves of the Easter Flower. Some Odd Designs in Spring Gowns for the Church Festival. Bonnets, Hair, Skirts, Sleeves and Capes Carr All Be Apadpted to the Lily Shape. The Lily girl will bloom today. Easter Sunday is the fit day of all the year in which to consider the "lillies". All flowers in some oriental languages are classed under the term lillum a name of ancient and uncertain origin. The botanist has classified fifty species of the lily family all confined to the northern hemisphere in thinking of speaking of lilies we always mean the snowy bell-like flower with its breast of gold, but there are fed purple and blue lillies. Japanese lillies with their splendid wealth of coloring white dotted with purple of coloring white dotted with purple and striped with gold, white and rose-colored and the familiar Chinese tiger lily, with its bronze flecked petals. The lily of the Old Testament is conjectured to have been red in coloring, and the red anemone with which all the fields of Gallilee are dotted, is likely to have suggested the figure, perfect in its sublimity, which Christ used in glorifying the lillies of the field. But the glistening white lily waas one of the commonest garden flwoers of antiquity, appearing with the rose and the violet from Homer down to the sweet poet who sings. Take a lily in thy hand. As the flower of spotless purity it was always contrasted with the blood red rose of Aphrodite. In the middle ages the lily was taken as the symbol of heavenly purity, and the painters have crowned their Madonnas with the golden-hearted flowers and placed the spray of tender gleed, blossoming and budding in the head of the angel that with raiment white as snow declareth the resurrection of Christ." It is doubtful if there be any record in the New Testament of Christ's having ever made public reference to any other flower save the lily and this makes the blossom peculiarly fit to be the emblem of the Eastertide. WHERE THE LILIES COME FROM Our Easter flower is an alien coming from Bermuda, Holland and Japan ninety per cent come from Bermuda, the extra freight preventing other countries from competing with the island, and for another important reason, that the Bermuda lily is the most beautiful and is easier to bring into bloom at Easter. The bulbs to the number of 8,000,000 are annually imported in July or August. The lily growers separate the bulb into parts, and plant each part. The new bulbs are not exported the first year, but are the second. It takes four years to produce the great bulbs four inches in diameter, from which spring the tall stalk, crowned with many blossoms. The grower has boards with four holes of different sizes, and the bulbs are sorted by passing them through these holes. One sees in Bermuda lily fields covered with plants from a few inches to two or three feet. The bulbs from the tall ones are sent to the United States. The florists then pot them and keep them in green houses where by a system of clipping they are forced to bloom just at Easter. A GREAT INDUSTRY. The growing of flowers has become an important industry and one man frequently puts out 30,000 bulbs. The 3,000,000 bulbs will average 18,000,000 blossoms allowing six to a plant and besides that enormous quantity thousands of choice flowers are cut by the Bermuda growers just at the Eastern season. These answer all the purposes of decoration and will last almost as long as potted plants. They are shipped in the bud, each one wrapped carefully in cotton. Just before they are wanted for use they are set in water, when they unfold and become perfect flowers, only a little inferior in size to those grown at much greater expense in the greenhouses around the great cities. Fifteen million blossoms will be in use all over the land today. In the churches the stairs will be banked with the cut flowers woven into garlands, wreaths and crosses the chancel will be screened from sight by the tall potted plants, some rich with a dozen buds and perfect flowers in the Sunday schools and missions the children will be taught the beautiful resurrection story, typified by the dark brown bulb buried deep in the earth, arising in the sunshine and warmth to blossom in white and gold. In the homes all through the land the flowers will decorate alike the palace of the rich and glorify the novel of the poor, telling its beautiful story as the holly and mistletoe bring the message of peace and good will at the Christmastide. THE DASTER GIFT. "The gift of gifts for friends or loved ones is the tall green plant with its crown of white and gold, in the beautiful vase of wonderful pottery. Thousands of these messengers are sent every Easter morning, besides great bundles of cut flowers, which the maiden will pin on her breast, or place between the lids of her prayer book as she hurries away to the lily-decked church. THE LILY GIRL. A beautiful thought has come to some of the maidens who have been keeping Lent and wearing sombre cloth and colors. They are having the fronts of their Easter gowns filled in with violets, valley lillies sprays of lilacs of whatever flower best suits their fancy, and with their blossom-wreathed bonnets and the great nosegays they will carry they will be veritable Easter flowers themselves, the fairest and sweetest of any land or clime. The flaring skirts of the present mode offer abundant opportunity for the designing Easter gowns adapted to the form of the lily. the wide sleeves the tiny bonnets and even the prevailing style of wearing the hats all possess the same delicate curves of the great Easter flower and it is not improbable that today's Fifth avenue parade will contain many examples of the animated lily. 100 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. What shall our little girls read? Little girls are made of sugar and spice, and all that's nice, as everyone knows and there is no who [word] such a precious thing as a daughter, without being more or less puzzled as to what shall furnish mental food and recreation for her. A gentleman writes to me I have read lists of books for boys, lists of books for old people, but I do not remember to have read, what concerns me most a list of books for girls (Our boys are all girls) Will you not kindly publish an ideal reading course viewed from your point of view, for girls. Our oldest daughter is now nearing her 10th year. The entire field of literature will soon be at her disposal and I am and her mother is, very anxious that the best shall be given her. The same desire is, I am sure, uppermost in the heart of every patient visited by the World-Herald. This letter is written at my office, but I know that my wife would join me very heartily in my request if she were here. Our painstaking young librarian Miss Jessie Allen, once said to me. There is a great depth of good books for girls. I am really sorry for the girls who visit the library. Many of them have read every book which could be strictly considered a girls book, in the place. There are plently of authors for the boys. But the girls have not for their share of good literature." With this in mind I looked over the finding list of the Omaha public library only to find that there are five books writeen particularly for boys, to one written for girls. Speaking of this to a very cultivated woman who has a genius for instruciton, and whose acquaintance with books and girls is large, they said "I do not think that either girls or boys should be kept on literature designed especially for their sex. I think that girls should read boys' books and boys should read girls books. It enlarges their sympathies and rounds their characters. They sympathize with and understand each other better. Nor do I think it wise to keep girls too long on juvenile literature. The Dinsmore books, and even Miss Alcotts stories can be overdone. I have known girls of is or I who have been kept on that mild literary diet until they had taste for nothing better. Wholesome baby food is right for infants, but after ones teeth are cut, stronger food can be digested. Now anyone can enjoy 'Little Women and the rest of Miss Alcott's stones. You understand I merely mean to say that a young girl's mind cannot be expanded to its capacity if she is kept on books of that sort. It is good as far as it goes. We all love it and the class of books it stands for but if vistes are to be opened up to the mind the library of a young firl must not be limited to books of that kind. As soon as possible I would lead the mind of either boy or girl to the classics, and I would encourage them to read books that relate to achievement I would give them lofty ideals. The daily stress of living will lower their ideals fast enough at best. The books that refer to commonplace, everyday things are wholesome and sweet. They should be read. But they are not enough. A higher note must be touched. This is the children's age. This is also the children's country lienry James used ot say that Americans-about whom he always writes as if he were an alien-gave him the impression of being the sefs of the children. He is wrong of course. James known how to be brillantly wrong and always in the most elegant English. But it is true that to serve the children has been one of the religions of America. It is in this country that there has grown up for them a delightful and healthful literature. Here have been printed those almost perfect periodicals which weekly or monthly bring to the fireside illustrations, tales simple philosophy and ehtic prepared by the best artists and authors. The home that admits St. Nicholas Harper's Young. People of the Youth's Companion opens up the way for a good education, a standard of honor and pleasant manners to the children. An intelligent child will come to have all these desirable things as the result of a continuous [word] of any of these peroidicals. The days are fortunately past when children are forced to read the disgusting pages of 'Gulliver's Travels" in order to find amusement. They still cling to "Arabian Nights" "Robinson Crusoe" and "Swiss Family Robinson," and no child a library should be without them. Taking it for granted that these stand on the shelves of our girl's book case, let us consider further. This consideration must have its tentative qualities. It is absurd to be dogmatic about a thing of this kind. But, supposing that our daughter is 10 years of age, that she has had those [word] little Dotty Dimple books just as hse has had the measles got through with any number of brilliantly illustrated books of infantile doggerel and is really ready to begin reading books, let us see what she would better have on her shelves. Suppose, then, that we wish to provide her room with 100 good books which will give her information in a pleasant way, stimulate her imagination in a healthful manner, and give her much amusement and delight. how will the following list do-a list which has purposely avoided many of the books popular wiht girls for reasons not necessary to explain in detail. The list is not dogmatically offered. It is merely a suggestion, and it might be well for those who are interested in the matter to correct it make further suggestions or enlarge it. 1- The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling. As said before, this is merely suggestive. A large number of these books have been recommended to me by my own little daughter and two of her personal friends and each number is, so I am told "the loveliest hook that ever was" Children know, of course what they like and ought to be given what they like, so long as they do not show a vicious tastes. But I am persuaded that juvenile literature even when it has such classics in it as contained in the foregoing list, will not long satisfy the active-minded girl. They like more vital creative fiction than that which deals merely with childhood. I discovered that about six months ago when my small child went around with a long end rumpled brown veil dangling from her head. Several days paused without my curiosity being suffciently aroused to inquire what this exraordinary decoration signified. At last I asked "I'm Rowena" she replied in a stately manner, 'Rowena of the Saxons I've just been to a joust and nearly all the knights were killed" On rainy days the brown veil still asserts itself and Rowena, a very, small and thin little girl, with eerie gray eyes, sits on chair arms looking down into an imaginary arena. It is an easy step from one of Scott's books to others and already the excusions are being made. And as fro Dickens- a child can no more be kept away from Dickens than flies can be kept out of a sugar bowl. Children do not need to be protected from literature as much as commonly thought. A pint cup holds only a pint, though it be dipped in the Atlantic, and a child can read adult books and take away only the part that assimilates with childhood. Certainly, for a well trained childhood the girl of intelligence may well be trusted in the home library to read what she pleases. It is not for any one to get bounds and metes for her. She may have a capacity fro comprehension which the purchaser of the library never possessed. The human soul soon comes to its own repsonsibilty. The human mind runs to its liberty. ELIA W. PEATTIE CAME IN AT THE MUZZLE. A Story of the Minie Balls Which Met in Midan. (Japan Mail) Here is a remarkable story of the war in Far Cathay. While storming the first line of forts at Fort Arthur, a soldier belonging to the Twenty-tourth regiment raised his rifle to fire at an unusually conspicuous Chinaman. Just as he was about to fire a bullet from the enemy's side came whizzing on, and, mavelous to relate, entered the barrel of his own gun as smoothly and neatly as if the muzzles had been placed mouth to mouth. Of course, there was an explosion, and the soldier's piece was shattered to the stock, but without his recieving any injuries whatever. A fractional variation to the right or left would have caused the hostile bullet to enter head or face, so that his excape was nothing short of miraculous. He preserved the stock of the now useless weapon and afterward exhibited it to his colonel who permitted him to keep it as a memenot of his narrow escape it is probably the first instance of the kind on record since Baron Munchansen's day. | 224EASTER LILIES AND GIRLS Reigning Styles Favor the Curves of the Easter Flower. Some Odd Designs in Spring Gowns for the Church Festival. Bonnets, Hair, Skirts, Sleeves and Capes Carr All Be Apadpted to the Lily Shape. The Lily girl will bloom today. Easter Sunday is the fit day of all the year in which to consider the "lillies". All flowers in some oriental languages are classed under the term lillum a name of ancient and uncertain origin. The botanist has classified fifty species of the lily family all confined to the northern hemisphere in thinking of speaking of lilies we always mean the snowy bell-like flower with its breast of gold, but there are fed purple and blue lillies. Japanese lillies with their splendid wealth of coloring white dotted with purple of coloring white dotted with purple and striped with gold, white and rose-colored and the familiar Chinese tiger lily, with its bronze flecked petals. The lily of the Old Testament is conjectured to have been red in coloring, and the red anemone with which all the fields of Gallilee are dotted, is likely to have suggested the figure, perfect in its sublimity, which Christ used in glorifying the lillies of the field. But the glistening white lily waas one of the commonest garden flwoers of antiquity, appearing with the rose and the violet from Homer down to the sweet poet who sings. Take a lily in thy hand. As the flower of spotless purity it was always contrasted with the blood red rose of Aphrodite. In the middle ages the lily was taken as the symbol of heavenly purity, and the painters have crowned their Madonnas with the golden-hearted flowers and placed the spray of tender gleed, blossoming and budding in the head of the angel that with raiment white as snow declareth the resurrection of Christ." It is doubtful if there be any record in the New Testament of Christ's having ever made public reference to any other flower save the lily and this makes the blossom peculiarly fit to be the emblem of the Eastertide. WHERE THE LILIES COME FROM Our Easter flower is an alien coming from Bermuda, Holland and Japan ninety per cent come from Bermuda, the extra freight preventing other countries from competing with the island, and for another important reason, that the Bermuda lily is the most beautiful and is easier to bring into bloom at Easter. The bulbs to the number of 8,000,000 are annually imported in July or August. The lily growers separate the bulb into parts, and plant each part. The new bulbs are not exported the first year, but are the second. It takes four years to produce the great bulbs four inches in diameter, from which spring the tall stalk, crowned with many blossoms. The grower has boards with four holes of different sizes, and the bulbs are sorted by passing them through these holes. One sees in Bermuda lily fields covered with plants from a few inches to two or three feet. The bulbs from the tall ones are sent to the United States. The florissts then pot them and keep them in green houses where by a system of clipping they are forced to bloom just at Easter. A GREAT INDUSTRY. The growing of flowers has become an important industry and one man frequently puts out 30,000 bulbs. The 3,000,000 bulbs will average 18,000,000 blossoms allowing six to a plant and besides that enormous quantity thousands of choice flowers are cut by the Bermuda growers just at the Eastern season. These answer all the purposes of decoration and will last almost as long as potted plants. They are shipped in the bud, each one wrapped carefully in cotton. Just before they are wanted for use they are set in water, when they unfold and become perfect flowers, only a little inferior in size to those grown at much greater expensse in the greenhouses around the great cities. Fifteen million blossoms will be in use all over the land today. In the churches the stairs will be banked with the cut flowers woven into garlands, wreaths and crosses the chancel will be screened from sight by the tall potted palnts, some rich with a dozen buds and perfect flowers in the Sunday shcools and missions the children will be taught the beautiful resurrection story, typified by the dark brown bulb buried deep in the earth, arising in the sunshine and warmth to blossom in white and gold. In the homes all through the land the flowers will decorate alike the palace of the rich and glorify the novel of the poor, telling its beautfiful story as the holly and mistletoe bring the message of peace and good will at the Christmastide. THE DASTER GIFT. "The gift of gifts for friends or loved ones is the tall green plant with its crown of white and gold, in the beautfiul vase of wonderful pottery. Thousands of these messengers are sent every Easter morning, besides great bundles of cut flowers, which the maiden will pin on her breast, or place between the lids of her prayer book as she hurries away to the lily-decked church. THE LILY GIRL. A beaufiul thought has come to some of the maidens who have been keeping Lent and wearing sombre cloth and colors. They are having the fronts of their Easter gowns filled in with violets, valley lillies sprays of lilacs of whatever flower best suits their fancy, and with their blossom-wreathed bonnets and the great nosegays they will carry they will be veritable Easter flowers themselves, the fairest and sweetest of any land or clime. The flaring skirts of the present mode offer abundant opportunity for the designing Easter gowns adapted to the form of the lily. the wide sleeves the tiny bonnets and even the prevalling style of wearing the hats all possess the same delicate curves of the great Easter flower and it is not improbable that today's Fifth avenue parade will contain many examples of the animated lily. 100 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. What shall our little girls read? Little girls are made of sugar and apice, and all thats nice, as everyone knows and there is no who [word] such a precious thing as a daughter, without being more or less puzzled as to what shall furnish mental food and recreation for her. A gentleman writes to me I have read lists of books for boys, lists of books for old people, but I do not remember to have read, what conerns me most a list of books for girls (Our boys are all girls) Will you not kindly publish an ideal reading course viewed from your point of view, for girls. Our oldest daughter is now nearing her 10th year. The entire field of literature will soon be at her disposal and I am and her mother is, very anxious that the best shall be given her. The same desire is, I am sure, uppermost in the heart of every patient visted by the World-Herald. This letter is written at my office, but I know that my wife would join me very heartily in my request if she were here. Our painstaking young librarian Miss Jessie Allen, once said to me. There is a great depth of good books for girls. I am really sorry for the girls who visit the library. Many of them have read every book which could be strictly consideered a grils book, in the place. There are plently of authors for the boys. But the girls have not for their share of good literature" With this in mind I looked over the finding list of the Omaha public library only to find that there are five books writeen particularly for boys, to one written for girls. Speaking of this to a very cultivated woman who has a genius for instruciton, and whose acquaintance with books and girls is large, they said "I do not think that either girls or boys should be kept on literature designed especially for their sex. I think that girls should read boys' books and boys should read girls books. It enlarges their sympathies and rounds their characters. They sympathize with and understand each other better. Nor do I think it wise to keep girls too long on juvenile literature. The Dinsmore books, and even Miss Alcotts stories can be overdone. I have known girls of is or I who have been kept on that mild literary diet until they had taste for nothing better. Wholesome baby food is right for infants, but after ones teeth are cut, stronger food can be digested. Now anyone can enjoy 'Little Women and the rest of Miss Alcott's stones. You understand I merely mean to say that a young girl's mind cannot be expanded to its capacity if she is kept on books of that sort. It is good as far as it goes. We all love it and the class of books it stands for but if vistes are to be opened up to the mind the library of a young firl must not be limited to books of that kind. As soon as possible I would lead the mind of either boy or girl to the classics, and I would encourage them to read books that relate to achievement I would give them lofty ideals. The daily stress of living will lower their ideals fast enough at best. The books that refer to commonplace, everyday things are wholesome and sweet. They should be read. But they are not enough. A higher note must be touched. This is the children's age. This is also the children's country lienry James used ot say that Americans-about whom he always writes as if he were an alien-gave him the impression of being the sefs of the children. He is wrong of course. James known how to be brillantly wrong and always in the most elegant English. But it is true that to serve the children has been one of the religions of America. It is in this country that there has grown up for them a delightful and healthful literature. Here have been printed those almost perfect periodicals which weekly or monthly bring to the fireside illustrations, tales simple philosophy and ehtic prepared by the best artists and authors. The home that admits St. Nicholas Harper's Young. People of the Youth's Companion opens up the way for a good education, a standard of honor and pleasant manners to the children. An intelligent child will come to have all these desirable things as the result of a continuous [word] of any of these peroidicals. The days are fortunately past when children are forced to read the disgusting pages of 'Gulliver's Travels" in order to find amusement. They still cling to "Arabian Nights" "Robinson Crusoe" and "Swiss Family Robinson," and no child a library should be without them. Taking it for granted that these stand on the shelves of our girl's book case, let us consider further. This consideration must have its tentative qualities. It is absurd to be dogmatic about a thing of this kind. But, supposing that our daughter is 10 years of age, that she has had those [word] little Dotty Dimple books just as hse has had the measles got through with any number of brilliantly illustrated books of infantile doggerel and is really ready to begin reading books, let us see what she would better have on her shelves. Suppose, then, that we wish to provide her room with 100 good books which will give her information in a pleasant way, stimulate her imagination in a healthful manner, and give her much amusement and delight. how will the following list do-a list which has purposely avoided many of the books popular wiht girls for reasons not necessary to explain in detail. The list is not dogmatically offered. It is merely a suggestion, and it might be well for those who are interested in the matter to correct it make further suggestions or enlarge it. 1- The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling. As said before, this is merely suggestive. A large number of these books have been recommended to me by my own little daughter and two of her personal friends and each number is, so I am told "the loveliest hook that ever was" Children know, of course what they like and ought to be given what they like, so long as they do not show a vicious tastes. But I am persuaded that juvenile literature even when it has such classics in it as contained in the foregoing list, will not long satisfy the active-minded girl. They like more vital creative fiction than that which deals merely with childhood. I discovered that about six months ago when my small child went around with a long end rumpled brown veil dangling from her head. Several days paused without my curiosity being suffciently aroused to inquire what this exraordinary decoration signified. At last I asked "I'm Rowena" she replied in a stately manner, 'Rowena of the Saxons I've just been to a joust and nearly all the knights were killed" On rainy days the brown veil still asserts itself and Rowena, a very, small and thin little girl, with eerie gray eyes, sits on chair arms looking down into an imaginary arena. It is an easy step from one of Scott's books to others and already the excusions are being made. And as fro Dickens- a child can no more be kept away from Dickens than flies can be kept out of a sugar bowl. Children do not need to be protected from literature as much as commonly thought. A pint cup holds only a pint, though it be dipped in the Atlantic, and a child can read adult books and take away only the part that assimilates with childhood. Certainly, for a well trained childhood the girl of intelligence may well be trusted in the home library to read what she pleases. It is not for any one to get bounds and metes for her. She may have a capacity fro comprehension which the purchaser of the library never possessed. The human soul soon comes to its own repsonsibilty. The human mind runs to its liberty. ELIA W. PEATTIE CAME IN AT THE MUZZLE. A Story of the Minie Balls Which Met in Midan. (Japan Mail) Here is a remarkable story of the war in Far Cathay. While storming the first line of forts at Fort Arthur, a soldier belonging to the Twenty-tourth regiment raised his rifle to fire at an unusually conspicuous Chinaman. Just as he was about to fire a bullet from the enemy's side came whizzing on, and, mavelous to relate, entered the barrel of his own gun as smoothly and neatly as if the muzzles had been placed mouth to mouth. Of course, there was an explosion, and the soldier's piece was shattered to the stock, but without his recieving any injuries whatever. A fractional variation to the right or left would have caused the hostile bullet to enter head or face, so that his excape was nothing short of miraculous. He preserved the stock of the now useless weapon and afterward exhibited it to his colonel who permitted him to keep it as a memenot of his narrow escape it is probably the first instance of the kind on record since Baron Munchansen's day. |