Life — April 7, 1904 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE. Easter and the Egg. AST ed to be a religious festival, but in the pagan life of modern America it has become a fashionable, sartorial satur- nalia, given over to tailors, milliners and a society whose eminence is based on cash and clothes Easter has its traditions, its habits and costumes, The egg is the sym- bol of Easter, The origin of this tradition is obscure ; some college girls know all about it; which make a specialty of ation might find it for us, but historical novels and Christian Science e silent on the matter. Any egg will do for the symbol— universities old egg or new, railroad or fresh, strictly fresh or new laid, The I hen or ostrich, a grocer, the egg-accumulating habit of the The thrift of th hen raiser, and the heterodox theory that eggs, like wine, improve with years, have cooled the national ardor for egg- ter egg food cuts no figut INSIGHT. He (to himself) LOVE WER. She (to herself): Ves, LL ACCRIT WIM TONIGHT, SO WE CAN BE MARRIED IN DECEMBER AND SPEND THE WINTER IN FLORIDA. 1 WONDER IP SHE MAS ANY SUSPICION THAT 1 eating and congested the national larder with sawdust and other breakfast cerea Asits repute as a donne bouche has declined, the egg has increased in popularity as an aid to art and politics. ‘The custom of storing plain Easter eggs roaders, for the fall campaign and theatrical season, still btains in remote districts; but the unexpurgated egg as a dramatic tribute, as an expression of critical opinion, len into some disr preferably rail- ate since the theatre became an ap- panage of the Jerusalem Syndicate. It is possible the enormous expense entailed by presenting eggs to all the new-laid actors of the Syndicate may have discouraged a strenuously critical public ; and doubtless the difficulty of differentiating a gentile and a kosher egg has had its influ- ence in the decay of this thoughtful custom, The origin of the hand-painted egg is lost in antiquity Doubtless Noah painted eggs while illuminating the scenery around Mount Ararat after his Lenten cruise. Hand- ‘ made, it is Our best people nowaday eschew the hand-painted omelet, which is now restricted to rapid-transit hasheries. The intluence of the hand-painted egg on the Declaration of Independence and the Monroe Doctrine is not as gener- ally understood as it should be. Jeffarson might have been an Anglomaniac but that he breakfasted with an English nobleman with a passion for eggs of ancient lineage The Easter egg has become an American institution ; it decorates the painted omelets were common in Ptolemy's day, assumed, from decorated eggs. American parlor and adorns the Ameri- can hotel; but for its simple and un- pretentious existence the virulent Christmas-giving habit would break ata son when the bills for our previous compulsory generosity were unpaid. Long live the Easter egg; like that amiable product of these later days, the millionaire, we love it as long as itis unbroken. foseph Smith. Modern Version. RETEND to love your enemies. There's apt to be more money in it than by showing them your hatred. If you rob aman of his coat, don’t be satisfied, but try and get his cloak also. If your right eye offend you, go to a specialist. Don't let your right hand know what your left hand is doing. There is no use in being too much ashamed of yourself. Take no thought for to-morrow. Look out for the day after to-morrow, and to-morrow will take care of itself. Consider not your raiment. Pay your dressmaker or your tailor enough so that you will not have to. C ARA: Didn't your best fellow lose an arm in the Spanish War ? Map: Yes, But he still has enough to go ‘round. comicbooks.com