i BABI ER FLOWER RE: automobile. These Faster fare many. Sates Sully fo lafiorate an stmus toys a as much, days when children wera 'satisfied with a fow eo boiled in coffee to io wn or in onion peel to mmke them yellow, are gone fofever--gone with the days of tho crinoline and the old horse car, ilicent ecroations of sugar and ste and chocolate have taken their | place, and who can say that it is not the best 7° The world has. been # nd nding. The le tha growing o expanding poop! wshotity Tor: "the Statement were not for | foliage Butte r two grea and Chr's t ve waxed plentiful and cone tine © to multiply. Men mist = work that men may live, and out of the has grown the demand---for it is a fact that in holiday trade a xe verse condition exists, and the do- mand does not create the supply. A crafty baker or confectioner, or makir of toys, finds competition pretty kein, and in order to bolster up hi trude steals' a march on hiv competis tors and fills his windows with some now oreation in the Eater line. Young A or young Germany, or young anybody, - sees the beauties thus temp tingly displayed, and instantly desires them. And the demand is created. There are in Germany whole families ole communities--who work six months of the year creating and man- tor novelties, their time in area, almost certain localities finds in living raising Easter lilies for the markets of world: It: takes -a whole regiment of farmers to raise enough to jeaple who find the millinery trade as Faster ap- proaches is e ninety per cent.; every tailor in. Christian world, provably, is ealled upon to make ono {or more Easter suite of clothing: the batters, have thei hands full; drivers carriages and livery men reap a harvest driving people to and from the Eastertime receptions; dye works are run gvertime, creating the color that is to make the eggs attractive, while in large cities clever women with deft fingers make fortunes every year : preity and dainty novelties , ildren of the very rich and well to do, The effect of holidays Easter on the economic condition of the country is marvellous. These make people spend money, nd thus serve to keop the currency in Were it not for Christ- | old musty mattresses, ! itself and 'its pos. stom must be fol novelties ELT as nice a hat for Faster as the girl who sits next to her in church; John- ny must have just as many eggs as the boy of his neighbors, who are continually looking down on us, and 80 it goes. The money that had been ved up against a rainy day goes to the heart of some member . The result of all this the merchant is able to pay his bilfs, the manufacturer is able to | pay his hands, the hands are able to pay their grocer, the grocer his tailor, the butcher his baker, and because of a church holiday--the most blessed in the calendar of all holidays--the great wheels: of commerce are kept slowly grinding og, and to the religious sig- | "0 added the industrial worth | nificance i of Easter. I4ee than half a century ago the toymaking industry of America was an ingignilicant one, the bulk of the Eas tor novelties coming to this county from Germany, Austria apd Switzer land, Year by year, however, the busi- ness has been growing, until - how there are great establishments in Am- erich devated exclusively to the manu- facture of novelties for the Easter trade. And here is a peculiar thing. Many of the novelties that are popu- lar with the children of American ties--especially those who live on the Pacific coast, are made in China and Japan, and a golden stream of good Amyrican coin flows annually across the Pacife in exchange for the unique and brightly-colored ae that are purcly the product of orfiental genius. DARADE ON FIFI A ERDING: TTT E C17 {LL fii Thus does the heathen Orient contri bute to the joy of the Christian holi- day, And talking of Easter toys, has it ocourred to you that the Bunny has been dislodged from his proud cmin- | ence of Easter ority 7 | "What is your best selling Faster | toy 1 asked of a shopman. in a pro- | minent city. | {And what said he 'think you ? Sot the hunny: no, for I have told you | that, | sugar egg, nor the chocolate egg, nor | the feathery heu, mor the old-fashion- od Fuster next. What then? "The Rooseveit Bear." | Next in popularity, he = came toy automobiles, made either pasty | pastry or metal, with little wicker bas- | kets on the back filled with sugar | eggs. At another place 1 found on dis- | play huge sugar models of the Buffalo McKinley monument, and the shopman told me that they wore having a good sale. » Most of the toys that I found on sale were American made. In the Black Forest of Germany are thou- sands of people who exist solely bv making toys, and twdnty or thirty vears ago their wares found a large market in the United States. Now, however, the great bulk of Easter tovs sold in this country are homemade, and the domestic toy is rapidly driv. ing the foreign product from the mar- ket. Tt is, after all, a happy thought that with all its frivolity--with all the drifting away [rom the religious sen: a wld Nor yet the colored egg, nor the | ad Be A a A Ali tA ACTUATE, ATT. ALY LATER TOV ELI? for all kinds of religious decorative material they have a decided influence upon industrial conditions. In this connection an amusing story is. told of a telegraph operator who was call- ed upon to handle a message which : "He ascended into heaven, 24 feet long and 6 feet wide." The tele , of course, referred to the in- scription and the dimensions of & ban- ner to be used at an Easter celebra- tion, but . the poor operator, who knew nothing of the details, could think of nothing but some wondetful natural (or, rather unnatural pheno menon. Easter, because of the sacredness of the day and the theme, is not a fer- tile field for the humorist. There is a good story, however, told on one of America's leading artment store magnates, whose al pride in a large ay school in a bie dty. The magnate in question is the super- intendent of the Sunday school and on the Sunday in question--Easter Day, by the way--be told the infant class, in simple words, thé wonderful | story of the Resurrection. The child: . TCA EIS, LAY. THE EATER LFET thment that is noticed in the observ. ance of Easter day--there is yet a bright side, and that from our very frivolity comes ' happiness and peace and prosperity to hundreds of thou- sands who make their living by manu- facturing the foolish little trifies that we squander our money om. The very religious - observance ol Easter itself adds greatly to the in- dustrial importance of 'the day. In- deed, the demands created by the church itseli are responsible for the expenditure of many hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is one man in the state of New York who makes his entire livelihood raising calla lilics and selling them oxclusive- ly to churches, He has mere upon acre of ground under glass and there he, like the father of a large and silent | fofhily, watches his charges day &nd night. From the bulb to the tiny shoot they grow, and from the shoot they enlarge to the sturdy plant, and when springtime comes they blosson forth in all theiy glory. Like a sea of white they stretch away as far as eye can sce, each pure white flower typical of the life Him Whom we commem- arate, and it;'seems almost like sacri- fice when the voice of the ener in heard to say : "Yes, those flowers will 'stand me in a profit of a good twen- ty-five cents .a blossom." There are something like 50,000 plants in bloom each spring, so that the profit may justly be considered a pretty fair one. Easter festivals are among the most important in the Sunday-school year, | and in the way of creating a market | ren sat as if spellbound. You could have heard a pin drop when he con- cluded: "And now, my children, if there are any of you who have any (questions to ask you may do so." One little girl's hand went up. "What is it Salie 9" the superintendent ask- od," kindly. "If you please, Mr. Smith," piped the little one in a shrill, small voice, "will those Easter rabbits you have in the window be sold at a bar- gain now that Easter is over 2" The answer is mot recorded. Easter is a spring festival and com- ing as it does, at a time when all na- ture is about to blossom into new life, it is by very force a festival of flowers. In New York, Boston, Balti- more, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Milwaukee and all the big cities of America side- walk or curbstone flower-dealets blos- som into life and do a bi~ business. Tn . European countries street floral abound at Eastertide, there al- wavs seem customers enough for ail 'their wares. . There is 'probably no dealers of flow- ers in America who does not double his force at Eastertide, and it is a sad commentary that the exigencies of the occasion are such that, with long hours and great rush of work, some of the little fellows who do the deliv- ering of flowers in a big city have a vretty hard time of it. It is recorded that once in New York city a little follow who had been hopping off the delivery waggon all day long, from seven o'clock in the morning until evening, and then straight on until three o'clock the next morning, fell asleep in the bottom of the delivery cart. The driver did not notice him, and the poor chap, too exhausted to move, lay there without covering until morning. Easter came early that year --like this--and the night was bitter sold. Outside in the bright, happy world the Easter bells were loudly clanging the glad message, "Christ is risen, hallelulia." The stevets pore thron with eager people, hastening on a but Ta in the shed, amid the neighing of horses' and the odors of the barn the little delivery boy lay dead. Before t buried him, two days later, they placed in his hand a fair white blossom of the lilies he had been delivering when the sleep of death overcame him. He was in very truth sacrificed to make a Christian holiday. Others there are, too, who, goaded on by a merciless public that must have its flowers, and its hats, and its clothes, who give out under the strain and lay down to die on the field of battle. A well-known manufacturer, watch- ing the Fifth avenue Easter parade in New York last y an hour 12 new hats on men alone. If one man could sea the mum- ber of new hats in half an hour, on one street in one city, how many new men's hats were. worn in the United States that Easter Sunday ? and how many women's ? and how wang fouls of ribbon do you sul it to trim those hats? How many thous- ands of spools of thread were empti- ed in creating them ? How many hun- dreds of tireless fingers put in the many, many stitches that held them together, and how many fields were emptied of straw to supply the braid that = cove wire over which the hats were made ? And this is only one tiny branch of the Easter industry. Tn all' walkd of life work is created 'and business freshened by Easter's approach, and no matter what your belief, you cannot but ap oreeciate a holiday that does so much for business. : Don't Cough To-Night. 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