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Carter; 1924 m I'• '\W ft" "~t" '*' 4 I Its ■§ j m &£ £ mKm t- v jV f/H. i. '^j£'’i>ft<s3y^*'kgt; a| *>- %ry?** *&'*Tslfr*B&y£foi' *&s£• <&*,_ zyt : .Jrbr .tvv* Vi. MjZt/S ‘ ;<j v - , > • JtStrSw&Xrf /jj* i?j!f j l '^y^^' 1 V> ' y -<fr, S: ‘ > i know tho gallant dead still live! 1 know the faith for which they died flu now, and evermore will be, The world’s one law of life: That Truth and Righteousness Are strong as God— Are God Himself! These canont die, nor perish from the earth. This is my Easter Creed. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ASTER Sunday this year falls on April 20, as you *^ r3 , may or may not know. If you have been keeping Lent, you know, of course. If you are a milliner, naturally your Easter hats were ready on time. If you are a llor ist, you have had the date In your mind for months. If your business is hatching baby chickens in bicnbntors, statement of the date is entirely superfluous In your case. If you are interested commercially In eggs, Easter means your busy time. And so on. In this complex modern civilization Easter day means a lot •tore to the everyday world than the Festival of the Resurrection. But to the nonreligious man In the street, to whom the recurrence of tills great religious festival means nothing fnuncinlly, Easter comes sometime In the spring. Ills general impression Is that It falls either in March or April, owtlines In one and sometimes In the other. And that’s all he knows about It until something occurs to 4>reo April 20 upon Ills attention. This variability of Easter was a source of much trouble In the world for many centuries. Thus In A. D. 387 they had Easter In Gaul on March 21. In Italy on April 18 and in Egypt iin April 25. The festival now known ns Easter was celebrated by the Jews ns the Passover, ninny centuries before the llrtli of Jesus. It was unknown In fle early Christian centuries. Then n difference as to the time of celebration arose between Christians of Hebrew and of Gentile descent. Under the ■reckoning of the former, Easter might fall on any day of the week. The lat ter wished it to fall on Sunday. Thus arose a dispute—one of the most aoted In the history of mankind. The cause of it was the irregulari ties of the time of full moon in refer ence to the year. Finally the coin lined wisdom of the churchmen and astronomers and calendar-makers settled upon tills rule: Easter shall he the first Sunday after the 14th day of the moon which Inppens on or next after March 21. Some day this will likely he changed and Raster made a fixed day. A com mittee of the League of Nations Is at work on a calendar for a year of thirteen months. This will fix Easter and make the Fourth of July, Memo rial day and other fixed holidays fall always on the same day of the week. In the mean time Easter tables have already been computed for more than a century In the future. Under the ante given Easter cannot fall before March 22 or after April 25. Its eur- Jcst date In recent times was March & ■• s sll mmri/oi/js /■• :Ai k Miii vz . Nfei • wTM’WSijS^ or* iif;<^w 4A *<||m '*s??£*' W •i' & 20;af\ h | f #NfcL-'"'' m 7 / j JyT - '•^^^^' < ’-; • >. J||§l 22, 1818. It will fall on April 25 In 1943. While an astronomical calculation may he necessary to fix the exact date of Easter, spring has its own calendar and everybody knows it and keeps track ol’ it, In lands of frost and snow, from the first rains until the day we fall victims to the well-known and Justly celebrated tired feeling which sets us to fussing over the fishing tackle. The wild geese flying north, the first robin, the first bluebird, the first violet —all mark red-letter days on the calendar. Some of us, of course, may he so unfortunate that It takes a hand organ or a street piano to awake us to the fact that spring is here. As Berton Bruley puts it — My figures grow hazy, I gaze with n lazy And Indolent languor at nothing at all In happy enslavement, while up from the pavement The magical melodies summon and call. They build me a vision of meadows Elysian, Of brooklets that babble and breezes that croon, And wistful and tender young Spring in her splendor Comes danging to me on the wings of a tune. These things, material in themselves, are dominated by a spirituality that Insensibly puts us in touch with the religious lessons of the season. In the egg we see the symbol of poten tial life—hence tiie Easter egg, which Is so old that it goes back to time im ! memorial. In the Baby Chick we see ! the promise of the egg fulfilled —hence the millions of fluffy little live halls |of feathers that delight millions of children from coast to coast at Easter tide. In the budding flower we see a symbol of the triumph of life over death. So the pealing bells of Easter find us in receptive mood — In every trembling bud and bloom That cleaves the earth, a flowery sword, I see Thee come from out the tomb. Thou risen Lord. Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole Of life that quickens In the sod; Green April Is Thy very soul. Thou Great Lord God! In this springtime resurrection man sees a symbol of a future life —of Im mortal life. It matters not that there is no scientific proof of a future life. : He has the longing for it In his heart — and the Ivelief that it is true. Immor j tality seems to him a moral and spir ! itual necessity of the scheme of salva tion. Why else, he asks, should God .give us aspirations after Immortality? THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. 77rojms "j%ax*‘ **/"?£? ly W/</+ l-rot-tm/ In thoughts sublime that pie roe the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues. Flowers in*untold millions adorn Christianity’s altars at Eastertide and brighten American homes. Lilies doubtless hold first place—“pure lilies of eternal peace.” But many say: ' Not lilies, cold and passionless and pure. But gay. grave daffodils, And deep-blue violets, And hyacinths, whose sweet, exquisite bells Shake forth an unheard melody To brighten saddened souls. And arbutus, oh, arbutus! In Washington thousands will gaze with a thrill on tho Crown of Thorns plant in the Smithsonian institution. It is a cactus and thirty years of care have gone into its forming. Jerusalem, to which thoughts natu rally turn at Eastertide, will see many thousands of Christian pilgrims this year, for the first time since the World war put the Holy City in Christian hands. They will find Jerusalem prac tically unchanged. It is to he pre served from modern Improvements. “Doubtless a modern Jerusalem will grow up beside and around the ancient city, for the Jews hope to make it the center of a Jewish state. But, says Gen. Ronald Storrs, British gov ernor of the province of Judea: There is an atmosphere in that city that it takes years to appreciate, and our struggle Is for the intangible and the imperishable. That Is what should |be reverenced. Jerusalem is a city of a great soul; It has been in the past, and it is our hope that Jerusalem, bat tered forty times In its history, sur rounded by the grand and austere hills, will be able to create its own future from the wrecks It contemplates. These pilgrims will, however, find pure water in plenty, instead of cis tern water so foul that outbreaks of malaria and typhoid were common. The British engineers have cleaned and reconstructed Solomon’s pools, ancient reservoirs to the south of Bethlehem, and have brought good wa ter to Jerusalem. There should he no conflict between religion and science— and there probably is none. Of a cer tainty pure water is good for both hotly and soul. On the resurrection morning Soul and body meet again; No more sorrow, no more weeping. No more pain. On that happy Easter morning All the grav es their dead restore, Father, sister, child and mother. Meet once more. % 4 Why else should He give us the comfort of hope? Why should we be. en couraged to strive for a better life, If that life is to be snuffed OHt like a candle? The alter native is this: This life is but n colos sal hoax, if this life is all. Wrote George Eliot: 0, may I join that choir Invisible Of those Immortal dead who live again In minds’ made bet ter by their pres ence, live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable alms that end with self. Spanish Type of Home That Is Gaining Wide Popularity 4- 0” *| Fto R/vLjl_) jC Blf Rn^ \i-o * \i-o v^ \yo x 13V' I 9 V 4 --a hau> j 9 | ®rz ? = ;4j.i4^ N |\ &n*J i |tr^t R]nTngßm U / £2* \J ; ; *RKEFTACLi. | ']\/|K]r D tCL 1 E-C as/xt i-0' |ii|>lvlNGift'l Ml RV j 1 s-axq-g" J By WILLIAM A. RADFORD Mr. Willfcun A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these sub jects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 1527 Prairie avenue. Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent stamp for reply. “Home keeping hearts are the hap piest hearts,” someone has said with great aptness, knowing well that the statement is proved by the longing for home-owning, which is embedded in almost every human heart. And particularly are home keeping hearts happy when the home is de signed with due consideration for the wants of the family group which is to occupy it. Now, as never before, expert attention is being devoted to the design and construction of homes for families of moderate size, homes sacrifice nothing in beauty and convenience because they are meant for the modest household. Such a house is the one shown in the accompanying illustration. With the undoubted advantage, particularly to the housewife, of having all of the rooms on one floor, is combined a re markably beautiful and studied sim plicity of design. The well-worked out balance of the predominating straight lines is modified pleasingly by the arches of the entrance and porch. The Insertion of colored plaques in the stucco adds a delightful touch, while the roof'offers pleasing possibilities in the way of colored roofing material. The design is of Spanish type, which originated on the Pacific coast and rapidly is growing in popularity in all parts of the United States. Its typical bungalow construction allows It to he built with proper safeguards to insure coolness in summer and warmth in winter. The front door opens directly Into the living room of pleasant propor tions, dominated by the fireplace at one end, which forms a natural center for the grouping of the furniture for the room. The length and location of the windows insure adequate lighting for this room. The dining room, with the wide opening off the living room, opens at .once to the guest entering the home ■ \ist.i which magnifies even the na'- -ul spaciousness of the two com ,* .ned rooms. One of the most pleus Floor Plan. ing features of this room is that It opens directly on the porch to the side of the house, suggesting coo! sum mer dinners. This porch is available ] also from the living room. The arrangement of the kitchen, with its separated entryway and the convenient arrangement of the table, sink, built-in cabinet, range, and other features, will appeal to the cook, par ticularly to those who have struggled in a kitchen either too large or too small for comfort. The sleeping room quarters are at tractively arranged, with both bed rooms having cross ventilation and so planned that the bed may be placed to insure ample ventilation of rooms without placing the sleepers a drafts. The convenience of the clos ets shown in the floor plan tell their own story. The bath room nW readied readily from either o rooms, Tiie house is designed with a stucco exterior which may be applied satisfaction over several type® base, frame construction w.tl: lath or wood lath ns a basis or stucco; hollow tile or concrete block Cost of this home can be learned best from your local architect, c tractor or dealer in building nm e• Cost of material, because ot t * rates, and of labor vary so much the United States that it is bap cal to give an estimate wlilo.. "" approximately accurate for a tions of the country. Method of Renewing Colors of Rugs Given Grass and fiber rugs that have Nj come dull and color-worn ‘j greatly improved by an appl ’>< of oil color. There is read, n to the number of shades nQt fee obtained and the results many times for the small ex - ~and Materials: Colors ronn I In One-half pound for fig-A ;; t3 pound for deeper shades. T-vo qu gasoline or turpentine M . Method of treatment. T. sin out of doors. Pour In,; quarts gasoline or turpe j f oil color sufficient lo , shade desired. Let It and. a oughly. Apply the Be scrub brush or whisk b. - (W sure to use it outside, never -- house. Allow the rug to - fure taking into the house. line ptl lion