Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 125, 7 April 1917 — Page 11

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WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

"HAPPY EASTER"

RICHMOND, 1ND.. SATURDAY, APRIL 7. 1917.

"EASTER GREETINGS!'

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AS it began to dawn towards the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre; And behold there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaver, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it. His appearance was as lightning and his raiment white as snow; and for fear of him the watchers did quake and become as dead men. And the angel said unto the women, "Fear ye not; for I know ye seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here for He is risen as He said. Come see the place where the Lord lay." Matt. 28: 1-7.

WHY EASTER EGGS BELONG TO RABBITS Many years ago there was a very nice family of rabbits that lived in a. grassy place on a hillside back of a big farmyard. Their home was in a large hole in the ground and was very cozy. Every morning: the older rabbits would take their children for a walk and one day as they were goiug home they heard a great cackling and when they got home there was a large, fresh egg lying in the children's nest. The rabbits claimed it and it was given to the smallest and weakest r?.bbit, who was always painting things with the juice of flower petals. She stained it with blue -violet .mice. The next day the rabbits took a walk and when they came back there was another white egg right by the bine one. Every day that they came back from a walk they would find another egg in the nest. Thi3 continued until there were several and each rabbit got to paint one. They painted them all colors. ; Soon there became fo many eggs in the nest that the rabbits had to sleep outside the nest. O.ie Sunday (it must have been

Easter Sunday) all the rabbits went waiking again, and when they came back they found that all the eggs woie gone. The farmer's boy h.id been hunting hens' nests uid found them. As these eggs were colored and had been laid in a rabbit's nest the

farmer declared that they were rabbits'- eggs. Ever tince that Sunday the farmer, on Easter, colors eggs and puts the rabbits' pictures on them. He makes his children believe that the rabbits lay them. Zclma Starr, Eighth Grade, Boston. Indiana. ,

WHY THE EASTER LILIES BLOOMED

Many years ago in Cermany lived a poor widow and her child.Christina. Christina wa.4 not like you children, because she never walked a step ii her life. She had to sit in her mother's cottage all day long and try to make herself happy watching the other children play. One day while she was sitting by the window, she said to her mother: "Mother, do you remember the good man that was here the other day." "Yes, dear," replied her mother quietly. "Do you remember when he said 'If we ask God to send us anything, and if we really believed we would get it, it surely would come?" ' Yer-, child," replied her mother quickly, "What do you want?" "I want God to send twelve flowers to me, as bright as the sun, by the last of this winter," answered the child quietly. So she prayed for the flowers and watched eagerly for them until the first day of Spring. When her mother carried her to the window, she saw twelve bright lilies at her door step. Ever since then we have had lilies the first of Spring. We call thepe lilies Easier lilies because they always bloom for Easter.

A STORY OF A MAN AND HIS WISHES Once upon a time there lived a man and his wife in a cabin on a nil. . He chopped wood and plowed the ground. ' One day when he was out chop-

j ping wood he was about to chop

down a big tree, but a fariy jumped out of the tree and begged him not to cut it down, so he did not. The fafry said he could have two wishes so he asked for a good meal and a new ax. He got all his wishes and did not thank the fairy for his wishes. One day he was going to plow a little patch of ground but did not get to because some elves lived there and said if he would not plow it up he could have anything he wanted. So he asked for three bags of fioid, a palace, servants, horses and cows. He got all these wishes, but he did not thank the elves. One day these elves came to him and askca for some food but did not get it. So they took everything from him and left him poor as be-

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This is a lesson for people who are greedy. John Buhl, College Hill School.

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