St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-04-10
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AN EASTER ST.

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faced lady as she met us a few day:
before Easter, IS
We were strangers, in lodgings, II
that attractive city of the angels
Los Angeles. We had tried many OF
the different restaurants and board
s. ing-houses, Preferring often the more
home-like breakfast of eggs and coffee
boiled in our own room on our tiny
alcohol range, had enjoyed each
others company over our bright
wood fire. had baskcd in the glori-
Gus sunshine and toasted our North
crn ewes on mountain and valley,
orange grove and flower garden,
with the enthusiasm only one accus-
toned to Northern SHOWS can feel.
But, for all that, we were strangers
in a strange though lovely land, and
our ewes involuntarily looked long
II ingIv II through the pleasant win
dows of the homes of the city. Be
cause of this that cordial invitation
III %gladdened our hearts through all the
W week.
Halfpast SIX Sabbath morning
found us happy as children going up
and down the hills on Olive street
toward our Easter breakfast. The
bright sunshine, the clear air with
Just a suspicion of the sea breeze in
it, the dropping branches of the pep
per trees overhanging the walks, the
gardens full of bright blossoms, roses,
A%lilies. geraniums, heliotrOpes, made
he walk one ever to be remembered.
Never was the morning OF Easter
more radiant; never o suggestive
FOf its great meaning; never had
Heaven seemed so near. We could
almost seem to see its portals just
beyond the range of shining noun
tains.
The hand clasp at the door, the
welcome of the children, the hearty
greeting of two other beloved North
ern pilgrims, also hidden to the feast,
the fragrant, fower-dccked rooms,
the dainty breakfast table with its
centcr-piece of red ripe Strawberries,
all had such a suggestion of home
and welcome that glad tears sprang
10 our eyes. After breakfast, song
Ind PRAYER lifted our hearts yet high
er. That home altar was Il ARE
preparation for the courts of the
Lords House. We li~ngeringly left
the door saying that Easter norm
ing, always precious, would hence
forth have new meaning to us. 1t
should hereafter be q day for us to
open our home to the stranger with
In our gates. Sweeter than
the thought suggested by Easter
fards should be the invitation to
tome and share with us on this glad
morn our household JOY, our orn-
ng song, to join i'll orr morning
prayer and get, through our home, a
glimpse of the vet richer welcome
that may await us all i'll that bright
mansion our risen Lord has gone to
prepare
There are strangers S~OjOurning in
all our cities, perhaps seeking health
and rest, often lonely and hOmeSick;
there are young men and maidens fan
from the safety and love of home,
toiling in factories, shops and mills,
or clerks in orr stores, with only the
bare walls of their own Don to gaze
upon or the parlOr of some common
boarding house III which to spend
their Sundays. What would such an
Easter breakfast be to them? What
would an hour spent with your pic
lures, YOU books and at your table
with YOU be to their hungry hearts?
| w Oliit Il iAOL ~ q VI IN
pf purity, of peace and love and
great-hearted hospitality they would
carry with them all the vear-One
that would never quite leave their
memOrv-One that might change
their whole lives.
When the glad Easter morning
comes shall it not find in our homes
some of the tempted, the tried, the
homesick ones of earth.-[Correspon-
dent of the Chicago Advance.
WHAT CHOIR SINGERS X PAID.
A Soprano, in an average city, will
be paid, as q beginner, anywhere
from 5000 to $500 per annum. AS
she becomes better known, and is in
more thorough command of her
voice, she will average from $500 to
$500 Boston pays 5000 more per
annum % choir singers than any
bthercitv in my knowledge. Several
sopranos there receive yearly salaries
Of $1,000 and $1,000, and a few
$500.
\ woman with a good contralto
voice will begin at an annual salary
pf 5000 which, if she is successful,
may rise to an average OF $500.
There are two churches in Phila-
Elelphia, | believe, which pay their
contraltos $+0O; but this, in cities
outside of Boston, which as with so
pranoS, average about 5000 higher,
: unusual. And ven a genuine alto
that rarest of things III these days
will command but from $500 to
800 per annum. The Hub, OfcOurse,
Ioes better than this, by adding
5000; but even with this addition,
none of these salaries appear precise
eXtravagant, or to admit of much
luxury III living, and salaries are
rarely increased. Should a rival
church make an offer for n voice, if
he first church is DESTROYS of retain
M 1t, the rivals price is overbid, and
he voice retained.
But this Is the only reason, of
which | have knowledge, for increas-
no salaries. However, it must be
remembered hat this salary is paid
or singing only at two services, and
or attendance at one or two re-
learsals a week. All the rest of the
singers time IS her own to dispose Of
as she pleaSeS. Provided Shei is an
pupil TO her new master, he will send
to her. for instruction, scholars
Whom he has not the time to teach.
Or, she may secure engagements to
sing at different church concerts, or,
LAYING aside her music, NAV take to
sewing, painting. decorating, OF any
Of the many WAYS III which girls are
able to make a living. No work
he undertaken which will in