The morning times., 1896-03-29
EASTER EARTH ANGELS
Rich American Girls Engage in
Deeds of Charity.
No sun upon an Easter Day
Is half SO fine a sight"

old Ballad.
The fairest feature OF Easter is not
the bright sunshine with which the world
is flooded, nor yet the verdure that fol-
lows the sunshine. nor the glad awakening
OF the birds, nor the first promise OF fruits.
There Is a gladder sight than this Ii is
the vision OF the young girl who, having
tasted through Lent, goes out on Easter
eve, carrying with her the fruits OF her
self-denial and sacrifices.
Her Easter offering is spent in bounty for
the poor, and she gives herself on Easter
Saturday the delight OF distributing her
gifts among those VINO so sOrely need them.
Her face as she sets forth is a reflection
OF the Star OF Bethlehem, come down
through many ages and mirroring forth
u likeness OF the Virgins own dear face.
All giving is sweet, but that those whose
training has brought no self-denial, whose
lives are spent far from squalid scenes,
should look through the brOwnstOne fronts
OF their own homes into the houses of the
poor and perceive necessity, speaks for the
soul of woman that toucn OF life which isso
near God
In a lovely boudoir, curtained richly and
hung with tapestries there stands a corner
screened with tan fixture that, though
six feet high, is not big enough 10 hide
what is hrapesi behind il. This Is the boudOir
o. one OF the wealt hest young women
OF New York, and the articles behind
the mysterious screen are packets TO be
taken out to the poor Easter Saturday.
There are square bundles. round bun.
dies. bandboxes and shawl straps. They
hold flanneis. old gowns, shoes, daiuties
and fancy trifles. In nice little book
the owner OF the boudoir keeps the names
OF those she is going TO visit. and along
side she records: Miss X, little seamstres;
likes books and pictures
Opposite another name she writes: Lit
tie Jenny. sick; knits when she has worsted
and needless And so along the list OF
those who need things The money for
the packages was obtained not from the
bank account OF her father. but from the
savings of her own allowance
A very creditable young woman is Miss
Sylvia Green, the daughter Of Mrs. Hetty
Green, the young woman who is cruelty
given no credit for doing good even toherself.
Mrs. Hetty has recently approved plans
for a large church near her own home.
In this church her daughter viii place
the altar cloths, the curtains, the pulpit
decorations and the ecclesiastical Orna-
ments, all the work of her own hands.
But Miss Sylvia does other things,
benefa ctions that rebound still more TO her
credit. She gives little presents, the WORK
OF her own hands. On Long Island there
is a poor farmers wife who shows with
much pride a large lamp shade which Miss
Sylvia Green made for her. II is the show
article of the poor farm rawing-rOOm and
was sent by Miss S ylvia after short stay
upon the farm.
AT Easter Miss Green gives away count
less fancy things. She is busy making them
during Lent. and their destination is not
70 Sbf Fria a whom
has many. but TO the poor.
Great work is done Easter by the chapters
OF Colonial Daughters and revolutionary
societies or women. These danes, with .
highly honorable ancestry, feel it inCum-
bent upon them to bear out their titles
in reality. "NobiesSe Oblge' Is their
motto Easter.
One of these ladies will conduct for a
week q flower mission Here are to lie
sent plants in pots, green growing plants,
and at the last cut flowers. The day be-
fore Easter this colonial descendant viii
go forth, her arms filled with flowers, to
leave her sweet burden in the hospitals and
homes OF the sick. Nearly any one can es-
tabliSh a flower mission, and the chances
of success are certain as long as one plant
is donated; for IL is a mission If one IS
taken 10 the sick.
A very pretty remembrance of an Amerf-
can Easter takes place abroad every year.
You find this memorial service" as 1t
were, III London, in Paris, and upOB the
Nile. At the last named place, where
young Cornelius Vanderbilt is now said
to be enjoying himself in a forbidden love-
ma king, the women OF the American
Colony give away money on Easter week.
They dress up in their best clothes, sent to
the Nile from Paris, and go about among
the Nile babies that lie, today, literally
in the bullruShes, as Moses did. And they
minister to them as Pharaoh's daughter
miniStered to the baby Moses. Here Miss
Whitney, now Paget, and her daughter
celebrated IN American Easter, and here
also the Rockefellers swung an American
flag ana announced lit Easter at home"
Easter goes wherever Christianity travels,
but none know how 10 make the most Of it
as America do. For years Mrs. Mackay's
home in Carleton House Terrace has been
the center OF the American Easter abroad.
The poor came to the basement door and
the rich to the front door, the one to re-
ceive ana the other to enjoy. That GUS
tom, shTUuded a s it is now in black, is still
kept up in the Mackay home in London.
The newest way OF keeping Easter is
open TO the accusation Of affectation, but
goodness can afford TO parade itself a lit
tic. In front or Grace Church, New York
city, there drove up the other day a car
riagc, in front of which danced the most
brilliant blacks in silver harness.
Inside the carriage there was an occu-
pant, but so covered was she with flowers