The San Francisco call., 1898-04-10

or red calico No french nurses accom- pany them, carrying eggs with gilt pictures, but they can roll their eggs and themselves on the green grass and soil their frocks and trousers to their hearts content and they will enjoy the holiday as much as their more for tunate companions. Usually the moth- CTS of these little men and women come with them, tired faced women, per haps, looking as though it had been many long day since they had en- joyed such a time. Here and there are little groups of mothers and older sis terS, talking together pleasantly, but keeping watchful eyes to see that the little ones do not get lost in the crowd or stray too far away.
 It is a good -natured crowd The big policemen standing around possess no terror for the little ones on egg-rolling day. They know that all big policemen are for on Easter is to keep big reople from interfering with little ones who are rolling eggs. And when the little people get lost now and then the big policemen are there to t-ke them In charge and tell them not to CT until their mothers or sisters find them again. And there are great rivalries among the children. Some of them are regular little gamblers. One little fel- low gets hold of very hard egg and he
 
 quaintances or acQuaintanceS he finds and wins their eggs from them until finally he strikes some other little fel- low who has harder egg than his, and then he loses a lot of eggs.
 And some of the little rascals gamble on what is a sure thing, with a china egg, sized and painted to resemble a genuine egg, or with a hens egg run full of plaster of paris they will go a arO1In6 and of pOI,rSe win al tho they contest for, until some sharp fel- low finds out the game they are play ing. As the day advances and the chill dren get hungry the peanut man and the popcorn man and the candy man at the gates do a thriving business, while at noon many are the little groups un- der the trees. sittin- around on blan- kets and shawls and eating lunches, for they are making a regular ~icnic of it and staying all day.
 President Harrison's two grandchil- dren witnessed, with great enjoyment, the egg-rolling, from the porch of the White House facing toward the Wash ington monument and looking past and across the Potomac to Arlington, the former home of General Lee, but where now are spread the silent tents of a vast host of the Unicn army who have passed across to the great beyond.
 President Cleveland's two little girls. Ruth and Esther. were real little dem ocratS. They took their own eggs and went out among the crowd of happy children, and they rolled eggs with the other children, as common clay as their associates. not the children of the Pres ident of the United States, but the chil- dren of an American citizen. Perhaps little extra watch was kept over them, but they didn't know it and they thought that Easter Monday was the happiest day of their little lives
 There was a time, however, when the children of Washi: ton did not roll eggs in the Presidents grounds. Not that they did not roll eggs, though. Oh no. They have always rolled eggs on Easter Monday. But they used to roll them in the Capitol grounds, down the steep terrace which was on the west front of the Capitol. Then there came