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Easter Eggs for Mother and Child.

tickets to impossible sights and entertain
ments. Jokers go to the expense OF put
ting fake ads in the daily papers. Their
return is to loaf round the spot. enjoying
1t. Thus
Beer Garden OF the Sucking Kitten
rue du Nieux-Pont de Sevres. -. This
famous old establishment will be re-
opened under new management the after
noon of April I. The public is invited To
a strictly gratuftous entertai nment. lunch.
punch, inauguration of the grottoes. fire
works. st. LaZare train or ST. German
tram
Tickets ito visit the interior of the
obelisk OF Luxor keep hundreds of inno-
cent Parisians. even. blocking the Place
de la Concorde. The obelisk is full."
says the happy policeman.
punches of newcomers. The obelisk is
fulI.'' the gathered crowd tells in impor-
tant whispers. when will 1t be empty
some one gathers nerve to ask. '''I do
not know" says the policeman. Even
when they learn that the obelisk is full of
stone they hang around for the delight Of
hearing others ask. I'VE wish to visit
the INTERIOR
Complete collections of these vulgar
catches. packed inside an enameled paste
board mackerel that costs 81. ~. make
smart April fools to send to laughing
ladies. They consider it amusing pastime-
when the obvious cost of the fish proves
your intentions liberal-to unpack and
read them aloud In the pink-lit tearoom.
to pass them from hand to hand. Here
one for you. Nel," or THE very thing
for Jeannetter'-all those absurd sur
prises. from the beautifully engraved So
ciety invitation in which DIR. Henri de
Rothschld begs the pleasure of your pres
ence at the inauguration of the Ducos
vacuum-milkers" at the famous St Ger
main hygienic dairy farm connected
with his honored name. to numbered par
quet tickets to a Sylvia ballet matinee
at the Grand Opera. which never gives a
matinee, ''interspersed with a lecture by
Count Robert de Montesouiou."
April-fooing is a good taste in Paris
provided you accompany it with valu-
able and pleasing gift. The confectioners
Will sell you great canvas gold bags. such
as the banks use. apparently packed full
You actually feel the edges of the coins
protruding. and. untying the bay. you
really do come first on Let of loose gold
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gious feaStS--it runs ii yet-whereby East
er comes irregularly. But there was moth
ing 10 confuse the farmers barley SOW
ing as long as the year began on a fixed
date. Romulus made it begin March /,
Caesar changed it to January /. and
Chariemagne shifted it to March ! again.
1t was all right Between the first day
of the year and the spring equinox the
number Of days had been always constant
under each great lawgiver's system. but
for the sioW-Srowing discrepancy of the
sun. already mentioned.
But when. in the twelfth century, the
Christian world transferred New Year
from Charlemagnes March to Holy
Saturday the lunar year got in its fine
work. Holy Saturday, then as now. might
fall anywhere between March 81 and
April "a
New Year was no longer fixed date for
centuries. In England. where they came
to fix it on March 10, the confusion was
we'll avoided that the change to Janu-
airy was not made until 1752. But in
France its miX-up with the solar dis
crepancy had grown troublesome that
Charles TX. eighteen years before Pope
Gregory'S reform. deAreed that New Year
should again fall on January ], as in the
lime of Julius Caesar.
1T upset New Year gifts tremendously
which brings us to April fool
For centuries every one got his New
Year gifts between March % and April
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tigurines. fragile china bonbon boxes. sill
Yer bonbon boxes. powder and puff boxes.
little git-bronZe objects. lace glove hand
kerchiefs. solicited perfumes.
Then YOU buy Your nests of Satfn-cov-
cred eggs. Ten eggs. ten objects. if you're
mean; or if they're cheaper. twenty.
One egg can hold a dozen tiny. tiny
miniature cnameed prouZes for the man
tel. pigs. eats. ROSTERS. pups. lions. tigers
and a little child To lead them. Into an
other egg you can put parasol handle
in pink quartz, blue jade or amethyst.
These are not nests. One eggs enough,
if II contains a solid gold buckle. or a
dozen miniature books the size of your
thumb Joint. or a gold bali perfume
squirter the size OF a marble.
OF course. you can put them inside of
fish and call them April fools. When the
The boulevard is full of eggs. The boule-
ward is full of fish Eggs as big as your
head In the morning. with compartments
for silverware. fine china. toilet articles or
new art things IN tainted gold. block tin.
degraded silver or pink copper. There are
eggs as tiny as her finger nail. carved
Jade. to hold an unset jewel And there
are gigantic. scintillating mackerel. long
enough to hold umbrella, parasol and ZEN
cas-, the umbrella-parasol between the
two. I'm case it rains or shines.
All of which is far from the standard
April fool of the less pretentious classes,
a stale mackerel sent collect" in a neat
wooden box. The stationers windows are
full of gay cardboard mackerel with hooks
in their mouths. to be attached to prom
enaders' coat tails. printed large: Il am
incapable. Il am betrayed or lost.
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Won Splootzenheim, "A clever and lovable
young. German naturalist. whose sad fate
threw a gloom over all of u.s.
1.-The way these gorilla hunts always
terminate Is this: They chase the gorilla
up tree after they've located him. and
then. while he sits up there combing his
hair something. why. they spread an
enormously strong net OF inch rope and
leather thongs below the tree. and then
they sit down for three or four days and
wait for the GORILLA to come down into
the net.
The gorilla, of course, always comes
down. The gorilla never knows a thing
about any net, or any people thatve
been hanging around waiting for him to
come down. until he finds himself en-
meshed in the net Then he begins to
snort with rage. and proceeds to tear the
awfully strong net into ribbons, as if it
were composed of SO much darning cotton
Just when the gorilla is through with
tearing the net into little bits of pieces.
why. poor young Herr Won Splootzenheim
the clever and lovable young German nat
uralist, is always dancing around with a
camera trying to get snapshots of the
gorilla in his foaning rage. The gorilla
doesn't like that snapshot comedy. il
seems, and SO he always makes direct for
Herr Won SplootZenneim There are plenty
of other members of the party standing
around 'transf1Xed with fear and all like
that. But nix. The gorilla doesn't want
any of the others. He wants the German
or nobody. and he always gets him.
Wraps his long hairy arms around the
poor young Teller. and there's a hideou%
sound of the grinding. in-bent ribs, and
then we all turn our faces away to shut
out the horrid sight and then. having
completed his devlish work, why. the
gorilla scampers off into the jungle, and
when we go to where Herr Won Sploot-
zenheim lies. why, we find him quite
quite dead. That's two quites, and, of
course. he's deadern door nail II
there were only one quite maybe there'd
be some chance to revive Linn and pull
him through, but the two quites always
settle his hash.
Then we're getting. too. with all sorts
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CARLTON WASHNGTONS HEADQUARTERS SAVED POSTERITY

just before and Immediately after the dis
astrous battle of Brandywne had shown
the hard pressed commander the futility
Of further attempts to keep the victorious
hosts of Lord Howe out of Phiiad elph'a
and only a few weeks before the eXas-
perating defeat of Germantow had all
but reduced the patriotic army TO panic,
it was then that the Continental soldiers
encamped on the Queen Lane plateau.
There were II GO soldiers in this motley
army. ill-fed. alarmed and still worse
clothed. They were mainly from New
Jersey. Pennsylvania. New York, Mary
land Virginia and North Carolina.
According TO an entry III the jou.nsl
of Adjt. Cen Timothy Pickering, Off
Ger of Washington's s.aff, the continental
army reached this camping ground Fri
day. and Washington at once took up hi.
quarters in Carlton the first day of Az
gust. 1iIi.
Washington knew that the enemy was
a the capes OH the Delaware planning to
attack Philadelphia. lie came to Queen
Lane to prepare a plan for the defense OF
the city.
Sunday. September Il. the army having
repaired their arms ard received ammuni-
ton, marched from their camp and moved
toward the enemy. Twelve days Ia .er
came the battle of Germantown.
Gen. knyphausen. after the battle of
Germantown. took possession OF Carlton.
and made it his headquarters. stabling his
horses where only rev weeks De1ofe
those of the continental commander had
been.
The original structure still remains.
for the owners have guarded with
jealous care the rough walls which
were honored by the presence of the
father of his country. its greatest general
and its first chief executive.
The room in which Washington had his
quarters. where he lived. ate, mel his
officers and planned out his campaigns.
had been kept in much its original condi-
ton. and is filled with colonial furniture.
relics Of Washington and host OF in
teresting relics of the early days of the
nation.
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Rod-plated chocolate praines she is
fooled
or send her Easier Sunday great
satin-covered pasteboard egg hand paint
ri. IF its contents are less valua BILE
tran a dozen pairs Of gloves she will be
fooled even worse.
IT IS the fault of the sun and moon
Why is an April fool" Civilization was
long perfecting a calendar to keep step
with the sun. The apparent solar ellipse
turning slowly, the equinoxes not being
fixed points YOU remember how the civil
YEAR of Romulus got so far ahead that
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historic period been more carefully guard
ed than Carlton. Mr.. Smith and Mrs
Newhall. residing there now. really hold
ii in trust for the public. They are ever
cheerfully ready to show visitors through
and in their living habits they have borne
some minor inconvenience rather than
change the lines of a home whose begin
nings date all the way back to the early
days of the eighteenth century.
The tract of land on which Carlton
stands can be traced back without inter-
ruption 10 John and Ann Lowther. to
whom il was granted by William Penn i'll
the closing years of the seventeenth cen
tury.
In 1891 James Turner bought the prop
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erty. which he in turn sold to John Ash
mead. By 1910 the amount of land in
the remainder having in various sales
been separated from the main estate.
1t came into the Smith family in 1910.
Cornelius Smith being the purchaser. and
since that time it has not been permitted
TO get out OF the family.
In the rooms which the laborers rake
and AK were to reduce to crumbling
ruins the great father of his country
laced pr )blems which would have broken
the courage of heart less strong.
In August, llT, few months before
the ragged barefoot army was to take
the winter encampment at Valley Forge.
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Distribute fifty times more eggs than his
predecessors: and il the mobiles accepted
them with hidden disappointment. vast
mutitudes Of enthusiastic common peo-
pie at the church doors of Sens. Pontoise,
Tours and Paris struggled for them. as
for royal decoration. and they set them
proudly on the mantelpiece as proof Of
high relations with the sovereign So do
common people in our day cherish the au-
tograph-p photo of Roosevelt that Loeb
sent them. probably by mistake.
Who can foresee starts OF luxury and
pride? Previous to Louis X the Pari-
slams had nicked Easter eggs for keeps,
rolled them down Mount ST. Genevieve
like the kids of Washington, d. c.. and
eaten them UP clean by Pentecost. Now,
the royal stripe Of gilt started them.
first. boarding.
Middle-class Paris families could show
rows OF royal eggs, one for each year. on
the mantelpiece.
Secondly. they began issuing social
souvenir and other pride-laden Easter
eggs, too splendid to be eaten, even on
the years of births and marriages..
Until. under the reign of Louis XIV,
when the greatest painters, notably Wat
teau and Landret. spent weeks and weeks
in advance decorating Easter eggs that
sell today for fabulous prices = fragile
masterpieces packed in cotton-that the
great revolution itself came just in time
to stop a sinister accumula alton. Paris
was getting full of stale eggs
Therefore. since the revolution. Easter
eggs for eating are just colored red wit h
rochineal. while gift and souvenir eggs.
like the mackerel. are wisely constructed
of pasteboard. silk satin covered and
decorated by girls who have taken pa int
ing lessons somewhere.
Surprise nests are popular with those
who cannot hope for jewelry in a small
egg of navy-blue morocco. AT the ''artiCle
de Paris counters of the big department
stores you buy the junk that tempts you.
job-lot morocco miniature photo cases.
dozens of handpainted porcelain but
tons. ostrich plumes, gloves and perfum-
cry. manicure sets. delicate little bisque
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Julius Caesar had to add eighty-tive DAYS
10 the year r. &. A. to bring the COM
mencement of spring back 10 the YER
nal equinox. Sixteen hundred years later
II was up TO Pope Gregory NIII to turn
The clock back. The equinoxes were ar
irving ten days ahead of the calendar
So he cut ten DAYS out of the year los.
and reformed the century leap years
But II will begin again il 1000 years.
merely mention it i'll passing. Our real
affair is with the moon.
Aprl-fooling is due To the moon butt
ing in. The church had long been run
ming lunar year TO determine certain reli-
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ground on which Carlton stood. They
needed the space: they couldn't get alon..,
without ii. Sentiment was all right, but
if the city was to have pure water other
things would have to be sacrificed. so the
owners were notified that they would have
10 prepare to vacate.
Neither the protests of the owners nor
the bitter opposition of the Germantown
History Club ayailed to alter the decision
of councils that both the house and the
magnificent trees that surround II must
give way.
The owners, Robert F.. Smith and his
sister Mrs. +. S. NeWhall then occupying
the mansion. were forced from their beau
tiful old homestead. in which they had
not only the pride of ownership. but
which they had preserved with reverence
because of its association with the father
of his country
They obtained "A new house and spent
couple of thousand dollars in arranging
the splendid collection of curos which
they had assembled during their time of
residence in the historic halls OF Carl
ton.
But meantime even though they had
removed, and Carlton was city property
according to the law and iii mark for
the work of the destroyer, they never
gave up the fight to save il.
The Historical Society had it guarded
during the period 1t was in the hands of
the city TO see that no vandalism was
perpetrated until the final sacrifice came.
Renewed pressure was brought to bear
on the city authorities. and finally the
feeling became strong that the design
ers of the filtration plant were ordered to
readjust their plans in some such way
that il would not be necessary to tntrench
On the grounds of Carlton.
The method by which this could he done
WAS finally solved during washington s
birthday week. and the owners are now
back in the property. and have IL In eX-
actiy the condition it was.
Never has Il mansion spared from
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dltration plant intended TO purify water
10 be carried into Philadelphia The war
over the property has ragged for matter
Of eight years. and until month ago i.
looked as if the superb old mansion was
surely doomed
But the spirit OF Washngton's birthday
saved the picturesque relic. Those who
mad been protesting against the sacrilese
concentrated their arguments on councils
during the week OF February "a. when the
,elebra lion in honor of the father OF his
country had been filling the popular mind.
and by thus hitting al the right moment
they succeeded in saving the venerable
mansion where Washington had his head
quarters before he moved his troops out
to the bleak heights of Valley Forge.
and entered into the most dismal and APP
parentiy helpless period of the combat
for freedom
When the suggestion was first made
that Carlton. a colonial relic. must give
way 70 the filtration plant tile idea was
not taken seriously. 1t is located not far
from Germantown in section of the
Keystone state which is rich I'm memories
of the colonial DAYS. and where the relics
have been treasured with most jealous
care
But the architects and engineers of the
lily decided that they had 10 have the
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Hunting Articles

crocodile. and there are no allgators in
africa that ever | heard Of and I've been
hearing of things for quite a spell now. |
sure have.
The gorlla-hunting stories are all Just
exactly alike. | notice. Same gorilla
hunting stories that | used to read fully
thirty years ago. mostly in English mag
aznes of that period. 1t appears tia 1
the young German naturalist accompany
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ing the gang on a gorilla hunt always
gets il in the neck on these occasions.
Its wonder they wouldn't, If even for
the sake of variety, hand the bone
crunching finish to the Dutchman or the
Englishman or the American or even one
of the more or less useless natives ac-
companying these gOrilla-hunting outfits.
But they don't. They never do. They
always reserve that hideous fate for Herr
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coins that hide the box lid: for the stiN
bag Is an April-fool box like any other
And the loose coins? They may be real
II that Is your fancy: otherwise they arc
gflded papier mache frauds. so besutifull,
initiating the current four-dollar gold
piece that our Treasury sleuths would
confiscate them. Their chief use is tn
ApTil-fool boarding school girls
/ have even seen jewel cases apparently
packed full of the delightful trinkets that
Marguerite in the opera wanted so badly
hut II was only shallow trayful of the
rubies. sapphires and pearls they now
initiate so remarkably. Beneath were
so worth Of the inevitable chocolates.
and the entire April-fool outfit came to n
trif1e Of only s3a
You see how easily II is done. Easter
egg gifts or fishy April-fools. they are
INTERCHANGEABLE acceptable. provided that
the same expense is put upon them.
STERLING
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STORIC Carlton, a
beautiful colonia
homestead at Queen
Lane. Pa, dssoci-
ated with memories
of " ashinGton, 1T
the most crucial
period of the revo-
luton, has been
saved.
K was almost
swept way 10
make room for a
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think it was. an alligator-get that. ALI
gator-crept steathily up behind a boy
jungle beaten who was sitting log
picking thorn out of his foot and COB
bled the, dnge up at one mouthful. and
then beat it back into the roily. bubbling
streamlet. Well. that was pretty sad all
right enough, but that alligator must
have been a crocodile. There's a heap
OF difference between an alligator and
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You want to
\ prii fool an
American girl stu
dent in Paris send
her between March
-, and Easter a
magnificent paste
b o ard mackerel
Eiittering with col
ors and enamel. If
its contents are
more valuable than
eighteen carat
t,- -ln &c
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4 RSHALI p. WILL
DER. the enter
tainer, lives in a
young palace of his
own down here
" n en- h e j sn' [
working. Met him
yesterday after
noon as he pedaled
along on his board
walk bicycle. He
had some shrewd
views about big
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or, drunk or Send me home.' or
Kick me-
The postcard trade issues trick-sur-
prises Pull the expensive looking post
card from its tissue-paper envelope and
a coiled wire sends the whole business
flying. Or YOU can buy hand written love
letters. proposals. notices to quit. or the
most realistically filled-up CHECKS on non
exis; ent banks.
a great trade is done in free admission
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A PRIL Fishes and Easter
1 \ Eggs in Artistic Paris
And the Origins They Stand
For-Where Enameled Paste
board Mackerel May Hide
Valuable Gifts-And Hand
painted Satin Eggs Con-
tain Only Candy-Expensive
April-fooling.
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But those who found the douoie CAIN
too nervr. as the years rolled on. evolved
April fool gifts
All April fool catches. likewise. have
this origin in the disappointed expecta-
lions Of the greedy. Around April l. by
centuries of habit, the whole social fabric
was out hunting gifts. So it taught hyp-
ocriticaI willingness-to-oblige lesson
to send It upon fake errands, for John
Collins t'.Mansieur Petit-Jean" or "a. gen
tleman from Paris'o or a pint OF hun'e dc
coude telbow grease instead Of huile de
cade tiuniper oil that cures the itch
ApriI fool gifts took q fishy form ~
the fault Of the sun. In April the sun
quits the Zodiacal sign of the hshes; ana
as the mackerel then abounds beyond all
became the April fool fish. It had al
ready a bad-enough name. from its varie-
gated scales recalling HARLEQUIN. the Drill
liant but unprejudiced darling Of the
ladies' So. between the two to refer 10
the gills or fins of a well-set-up young
fellow is to insinuate almost a fortune
hunter So sending his April hsh hlied
up with chocolate creams to married
young Partisan does not mark them
"Without Prejudice" the motto of the
mackerel.
Easter eggs lend themselves to no such
aqIiNOcatlOnS. Nicolas t-eTlSc TSdu III
Aelius I.ampridus that a hen belonging TO
the father of Alexander Severus laid
red egg on the day when that child. des-
tined to he emperor was born.-which
anecdote displays the red egg as a pagan
sign of supreme power. And Easter eggs.
he says. recall at the spring equinox the
mysterious Towering OF life, which Is an
ancient symbol. merely continued by the
church.
The Able Coignard. however. sees in
Faster eggs only a Christian symbol of
the resurrection. He believed the
simple joy of eating eggs-of which the
middle age faithful had been deprived
along with meat during Lent-suff1cient
cause to color them with the ancient
reral purple for Easter Sunday.
al went we'll so long as the Paris pop
nlatrSa merely dyed Its Easter eggs in
beet JUICE. 1t mattered nothing that the
ancient kings OF France gilded them to
distribute among the mobiles of the court.
Good Louis XII however. was a kingly
democrat before the Bonapartes. He
found it joke to humble his naughty
mobiles by coioring the royal Easter eggs
with plebeian beet juice, with mere stripes
of royal gliding.
The economy in gliding permitted him to
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Special Correspondence Of The star
ATLANTIC CITY, April 3. 1909.
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2.ron the day before Easter. and New
Year gifts in old-tme England. as in
France TO-DAY were for all servants
clerks dependents. hangers-on a serious
lump-sum addition to salary-quasi-legal
When New Year was moved to January
these with all feudal retainerS. farm
hands apprentices and poor relations. set
I'D howl that began March ~ 1850.
In England the howl was set VI two
centuries later when the same change
was effected and in other countries in
the wears between. happened, but the
howl was the same howl
Ry March - all children and grand
children. big and little: nephews, nieces.
cousins even beaIteous young wives and
engaged girls. joined in the howl for the
customary New Year gifts.
BY April I. therefore. most heads of
families. to buy peace. began 10 cough up.
What" Why. moderate gifts. to keep re-
cipients patient until January /.