The Cedarville Herald, Volume 53, Numbers 1-26

«* -- ,’ «»* . '* t r i* ^ ^ 's'>; * * v , »t>», * % - _ - 4 . $ * : ’* - . * t •*■,;■-.»* - « . '-■ p •<* *■ "•#>> 4 3 t &,■**«> * » m* * ■' - 1 / > '-■■ 1 '*• • ; x « g i i >^V4«BNhpw; •“ » g“>~3fc. ad®''- 6 • ,■>%'?v, " ' * V : ‘ / * ' . / > .» By ELMO SCOTT WATSON“ S WJL '3 veud ■the, sixth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Mat­ thew, we find these tiro verses: “And why take,, ye thought, for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow 5 they M l not, neither’ do they spin: - “And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.’' And it. Is these flowers which, more than anything else,' have become the symbols of Easter which we celebrate this year on April 20. As such a sym­ bol the illy lias a double significance. It is one of 'the earliest spring flow­ ers. It typifies the rebirth of nature after the long winter sleep. In its dry, brown bulb life lies dormant dur­ ing the winder and then when spring comes, this life b'egins to stir. First it pushes out the tender green leaves, add then the buds appear. Finally the white blossom .comes forth in all its glory ns the perfect emblem of resur. rected life. Its other significance is a "religious one. its snow-white purity beir^g emble­ matic of the- flawless 1 life Of Christ whose resurrection from the tomb we commemorate On Easter fitly. In fact, no other flower has a place In the re- llgious life and literature Of.the Chris­ tian world to compare to the lily. Yet its glory is not so new as Christtni.’ty, ancient though the beginnings of that religion may seem to us. The Greeks and tile Homans prized It above all flowers and in their ear­ lier civilizations it had already come to symbolize purity and virtue. It was because of the place lilies had won in the popular esteem that they found place iin the early paintings of the Ylrgin. The angel Gabriel was de- >plcted carrying them in annunciation pictures and it is because of this that the most ^beautiful of these flowers, Llllum condidam, most'used .at Easter, is called the madonna illy. Although tills trumpet-like blossom Is the best known of all themembers of the illy family, there are others which are very interesting feven though they do not have such significance for us as the madonna lily. In the high Himalayas In Asia grows a great Illy ten feet tall. Agents of the United States government fouud n magnificent- specimen of illy In China a generation ago—a lily of the madonna type, hat hardier—and brought It to America and they have been offering it to citi­ zens to plant from .coast to const. Most of the lilies that are native-to America are radiant with color. There is the turlt’s cap, for instance, that flaunts the deep yellow of Its ninny blooms through the waste stretches of parts of New England, Great, stal­ wart stalks, sometimes nine feet tall, has the turk’s cap. It may have half a dozen orange blooms at its top, but those who have tamed this plant and given It care have induced it to pro­ vide as many as 40 blossoms. A quite different American flower Is the little trout lily which likes to grow along the streams Or in the deep woods. With the nourishment it has saved tip In Its bulb it starts growing in the enrly spring and is likely to have bloomed before the leaves of the trees have grown to the stage of mak­ ing shade to Interfere with It. A ra­ diant yellow, the trout lily stands out vividly against Its background of green. The blue flag running to purple is another American illy that has found Itself a home In many gardens. The mottled tiger Illy hns been a favorite for many generations. Ifi California the “ leopard liiy lights the heather don," and the late shorn meadow is often red with their bloom. The red lilies of New England, how­ ever, outshine them nil and have in­ spired many a poet of that region. Lucy Larcom spoke o f them as “ red lilies blazing out of the thicket.’' Paul Hamilton Wayne thought that the red Illy “stand* from all her sister flow­ ers apart." Probably the most remarkable lily in the world Is the yucca, or Spanish bayonet, o f the arid plains o f the' Southwest. There the lily becomes a plant that is quite treelike and lives for years, th e lily leaves become harsh, dagger-tipped implements to serve the purpose o f repelling attack. These may Sit close to the ground or, again, they may *taud as high as a man on horseback, . ^ From the cluster of. leaf armor there springs «ow and sgain a tall stalk that may reach like « jagpole Into the desert sunshine, At the top of this stsif there form* and finally m | A n E a s te r F lo w e r 4 “ l o mulct- one petal, myrioils of atoms I . teuoh in itself n planetary system of electrons) must climb and wheel to .their 'exact stations in the desltm.”—State­ ment of tt scientist. 4 Up-whispered by what PowerV. f- Deeper than moon or sun ' I Must each of the myriad atoms of this * flower • '■ i To its :own point: of the colored- pattern run; ' Each atom, train earth’s gloom, t A clean sun-clusler driven I To make, at its bright goaf, one grain of f bloom, I Or fleck With rose One petal's edge In I ■ Heaven? | What blind roots lifted up This sacramental sign. Transmuting their dark food, In this .will cup Of glory, to what Heavenly bread and wine? . . What Music -was concealed. What Logos in this loam, That the Celestial Beauty here revealed Should thus be struggling, to its lost'; home? . ’ Whence was the radiant storm, ■Tho still up-rushing song; That built of formless earth this heavenly :■ form, Redeeming with art, the world’s hlliid wrong. . ■ Unlocking everywhere v : The spirit*# Wintry prison, And whispering from the grave, "Not here! Not herd He Is not dead, The Light you seek It risenI"? * —Alfred Noyes in the Washington Star. breaks into bloom such on assem­ blage of pure white, beli-llke, richly- perfumed, and in every way perfect lilies as nature produce* nowhere else- in a single cluster. It is given to the desert to grow the greatest of nil the- lily-bearing plants despite the fact that the chief habitat of the breed seems to be the marsh. Lilies nil grow from bulbs. This bulb-making capacity of the "iy fam­ ily is one of its. dominant traits. It and the six petals to all Illy blooms are marks of the tribe; Tulips, daf­ fodils, hyacinths, crocuses,'all are ac­ tually, because they spring from bulb*, members of the lily family. But beautiful as are tliese members of the Illy family, there are others which are utilitarian rather than pure­ ly ornamental and which, although like the “ lilies of the field which toll not," do furnish mankind with edible crops. Surprising though It may be, ootanlsts will tell you that some of our common vegetables are In reality “lilies.’’ , There is asparagus, for instance, that is bought in the market tied up in bundles o f many’ stalks, each exactly like the other. There Is nothing about this nsparagu* In this form that would, indicate that it is a lily. Asparagus tip* are but youfig plants Just coming through the ground, If they were allowed-to grow they would throw out tall, llly-Ilko stalks and crown them with elx-tlpped flow­ ers that nfty observer would be able to identify as lilies, The presence o f this commonplace asparagus in an idling family is rather n let down to its pretensions, this, however, is not the Worst, If the truth must be told, the ojolon is a lily, The onion is a lily that has been br$d through centuries for the devel­ opment o f its bulb and the suppres­ sion of its top. so it ha* come about that the bulb may be three inches across and the top so insignificant that, when It has dried Up, it hardly appears at *11. Set when this top Is growing end flowering it is like those delicate plants o f the window SiKS which sometimes are called tube roses, but which actually at * a deUoate, re­ fined and fragrant lily that comes out of the Orient Onions came from the Near East and in ancient days furnished a star. pie food for the rural inhabitants of- Greece and Italy. Not only was gar­ lic a food, but it was-reputed to have medicinal value and to be helpful to flies- stomach in its functions. . These two birth vegetables, the Cin­ derella* of the plant food world, ride- about the earth intruloleadsanfi ship­ loads,- ' T|ie material service they ren­ der IB greater than that of all the oth­ er lilles-put together. One would have to look far In all the relationships of nature to find a contrast more strlk-- ing than that of the Easter lily and. the garlic of the Mediterranean. Even though the lily is the one per-' feet symbol of Enster, there are two others which through the centuries have become so closely associated with this red-letter day in our calen­ dars that we think of them almost as quickly, In thinking of Easter, as we do of the lily,: They are the rabbit and the egg. . The association of the rabbit or hare with Easter has Us foundations in the ancient belief in European and Asiatic countries that the harp is the symbol for the moon, In fact, the Chinese represent the moon as a rabbit pound­ ing rice in a mortar, while Hindu and. Japanese artists paint the hare across the face of the moon. As the tlmo of the Easter festival is governed by the phases of the moon this may be an ex­ planation of tlieir connection. The mythical natural history of the Hindus tells us that hares live on the shores of the lake of the moon, In Swabia the children are not al­ lowed to make shadow pictures of rab­ bits on the wall, because It is consid­ ered a sin against the moon, The colored folk of the southern States have'a strong belief in the pow­ er of the “left hind foot of a grave­ yard rabbit" killed la the dark of the moon. ' In County Warwick, England, if the young men of the town can catch a hare and bring, it to the parson of the parish before ten o’clock on Ens­ ter morning he must give them a cnlfs head, one hundred eggs for their breakfast and a groat In money.' Nowadays the Easter bunny has be­ come so confused with the Easter egg custom that the hares are supposed to lay the many colored eggs the children find on Easter morning. The association of the egg with Easter goes back to certain belief* of the ancients also. Eggs had been as­ sociated with the worship of Ash* toreth, of the Astarte of the Fhoe- i Melons, Isis of the Egyptians, Diana j of the Greeks and Romans and Eostre, , whom the Teutons worshiped in the ; spring. Incidentally, the name Easter is Said by some to he derived from the name of this Teutonic goddess, al­ though others . assert that It was named for an Old pagan spring festi­ val in honor of the sun’s new birth» in the east. The Egyptians regarded the egg as an emblem o f the recreation o f things afid o f man’s regeneration. Then, too, the egg with Its life germ destined to produce a living creature when warmed by the mother lien is easily associated with the idea of the earth blossoming under the warm bud . Since the Resurrection of Christ oc* carted in the Spring, it is easy to see how the Symbol* o f the egg and all - revived life in the Bpringtime cam* to be associated with this event in the history o f Christianity. 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