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WOMEN CT ' ill , ' ' i is ibAQss ,1 OF MIDDLE AGE ptioTccMPhi ccprwcfrrro muoan ntwctrr T 13 perhaps the best evidence of American prosperity Hint tha t'nl ted Htnto has uH-om the (trentest flower Inlying nation oil tho Rlolio. The flower trade reaches It n su preme climax at Knster mid during lug tho week preceding the Joyou holiday millions of dollars ur ex pended for pctaled luiurle which , at this season of the year ro re garded aa necessities by large proportion of our populuatlon. As in other lines of activity, there la disposition to make Vuce Sam In dependent of all th rest of tbe world in the niatter of flowers. For instance, take the cane of Raster Miles. Some years ago nearly all our Easter lilies were Imported in either bulb or bud from Bermuda. Now a considerable por tion of th emblems of purity which go into tbe market each Eastertide are raised on Yankee soil. Although the city of Chicago Is generally accounted the chief rose and carnation market, owing to th great rose and carnation farms near the Wtudy City, there la no reason to dis pute the claim that New York is now the world's greatest flower market The flower trad, in the hole,,le mar, f, kfJ$X '? TOWj vfc XJt J , t V f for pelted plant Is prim I- J feMfcv whdiK ' 3 ! V pally between the grower. 1 ! j II ! I: I'Ke'll1.1; , t It : -' " and the miu.11 n-lall-rs - tho I j i MM YMrM "All 'lVO'V .-.Vl K In? ii proprietors of Urge retail es- V !l ! S C' WWM II tablt.hmenta have their own . I h'j VAV ' C-S- tNv W vhA 7 private source, of supply- l ! fftj Syfik L' t XulWiitfl and at Easter time the mar- W M'M j .jj!l IV' feX'VSg $ V W l ket is crowded with what W &J ' U Mj W'MM 1 V Fd might be termed transient l I Kfi I 5li'lffiR T'l V' W dealers persons who handlo Xs!'! il'l tkJ 'M ipV i !Atti,XAri'SF ia- I i' II v7 flowers as "side line" at i ! I I WX l'Aw I LI III V this season of the year only. JWy fV I CJ1 The market for cut flow- Jr s u Ii Vri r-J era is at the Easter season Y ' If J O even busier than that where I vl' "Jl potted plants are handled ex- jx. il r fifcQ cluslvely. It Is not connect- 'fA i v'jr'Ct4 ( ed with the floral headquar- a )ZM Vr'i) ters described above. In- rw A W rilrJ deed, in New York It la lo- QjJfrMd TjTV J 1 VVS VXl C cated In a wholly different fYlwiUWLti I VS-0v part of the city. The grow- WiJlNllM I XSjSHVn era and sellers have their VV' iHU j VyaTjV rent annually, but many of A VTCX LJ ,1 - ., r mMHira'vv'F 1' -l''- ' 'r? t v 'Vvwej'i" '-"1 I QMA LARGE -E5 --V t II- W-., I . 5cz.r iM it- i 1. if If -- wr,r..r j 7 VfjqU JLIY " "C" V" able of (he picture Is afforded by the operations of the fnrhhmable florists thnniRhout Vnclo Sam's doniulns. It Is estimated that the fittings of the smart flower shops on llroadway and Fifth venue In New York cost In the aggre gate more than $1,000,000 and there are a number of retail establishments each of which does a business of sev eral hundred thousand dollars annually. Whereas the fashionable florist, each of whom mnlntalns one or mora large retail stores and perhaps nu merous booths In office buldllnga and hotels have their own flower farms or growing establishments, upon , whose yield they have a monopoly, they aal dom require the entire output of such a flower manufactory. Oftllmes ther Is a surplus and almost Invariably there are many flowers which do not come up to the standard of perfection demanded by the fashionable trade. This surplus is sent to flower commis sion merchants who sell to the small retail florlnta and ship extensively to tho out of town florists, particularly thoe located In adjacent cltlos. In the establishments of these commission merchants flowers are stored for days in great Ice-cooled chambers, where C'n8 roofs and marble walls keep the flowers for days by reason of the cold n:,l dampness. Incidentally It may be noted that there Is no foundation for tbe common Impression that (lowers which are to be shipped pomo p'isfnnca must b fresh picked. On the con trary, tie most export handlers of Moucr." allmv the blossoms to stand for ffvernl hours In witter er they pre dispatched to their destination. trudt; of the metropolis aggregates up ward of 15,000.000 annually. This trade is virtually the product of the past dozen years. As in all other lines of business which have been characterized by sud den growth fortunes have been made by many of the pioneers in the trade. One retailer who Is now worth several mil lion dollars was lesa than 18 years ago a treet peddler of vloleU at Ave cenu a bunch. I A picturesque phase of the flower trade may be seen at It best about four or Ave o'clock on any morning just be fore Easter In the vicinity of Spring and Canal streets in New York. Here Is lo cated the wholesale market for growing plants, and like its counterpart in other large citlea It is open for business only in the early morning before the hour when the retail flower merchants must open their shops. The aupply of grow ing planta comes from flower growers and farmers who live from the city in tha case of New York they are acattered through New Jersey and along long Island and these growers must leave home in the middle of the night In order to reatu ine wooiesaie mart In time for tha open them Increase their space at Easter time if they can do bo. The floral harvest be gins to arrive, at this dis tributing cen ter about 6:30 o'clock In the morning, most of the posies coming in bas kets and ham pers of varying atze. The cut flower market doe not enter into the calculations of the proprietor of the fash ionable retail establishment. A ha been noted above, he derive hi supply from hi own floral farms or from grower who supply FLOWER LOVCR3 h Mm exclusively. To tho wholesale mart, how ever, come the small florists, the street ven dors of flowers and the proprietors of those temporary flower stands which line tbe prin cipal business streets of every large city at Easter time. Tty half past seven In the morn ing this market I closed and the buyer have dispersed to seek their customers with the day's stock of floral offerings. Some Idea of the magnitude of the Ameri can flower trade may be formed from the fact that more than 1,000 farms are required to supply the floral demand of New York City alone and upward of I H. 000. 000 1 Invested in the flower farms which supply the metrop olis alone. -To carry the enumeration a little farther. It may be noted that there are In Greater New York more tban 400 men and women whose sole occupation I that of flower vendor on tha street. Most of these peddlers of bloesoms are ti recks. A more spectacular The Easter festival Is the florist' golden harvest. The supply of flower at tht sesjion Is never equal lo the demand, but this only help to swell the profit, for not only may higher price be asked, but there Is little danger of overstocking with the attendant loss and waste that under ordinary circumstances eat up much of the profits of the florist's busi ness. One New York florist sell each year more than 50.000 Easter Idle and bis profit may be Imagined when one remember that Easter lilies are purrhased wholesale at from f 10 to 112 per hundred and sell at price rang ing from II to 3 each. Ing at 4:00 or 4: JO o'clock. In every city the at the season of the new birth Physical Religion. To keep up a nice balance of work and weur, and to come out a little ahead cch day, is a good religion. No man ha any rhxht to wear hlmsult out Dr. Kellogg XXX THE FLOWERS OF EASTER J""W"HHEKE are certain churches In Home jrft which are built entirely from tb VH l' '"'awnta of ancient pagan temples, ftf There are rows of columns around 'J,"VM which the worshipers of Jove and ' Diana once thronged. There ate marble buIiiIh that have been hlseled from the st Mues of old gods and goddesses. There Is even a Madonna that, before she was con verted by tho powerful arguments of the Chris tian sculptor, Is said to have been a Venus playing with Cupid. When one turns from these buildings of etono to tho no Icbs strong, though iutariKlble. walls of custom In which wu have houKi-d Christianity, there is found evidence of the same process there. The apostles and t)u early lathers uo more appointed seasons for religious festivals than they gave us ready made church buildings, or even directions for planning such structures. Every day was to them a holy festival and any cave or hovel where "two or three were gathered together In his name" waa a temple. The bat!l!cas and the festivals grew together and In building up forms and customs, as In building the Churches of Koiue, our father quarried almost . exclusively from the ruined religious their faith had superseded. Take the Easter festival, for liiKtance. It has many sources. In the ground plun, so to peak, It 1 merely the old l'asdia, or l'ass over feast of tbe Hebrews, a la witnessed by tbe name It bear among tha Latin nations t'asques In France, 1'asqua In Italy, Pascua in Hpaln. Vhe twelfth chapter of Exodus gives an ac count of tha Institution of the foast. In com memoration of that ulght when the angel of tli Lord passed over the house of the chil dren of Israel and slew tha first boru of tha Egyptians. It was but natural that In the Paa chal lamb tho Christiana should see the pro totype of the I.Binb of tlod whose blood should save his propio on whom It mark waa set. and this was doubly so since Jesus himself, when celebrating with his disciples his last Passover feast, had said: "This bread Is ry body; take and eat: this cup Is the new testtatuept In my blood. This do in remembrance of me." Ho was the feast Instituted, hut as a com memoration of redemption rather than of res urrection. The latter signification grew up around It in Inter times and was InrRely adapt ed to this especial festival from the old pngun customs. A hint of It may be found, however, in thst same twelfth chapter of Kx Jub, where the Iird says: "This month shall bo unto you the begin ning of months; it shall bo the first month of the year to you " In tho new born year there Is always a hint of the doctrine of resurrection, particu larly whi n it comes, as II 01110 did with many nations, at the season of the vernal equinoxes, when Tli N'W Ynr. reviving -M denirt-i, Tn Itionslitful Houl tn MoIIIuiIh rt-llres, Vi.r ihm while hand of Mom-a on lh Touith Puts our. and J-u from trm Uroim! uaplreji It Is the time of renewal, of hope and of re joicing. All things that have In them earth life are echoing the prayer of the poet: Mas in over. Mother April. When th sap I" ulna in stir. All the pugan religions tlreek, llnmon or Gothic were alike disguised nature worship. And In all of them, whether as a New Year celebration or not. there came this festival of flowers, this season of rejoicing in tha resur rection of the earth from winter' death, of the springing anew of grass and grain from It grave. This Is lb old pantheistic meaning that underlies all the spring festival, and who will say that the Easter feast of tha resurrec tion would strike the spirit with tha sam fore If It cam at tha thu of lb falling lai rather than of sprlngT Our own name for tho day, Easter, and the German Ostern give a hint of this other great quarry from which w drew tho material to build tho festival as we know it. (loth words are derived from the namo of tho old Anglo Saxon sr"ddess of spring, Ostara. To tho mind of the pagan conovert It seemed his old familiar festival, but with Its uieuntug broadened and deepened, and he clung to his custom of the profuse use of flowers ol the feast. All were for him lowers of Ostara, but certain ones, from the time of their blos soming, or from their symbolism, enmo to be considered more appropriate than others. The hyacinth, the crocus and the violet are among the blooms of Easter and each wears a legend about Its namo. Hyacinth was a youth bo loved of Apollo, who was sluln by Jealous Zephyrun, tho west wind. Tho crocus, also, was a beautiful boy, who had been trans formed Into a (lower. Only tha daffodil, or Lent Illy, nnd the Easter Illy have acquired a truly Christian significance. Tho dutTodll, coming a It did during Lent, was considered aa a sort of John the Baptist among flowers, the herald of Joy and hope. Home trace the derivation of Its name to "affodilo." from tho old English, mean ing "to come early." Others find tbe name only a corruption of "His" lily." given It be enuso It was supposed to be the flower that dropped from Pluto's chariot as he was car rying off Prosperlne. Hhakespeuro says: h riospeillte. Knr () ftowors now Dial rrl-literi thou lot'st fall V'roui this wiia-oli -(larToitlla That roina tH-fora tha awullow dnra. and tuks Tha wlmla of March with brauly. The Illy is, however, the flower of all flow er that we associate with Easier, and lo get at the root of the reason, we shall have to delve back aa far a the foundation of the pyramid. The lotus was tbe first sacred Illy. Hooted In the earth, growing through the wa ter and called Into being by the sun. It repre sented to tha anclunt Egyptian tha union of the throo elements which. In his belief, made up the universe - fire, water and earth. Iytng with winter, reviving with spring. It typified tho eternal renewal of life from death, tho resurrection, which was one of tho chief tenet of tho religion of Egypt. Throughout tbe east tho lotus Is sacred. Early In tho history of tho church tho lily hc-nino sacred to the Virgin and In every pie tun of the at uiinelntion, tho visitation or other events In the life of Mary the Illy ap pears, usually bearing three blossoms to sym holUe the trinity. As Mary usurped In popu lar tradlilon tho place occupied by Flora, by Previa and by Ostara, gUlng her name to the month of May, which bad been theirs, so she claimed tho flovvrr which from ages punt had been tho symbol of life and the renewing of spring and lud it essentially the flower of the church. The "lady chapels," erected to tho Virgin In such numbers during thu twelfth and thirteenth centuries, nro decorated with carven lilies of various kinds. They were not all of thn type we know as Easter lilies. Thu Illy of tho valley, so often referred to In the Illblo, was an early favorite. Tha lotus wu even used, In some of the earllist work. Hut whatever the lily might be, around It gath ered all the symbolism that had been associ ated with tho name since the beginning of history. Christ, too, bad used the Illy to point a moral. "Consider tho lilies, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they eplni and yet I say unto you that Hulomoti In all his glory was rift arrayed Ilka one of these." 80 Shut when we celebrate the feast of th resurrection which we huvu built up from th quarry of the Hebrew Passover, (he old Now Year festivities and rites In honor of tha goJ (leases of spring, from Flora to Ostara, it la only fair that above all other flower of tha season we should rank th Illy, heir to th symbolism of th lotus of Egypt, flower of th temple of Solomon, sanctified by th word of Christ and carved and palntsd In our churches for ccnturloa aa tba flower of Mar. Need Lydia 13. Pr,kliam's Vegetable Compound Ilrot'kfifkl, Mo. "Two year nsro I was tituiblo to ilo un v kind of work ami only weighed. 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