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The relatives of the late Joaquim Baptista ber to tender their heartfelt thanks to oil friends for their kind sympathy in their bereavement also for the floral tributes and attendance funnierni.
The
at the
THE
April 10, 1941.
An Easter Message By A. J. CRONIN
Author of "Hatter's Castle." etc.
For then, the earth is awakening. Lambs frisk in the green pastures, the trees put forth Their buds. The birds sing again, spring flowers break upon the mossy freshness of the woodland banks. Sap runs anew in the willow shoots, yellow catkins nod in the breeze, the rivers fill the Jush meadows with their music.
New life is everywhere, a sense of brightness and of light.
Light, indeed
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which we blindly seek.
Ah! That is the key for
The very name of Easter, from the Saxon Eostre, emblem of light, betokens the true signi- ficance of the festival, the rebirth of hope in the souls of men.
On Good Friday, the peoples of creation touched the abyss of their dejec- tion. All light was gone, all hope seemed lost!
LIGHT
OF THE WORLD
Then came the cry:
"Christ
is risen! The days of darkness and defeat are past! Christ is risen from the dead!"
BETTE - DAVIS
and
CHARLES BOYER
im
ALL THIS
AND HEAVEN
TOO
Serialised by Harry Leo From the Novel By RACHEL FIELD
THE STORY SO FAR: Mademoi-
And so, this Easter, above all times, we have the invitation to open our hearts to this ever- lasting light, to cast out the selle Henriette, governess in a titied gloomy shadows of despair. To Parisian family, la tried for the mur- let Christ arise, not in the stereo- der of her employer's wife, and typed lip service of clamorous, Field, a young American preachers
acquitted. Through the ald
Henry conflicting creeds, not in plati-she gets a position in an exclusiv tudes invoked to suit the policies New York girls school. Her pupila of politicians, but in sweet tran- discover her past and taunt her. She quillity, secretly, within our is tempted to resign but Field inducer
breasts.
Make no mistake.... this present chaos is no novelty.
of
Mtle. Hen-
her to face them, and by telling them her story, to win their respect. They listen breathlessly as she tells of her trip to Paris-the meeting with young Field and of the Duke and 'Duchess MANKIND, through the ages, and their children and of the insaue
jealousy of the has known war before, and rette saves the life of the youngest,
Duchess. IN those days when my medical virtue so neglected, so forgotten, cruelty, torture, oppression, the but incurs the hatred of the Duchess.
practice took me through the it has ceased almost to exist.
ghastly stalemate of siege, the While she and her children are away Hongkong Telegraph. grimy alleys and dingy one- Nowadays we are gorged with horrors of famine and of plague. the Duke takes his daughter to the theatre and, the governesa decom- roomed tenements of the slums a diet of faith and charity --- a And mankind has survived. pantes them. The datilen blare the of a great city. I had a patient stodgy diet, devoid of vitamins! Mankind has endured these hor-story and the Duchess sees it. who has ever since lived in my From the pulpits of Christen- rors, not of its own seeking; has recollection.
dom we are urged to believe in struggled from the pits into God, to love our highly unlovable which, with cheering and with M state of blind fury at reading
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Cirenaica has perforce leaned towards puzzlement mixed with some anxiety. What do they portend? has been the question generally asked. It is impossi- ble to give an emphatic answer, but certain points can be, and should be taken into considera- tion.
She was an Irishwoman, past fifty, worn, beshawled, wrinkled
as a walnut, raddled with work
and misfortune and sickness.
If ever anyone had learned by heart the bitter lesson of the poor, surely it was she. And
neighbours as ourselves.
drums, it has, been led, has
CHAPTER IV
MADAME LA DUCHESSE, in a
her
her Parls home-and with her came AND through it all, through emerged, triumphant, marching the papers, at once left Corsica- for the Marechal aged father, the sound and the fury of onwards to a gentler era, a
Sebastlant-Abbe Gallard, her con- bathed in Stygian despair. the exhortations, the world lies period of recovery and peace.
In a universe where star light fessor-and her younger children, Isabelle, Berthe and Raynald. On Down in the dark corners of takes a hundred million years to their arrival the children rushed hap- be measured by the pinpricks of who shortly after was summoned to the gloomily magnificent chamber of the Duchess, where she was sternly. confronted by the lady of the house,. her father, and her priest.
morbid certainty that this bar-
"Ever since you have come here,"
"Please let ma speak for myself, Madame! I resent this slander as
now, at the end of a life of many human hearts lies the travel to this planet, time cannot pily to their beloved Mlle. Henrletie, unbelievable vicissitude, she lay barism, this lunatic convulsion one man's allotted span. stricken with a lingering, incur- of a power-drunk autocracy- withdrawals from
TITLER-like Hannibal, Attila, able discase... tuberculosis of call it what you wish is the
Napoleon, Ghengis Khan, and the throat.
final horror, the cataclysm which all who sought to dominate the A harrowing picture, and one marks the twilight of the world, Earth, each in his petty day of the Duchess began with baleful eyes I might have spared you, save an avalanche annihilating all pillage and destruction acclaim and voice, "you have carried on a deliberate campaign to steal away for the fact that it provides me that is good and beautiful in ed as Moloch, Precursor of Mil- from me everything I love! But, oh, with a parable.
life, sweeping mankind irrevoc- lennium . . . is no more than an
that you dared plan this latest insulti illusion, a fleeting irritation, a That while I was away you flaunted For this old woman made no ably to its doom,
your hold over my husband in public, moan-about-her-wretchedness. Humanity, bloody beneath re- gnat alighting for an instant on for the King and all Paris to see!" Whenever, on my professional peated bludgeonings of fate, a glacier, when viewed from the visits, I attempted a word of bound by the chains of tyranny, standpoint of eternity. awkward sympathy... making befuddled by the fog of battle, The human soul, imbued with a truce with my conscience, na bemused by the crass ineptitude, hope, is indestructible. No wea- it were... she had always a the lying promises of its leaders, pon forged by man or devil can smile, a bright shake of her can see no farther than this near ever vanquish it.
Amidst the savagery and head, and the same incorrigible horizon. Humanity, in short, has -unconquerable reply:
lost the power to hope!
beastlinces of war, the heels of
"Ah, now, doctor! What's
And so, to-day, it would appear tramping armies cannot stamp your worry? Sure, there's al as though the dictum of my old out the seeds of nobility and slum woman holds a message; a truth. Beyond the insane tumult ways to-morrow!"
special, precious message, am- of the conflict there lies the pro- It wasn't her courage that plified and reinforced by this mise of the skies. struck me though God knows present season of the year.
Gentleness and kindness are she had enough of that! Nor "There's always to-morrow!" immortal. The tyrant's bones will one day rot, and from that mination, expressed with the THAT indeed, is a thought festering corruption, will spring flowery romanticism of her race, which is appropriate to any an Easter snowdrop.
IL must be remembered that Britain, in her Mediterranean and African campaign has been faced with three responsibilities. Firstly, the safeguarding of Egypt; secondly, the destruction of the Italian
in East Africa: thirdly, the needs our Balkan Alles. It has been im- possible to conduct that campaign without taking cognisance of these. three factors collectively. Hence, the brilliant offensive in the Western in which Graziani's huge and Desert in
equipped
army was routed, didly.
to be a prelude both
of the Africa which has finally destroyed the Italian empire, nind to the release of certain troops
the impending Balkans war.
ofccessful completion
to the campaign in
for
Last
It now seems clear that General Wavell set himself time-table to which he and his troops have adhered with almost miraculous precision His skilful disposition or troops and his strategy cannot be challenged, and because he has proved his worth, confidence in his judgment, remains unlimpaired.
The knowledge that Nazi mechan- ised and Infantry forces in сол siderable numbers have been able to land in Tripoli from Sicily is unpala- table, and would be unrealistic to ignore the potential danger of the present advance by Axis forces In Cirenaica. But this, of liself, does not necessarily change the essentials of the Mediterranean
and Middle East situation. The
original Wavell a
ad- vance in North Africa was primarily and almost exclusively for the pur- pose of crushing and defeating an It was not designed to capture hold comparatively unimportant desert wastes, and harbours which had been blasted beyond usefulness. The purpose was accomplished; the threat to Egypt was dissolved and the subsequent reduction of the rest of Mussolini's overseas possessions realized.
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of
The withdrawals from Cirenaica are obviously strategien in design; they are cesting us but Ittle in men or materials; meanwhile the British Command can make Its plans for full resistance in its own time and choos ing its own place. The successful con- clusion of the East African campalga to retense for use elsewhere "blooded" British British soldiers, whose own equipment has been reinforced by huge quantities of captured material; and it is conceivo- ble that these will be the man who will stop the Axis advance in North Africa when and where it is desired. It is in this perspective that the British withdrawals from Cirenaica should be viewed.
yet her wry, invincible deter-
to witness the breaking of an- Eastertide: when Nature holds Remember, remember, on the other dawn.
its breath in expectation... not darkest day of all, Christ will It WAB something deeper, in fearfulness, but in joyfulness rise again in the hearts of men! rarer: the shining practice of a and hope.
There is always to-morrow.
Why Easter Eggs and
Hot Cross Buns
much or more than you do,"
"Do you realise what this slander as you call it, implies?"
"It is all too clear "Then you admit it."
Was
"I admit nothing, Madame. · If you don't choose to belleve me, you must believe facts-in this house, which is infested by Mine, Maillard, and your other spies, my every movement is
Duchess known." Here the called from the room and her ancient father insisted that should the gover- ness go, it would only give credence to the ugly gossip. He said that from then on his daughter and son-in-law the rumours dled away. would be seen together oftener, until
Mile. Henriette agreed to stay but
as she came out she heard the
frenzied voice of the Duchess, "And it is not enough that you humiliate me at home, without doing it in. public? Is it not enough that she is without
my children's govpanion?" AS
making her your
Henrietto hurried past she heard the voice now shrill and pleading, “Have pity on me, Theo. If you have done this to punish me, believe me I am well corrected! Come back to me."
Mlle. Henriette was in her room in a tumult of agitation and packing to leave, when the Duke appeared, his handsome face drawn und hag- gard. "Mademoiselle" he sald des-. perately, "you mustn't gol"
To suppress an established custom is twenty-five sovereigns wore substitut | It was impossible not to comply with notoriously difficult, and this fact was ed.
the request very modestly made by a recognised by the carly Christian Ön Maundy Thursday, too. the set of nymphs in their best apparel, and fathers. Thus, instead of. trying to Sovereign used to wash the feet of the several of them under twenty, I wish- abolish the heathen festival of Eostre, poor. At Greenwich, in 1572, Queen ed to see all the ceremony, and scaled "You shouldn't come here now, n Saxen goddess, they wisely preferred Elizabeth washed the feat of thirty-nine myself accordingly. The group then Monsieur! There is already enough 10 imbue the feast with a now and poor people. The number was govern- lifted me from the ground, turned thej trouble." Christian spirit. And so it comes ed by the reign of a monarch. This chair about, and I had the fellelty of a about that the tradition of Easter washing ceremony was last performed salute from each. I told them I sup reaches back to pagan times.
by James IL
"I beg of you, to remember the posed that there was a fee for each children... Raynald who owes you Further examples of this early Chris- The tradition behind the old Easter due upon the occasion and was answer- his life. Louise, Isabelle, Berthe, than policy in connection with Easter custom of "heaving" obscure. ed in the affirmative, and having satise who have learned to trust you!" are not wanting. Our hot cross buns "Heaving" was practised_more_pact-fed the damsels in this respect they at Ensier are cakes which the Saxons cularly in Lancashire, Straffordshire withdrew to heave others.
the
At this:
had in honour of their goddess Eosire, and Warwick. It I said originally time I had never heard of the custom, "They are young-they will for- The Christian clergy, who were unto have typified
Resurrection, but on inquiry I found that on Easter Ket," she answered in passionate de- able to prevent the people from eating, and the custom prevalled unil Monday, between nine and ten, the fence, "There are some things that sought to expel the pakubism by mark-the beginning of the eighteenth cen- men leave the women in the same it is useless, to fight against, Mon~. ing them with the Cros,
tury. By then, however, it had become manner, as on Tuesday, between the sieur, and one of them is another Again, the Eastern egg carries on a 50 rough and vulgar u pastime as to be same hours, the women the men." woman's jealousy! She hates mel In Brilliant lighting was a fenture of the It will be better for all of us. She festival tradition which has had its forbidden by the magistrates,
Brand's "Popular counterpart in all parts of the pagan description of the practice by a Me cording to Home, the Paschal Taper at
Antiquille,"
nearly Christian ritual at Easter. Ac will be happier! And perhaps, in world.
Thomas Loggan, of Vasingħall-streef, in Westminster Abbey In mediaeval times the peace ggg" quoted?—
walghed three time, you and sho...” hundred posinds. was presented by each monk to friends, "I was sitting alone last Easter But perhaps the most curious Easter neighbour or stranger, early in the Tuesday, at breakfast at the Talbot, in Festive belief was that connected witle
"She loves you, Monsieur." morning of Easter Day, with the blesa-Shrewsbury, when I was surprised by the "dancing fun." Soon after dawn "What kind of love that drives me
the entrance of all the French servants on. Enster Day. It was asserted, the to madness!"
log of "Pax vobiscum."!
"Never."
On Maundy Thursday tradition de- of the house handing in an armchair, sun could be acen dancing in the hen."I shouldn't have presumed to ereed that the monarch should dis lined with white and decorated with vens in honour of the Resurrection. speak of love at all, Monsieur, I tribute gifts of gold, frankincense, and ribbons and favours of different The traditions from which this baller have no right, and I ask you to for- myrrh amongst the poor at the Chapel colours. I asked them what they want arose must surely have been of great get it Royal St James's. But as the years ed; their answer was that they came antiquity stretching back, perhaps, to passed these offerings gradually degens to heave me. It was the custom of the the days of sunworship. At any rate, He pleaded in the name of the chil- erated in valuo, -tantil -în 1860, - at the place, on list morning, and they hoped the Ides of the dancing sun was widely dren and she consented to stay on. suggestion of tho Prince
"'Consort," that I would take a seat in their chale, accepted.
(To be continued on Saturday).
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