The egg rolling in the White House
grounds each Easter Monday is a scene noi
reproduced anywhere else in the United
States. The gToundajrthrown open tc
pnblicJte and nurses with
adntUl ages come in the morn
v -. carry baskets of lunch and.
others filled with gayly colored eggs,
which are to be rolled down the grass;
slopes on which the children play, 01
"picked" as the street gamins do fresh
ones. Thousands of children fill the
grounds and play with eggs under ths
EGO ROLLING AT WASHINGTON.
trees until they get hungry and eat the
nara Doiied ovals with their lunches, with
regular picnic appetites. The big band
plays in the afternoon, and the visiting
thousands are delighted with a sight of
the presidential family, who show them
selves on ine piazza witn their mends.
m course ine utue white House chu
dren are chief objects of interest.
His Stat of Mind.
- Dashaway When the contribution
box was passed this morning I suddenly
found that I had nothing but a five dol
lar bill. Of course as it was Easter, and
I had been fasting for forty days, I felt
obliged to drop it in.
Miss Summit How noble of you!
And now, how do you feel about it?
Dashaway I feel as if I shall probably
have to fast for forty days more.
Scrambled EggH.
Every person must have some part of
his clothing new on Easter day, or he
will have no good fortune during the
year. That has been settled from time
immemorial. Thus an old Dorsetshire
poet says:
Laste Easter I pnt on my blue
Frock cnoat, the fust time, flcr new;
Wi' yaller buttons aal o1 brass,
That glittered in the zun lik glass;
Bckaise 'twer Easter Sunday.
