Make dainty screen as described, and paste on each panel a tiny Easter picture (Perry pictures may be had by addressing firm in N. Y. City). Give to Mother on Easter morning.
Church Window Transparency (See [page 77])
MEMORIAL DAY
We give no special suggestions for the celebration of Memorial or Decoration Day. The ideas given under the headings of the other patriotic holidays, as Washington's Birthday and Fourth of July, may be used also for this holiday, but it is not a day for mere play.
If the parents plan to go to the cemetery let the child accompany them and carry flowers, preferably those of his own raising or plucking.
Reading
It would be well also on this day to read some great piece of patriotic literature, either prose or poetry, which will help the older children to realize the great debt which we owe to the preservers of our country, to whom we dedicate this day. Lincoln's Gettysburg address should be read. Also Lowell's "The Present Crisis." "Bugle Echoes," compiled by Francis F. Browne, contains 150 poems of the Civil War, both Northern and Southern.
Badge (Sheets of red, white, and blue paper, scissors, paste)
A simple badge may be made for the children to wear in this fashion: