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CHERUBINI 



one to watch carefully for its much broader 

 leaves and the disagreeable odor of leaves and 

 bark. Yet the birds strip the fruit from the 

 choke cherry trees, and so their seed has been 

 widely distributed. 



DESIGNS FOR BOOKLET 

 Suggested designs for cover page of a school 

 booklet devoted to the cherry. 



Cherry Brandies, Cordials and Remedies. 

 Opposed to the choke cherry we have the wild 

 black cherry. The tree grows large and spread- 

 ing. The juice of its bitter-sweet, purple-black 

 fruit forms the basis of all old-fashioned home 

 remedies for "that tired feeling"; and wild 

 cherry extracts often appear in doctors' pre- 

 scriptions as a tonic. The cherry brandies and 

 cordials of commerce and of home production 

 are made from the little, wild, black cherry. 

 Cherry bounce, the old-fashioned beverage of 

 story books, is also made from this cherry of 

 many uses. M.S. 



CHERRY LAUREL, law'rel, a well-known 

 ornamental evergreen shrub, a native of Asia 

 Minor, but now cultivated in Europe and 

 America. It is commonly called laurel, but it 

 must not be confused with the sweet bay or 

 other tree species of laurel. The leaves, which 

 are thick and leathery, and sometimes the 

 scentless flowers, yield the poison laurel-water 

 which is like the oil of bitter almonds. The 

 stone-fruit is round and shiny. 



CHERSONESUS, kursone'sus, from the 

 Greek chersos, meaning dry land, and ncsos, 

 meaning island, ia a name which the ancient 

 Greeks applied to several peninsulas. Three 

 of the most important of these were the Thra- 

 cian Chersonesus, northwest of the Hellespont, 

 corresponding to the peninsula of the Darda- 

 nelles; the Tauric Chersonesus, the peninsula 

 formed by the Black Sea and the Sea of Aaov, 

 now called the Crimea; and the Cimbrian 

 Chersonesus, the modern Jutland. 



CHER'UB, or CHERUBIM, cher'ubim. A 

 cherub is one of an order of angelic beings, 

 ranking next to the order of seraphim. The 

 form cherubim is the plural of cherub. The 

 cherubim are believed to excel in knowledge, 

 the word cherub being derived from the He- 

 brew word to know. In art they are usually 

 represented by heads, with one, two or three 

 pairs of wings, and in the earliest religious 

 paintings their faces are thoughtful and intel- 

 ligent. The early painters also held strictly 

 to a prescribed color scheme when representing 

 cherubim in a Glory of Angels, a Glory being 

 a portrayal of the several orders of angels in 

 circles. The inner circle, that of the seraphim, 

 is red, the symbol of love; the second, that 

 of cherubim, is blue, emblem of light and 

 knowledge. This law of color was observed 

 in the oldest pictures, in illuminated manu- 

 scripts and in stained glass. Later artists, 

 however, gave themselves more freedom in 

 representing angelic beings, a change notice- 

 able in such celebrated paintings as Raphael's 

 Sistine Madonna and Perugino's Coronation o\ 

 the Virgin. 



In the Raphael picture the Madonna is de- 

 scending from clouds composed of heads of 

 thousands of cherubim, which are shown in a 

 golden-tinted background. In the Pcrugino 

 picture the floating cherubim have wings of 

 various colors, blending in an exquisite har- 

 mony of tones. The aspect of serious medita- 

 tion noticeable in the cherubic faces painted 

 by the more reverent artists is beautifully illus- 

 trated in the two famous cherubim at the base 

 of the Sistine Madonna, and in the cherubim 

 in Perugino's Assumption oj the Virgin. See 

 MADONNA. 



CHERUBINI, karoo be' nc, MARIA Lnai 

 CARLO ZENOBIO SALVATORE (1760-1842), an Ital- 

 ian musical composer, excelling especially in 

 sacred music. He was born at Florence, and 

 commenced his musical studies at the age of 

 six, under his father's instructions. At nine 

 he began to study under eminent masters and 



